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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep in mind that renting to banks and WaWas are not necessarily in the LL's best interest either with new projects where you are trying to choose retail tenants who will be an amenity to the tenants.  That's why new multi-family developments (think Park Van Ness on Conn., or City Ridge and the Wegman's) generally have better retail---at least at the beginning when they are trying to attract residential tenants to the apartments.  But the blocks of small 1920ish commercial?  Those are usually family-owned, with no debt, and usually no one owner owns all the lots in the block so redevelopment is unlikely, even if such properties weren't already subject to historic designations, which many are.  Those owners are going after the highest rent they can get.  [/quote]

This makes sense, but I feel like there was this approach in Columbia Heights and now all the retail is gone. I am worried about pegging density to vibrant retail and dining. Without some planning and tax codes to guide it, I think you eventually end up with wawa, banks and empty storefronts. The city needs to look at this, city wide instead of thinking density will "solve" everything.[/quote]

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