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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No so.   The jewelry stores, the watch repair, the shoe store, the arts district, the kids activities.  What happens to them?[/quote]

...they continue what they have been doing for the past 2 years?[/quote]
They continue to struggle. Including the shoe store. [/quote]

The shoe store is struggling because it's no longer possible for one car at a time to drive and park at the metered space in front of the store?[/quote]
Yes. The shoe store is struggling because no one can see it to know it exists unless you are aimlessly walking around, which would not be a shoe store customer in any case.[/quote]

But people aimlessly driving around would be shoe store customers?[/quote]
The sheer ignorant arrogance of people like you bothers me the most. Here is what the business community, who support anything that makes them more money had to say about Woodmont Avenue.

“Federal Realty Investment Trust, which owns the buildings along Woodmont, said in a letter to Elrich that being able to drive by a highly visible destination is the most important element of successful street retail, which is the expectation for retail stores and restaurants on Woodmont Avenue.”[/quote]

FRIT can say all kinds of things, but we don't necessarily have to believe everything they say. Retailers generally tend to vastly overestimate the proportion of their customers who arrive by car. [/quote]
FRIT is a sophisticated company with $8 billion in assets focused on solely on maximizing profits of their real estate holdings. They couldn’t care less about bike lanes, they only care about profit. The fact that you’re so arrogant as to presume that you know better than them is astonishing. What’s your qualifications to challenge them? [/quote]

They are welcome to make whatever profit-maximizing legal decisions they want to make for the properties they own. However, they don't own Norfolk Avenue. Norfolk Avenue is a public street.[/quote]
It’s going to be a fun street when all of the restaurants and shops eventually close and it gets taken over by vagrants. I am not sure how that’s in the public interest. I assume that you fancy yourself an “urbanist” but you don’t even have a clue about the history of the failure of “pedestrian malls” in this country. I’m not sure how you survive on a day to day basis being so utterly arrogant while eschewing actual knowledge and expertise. Good luck in life![/quote]

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