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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think EOTR will ever gentrify like Shaw or NOMA. If it does, it’s 10-15 years away. Prices have gone up, yes, but they will level off. In 3-5 years there will be a generation of yuppies who moved to row houses and discover that it’s not enough room with kids. You’ll get another opportunity. [/quote]

I guess it depends on your definition of "like Shaw or NOMA," but you are either very right or very wrong.

If you meant it will never have the concentration of bars and restaurants and the like, you are absolutely right. There are very few places if any EOTR that have the density to support it even if the demographics here looked like Upper NW. If you want evidence of this, just look anywhere in upper NW: huge incomes and house values but all the retail is concentrated into corridors that are several blocks away from each other. That is what I imagine most places EOTR are going to look like in 10-15 years, though obviously not as upscale.

Now if you meant it will never have the income/racial makeup that Shaw or NOMA currently have, that I very much disagree with. Shaw currently has a median HHI of $84,000 and is 50% black, 30% white, 11% hispanic, and 7% asian.  I would be pretty shocked if many areas EOTR weren't comparable to that in a decade.[/quote]

buuuut big buildings are going up EOTR:

https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline/590/20012027_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Avenue
https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline/398/2255_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Avenue_SE
https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline/478/Reunion_Square

The buildings will increase density and residents will certainly support bars and restaurants..[/quote]

There are big buildings all over Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues, it doesn't change the fact that outside those corridors it's mostly single family and duplex homes, just like EOTR.

I'm not saying no bars and restaurants will ever come here, I'm just saying the development will never mimic developed areas in the urban core like Shaw and NOMA, and will instead mimic developed areas in the less dense regions like Tenleytown and Cleveland Park.

I'm also not saying there won't be any more dense areas at all, the intersection of Benning Rd and Minnesota Ave will certainly be a retail hub, as will the Historic Anacostia/St. Elizabeth's area, Congress Heights, Skyland, and the area around the Deanwood metro as well.  But outside those I think retail will be concentrated on Benning Rd, Minnesota Ave, Nannie Helen Burroughs, E. Capitol, Pennsylvania Ave, Good Hope Rd, MLK, Alabama Ave, and maybe a few others.

All in all I believe in 10 years time EOTR residents will have a huge increase in retail options, but it will never get to the point where every block has stores on it like Shaw or NOMA, the zoning would never allow it and the density would never support it.    [/quote]

I agree with the PP.  I don't expect EOTR to become the next Shaw or NOMA. There will be some growth within the areas listed previously.   It will take time but there a few beginnings...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/first-stand-alone-starbucks-east-of-anacostia-brings-both-excitement-and-worries-about-displacement/2017/10/22/adf0e6dc-b4e6-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.7053ffb819d5
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I love the growth in EOTR and could see all the nice cheaper condos gaining significant values within next 4-5 years. [/quote]

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