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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The iconic theater is no longer economically viable. So it can either sit there as an art-deco husk, or it can be adaptiveley reused into something else.

Pick one.
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God forbid that the Uptown becomes another CVS.  But if it's an historic landmark in an historic district, aren't they prohibited from building anything on top of it??[/quote]

No, they are not prohibited from building top of it.

If it isn't viable as a movie theater, then what should happen with it?[/quote]

If the Uptown is historically landmarked, doesn't adding 5 or 6 floors on top of it alter the landmark?  How would that be allowed?[/quote]

Look at just about every building in the 14th Street, Shaw or Downtown historic districts. Pretty routine stuff.[/quote]

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