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No, wrong again.  The original 1999 plan had a single entrance close to the parking structure.  Any other doors were Potemkin ones.  The agreed-upon design with Mayor Williams' office and the office of planning did have separate entrances on Wisconsin, but Giant signed and then walked away from it.  Throughout, Giant largely insisted on having just one door to the store, citing security reasons (in Cathedral Heights, no less).  Even today, there's just one entrance, which feels like a tunnel.  The whole project looks like quick, modest ROI bet that a developer would put up in a marginal part of town, not as a built-to-last addition to one of the city's most established real estate markets.[/quote]

You are as bad as KellyAnne Conway. The openings were absolutely real. There were absolutely real openings. Please look at the 1999 Elevation entitled "Macomb - Woodley Shops, Wisconsin Avenue Elevation."

The Chair of the ANC at the time has the drawings in her possession if you want to see them, or they should be at the ANC office.

The reason it doesn't possess the affordable housing and architectural detail you pine for now is because of the delays you and your neighbors inflicted on the property owner for 15 years.

Ironically, the original proposal that you fought was only for the south side parcel and had NO housing included.

So now you complain that there wasn't enough affordable housing.

HINT: had you said at the time, that you would support the PUD with the parking garage if you included 3 stories of affordable housing on top, the project would have been completed by 2001.[/quote]

It seems that Greater Greater Washington, the mouthpiece of Big Development, has taken over this website.  This is exactly what a developer would propose, put the affordable units on top of the parking garage.  It's no secret that the affordable units in many projects are relegated to the margins, next to the loading dock and so forth.  [/quote]

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