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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Out: storefronts and bricks and mortar stores

In: high density urban living and restaurants / eateries[/quote]

Yes! They need to turn this vacant office space into housing ASAP.  [b]People would gladly live downtown[/b] and then some of the shops/restaurants/life will come back.  [/quote]

Yeah, no thanks. I like my quiet yard and my trees and my front porch swing and my fishpond in the backyard. You can keep the living downtown, with the teenage carjackers, free range crazy homeless, tent encampments and urine and fecal stench. That’s all you. [/quote]

I also do not want to live downtown, but the popularity of neighborhoods like Navy Yard and the Wharf for residential (largely for young professionals, most of whom appear to have a lot of money to burn) indicate that there is absolutely a market for this kind of housing. You have to invest in making it nice, which means being willing to clear out homeless encampments and prosecute crime. Which we should be doing anyway.

Even if I don't want to live in the downtown core, I think we'd all benefit from having a downtown that was economically healthy. I do not want to live in a dying city -- I don't want DC to become Baltimore with sky high taxes paired with terrible city services, and struggling to get economic investment. For this reason I'm very much in favor of revitalizing downtown with an eye towards residential, entertainment, and public spaces. And I will happy come in from my house and spend money in a neighborhood like that (as I presently do in Navy Yard, the Wharf, Union Market, Georgetown, etc.) provided I can feel safe and it's actually got something to offer me.

DC needs a mayor like Fenty, who understood that economic investment is central to a city's well being and was willing to go the distance to get companies to invest. Bowser sucks at this.[/quote]

Bowser is no different than Fenty. In this case, it was the people working for Fenty, some of whom were part of Bowser's early years. At this point, she has burned through that brain-power and is left with third-tier administrators. She should never have been elected to a third term. Fenty was no visionary, and neither is Bowser.[/quote]

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