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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope that Macwood stays forever, particularly if the alternative is someone like her last opponent, Mr Ward.[/quote]

And continue to see the commercial strip whither away to nothing but CVS and Walgreens, each with 15 storefronts.[/quote]

Cleveland Park's challenge is that there are many other competing retail districts, when 20 or 25 years ago, today's trendy areas were sketchy areas.  CP, just like Chevy Chase DC, in today's DC economy is unlikely to be a major retail/entertainment district.  Another challenge is that real estate investors want national tenants or local chains with deep balance sheets, which allows investors to finance and more easily monetize their portfolio.

What CP can do is make its streetscape more attractive (a DC project that will start soon) and have more focus activities to bring people to shop there, like the farmer's market, as well as develop more of a neighborhood brand identity (historic Cleveland Park, Art Deco architecture, zoo, etc.).  The new library and Uptown theater help.

That said, the CP commercial area is way more successful than Van Ness, which has a lot more empty storefronts despite being a busier Metro station with "high rise" residential and commercial buildings surrounding it.  [/quote]

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