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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's quite clear that Mary Cheh and her staff sold out to Big Development some time ago, and they don't value neighborhood character, green space or historic preservation very much.  During Cheh's meeting with a Northwest DC community group on the Comprehensive Plan amendments a few months ago, her chief of staff stunned everyone by stating that trying to preserve the iconic Uptown Theater wasn't worth the effort and then asserted that dense, mixed-use development at the Uptown "is exactly what we want there."  Cheh didn't correct him.[/quote]

The Uptown is already protected by historic preservation. I am guessing his point is that the use may no longer be viable. If that is the case, there are two solutions. Either it sits empty as a former theater that no one is able to run or, it gets adaptively reused into some other use.

Which do you prefer?[/quote]

How does an 8 - 10 floor building of upscale flats, rising from the Uptown's facade "protect" the Uptown?  But this is what Cheh and her staff seem to want.  The Upscale Flats at the Uptown wouldn't not longer be an iconic theater.  And it wouldn't be historic preservation.  It would be facadomy.[/quote]

This is what Cheh needs to spearhead- not flats. The Uptown should stay a theater, lecture space, music space, local shool.perfomancea etc . This article is about a community that saved it's jewelbox theater and uses it for that today.

"The smallest theatre in the world - Umbria" https://www.itinari.com/the-smallest-theatre-in-the-world-umbria-he54[/quote]

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