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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all comparing apples with oranges. MoCo in the 80’s was at the peak of building out their many successful developments while NoVa was a bunch of rednecks and farm land. Obviously there will be more economic activity during a building boom than after stabilization. Virginia is just a few decades behind Maryland and so they are going through their 80’s right now. They are in different phases of growth. How can everyone miss that obvious reality? It’s the same reason why Florida and the south is growing faster (empty land) than the northeast where even the development of the suburbs date back hundreds of years. [/quote]

You can still have lots of economic activity after you’ve built out by tearing down old stuff and upgrading it with better stuff and building up. MoCo’s anti business climate over the last 30 years is to blame, not lack of land. There are whole tracks of housing in the county that are way past their tear down date but no one is upgrading it because there’s no economic development. Downtown Silver Spring should be attracting business not apartments. White flint is a disaster and on and on. It’s not phase of growth. 
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