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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t seem like the big Bloomingdales mall thing is doing well. The fancy retail strip was a flop. Maybe they should turn the Chevy Chase pavilion back into woods. [/quote]

They should turn every building there into high end condos and apartments with retail on the street level and include 3br units for families who want to get in the desirable school zones nearby.

They should move Bloomingdale’s and Saks up to the White Flint site and turn it into a nicer town center than Pike and Rose. Think Tyson’s Galleria mixed with Bethesda Row. Rework the I-495 intersection nearby to allow eastbound traffic to go up Wisconsin / Rockville Pike without doing a U Turn while you’re at it.

Problem solved and everyone wins. No one wants to go to department stores and deal with that traffic near Friendship Heights, but high end condos and apartments would do great because of Metro proximity and great schools. White Flint needs to be redeveloped.[/quote]

Those desirable school zones are already overcrowded/overcapacity.  Do you suggest that a new school be put in the cheesecake factory property?  [/quote]

You have a point but we can’t just not build housing because we also can’t build schools, for some odd unspoken reason. We need to build housing, and schooos. MacArthur HS will help, but they really should use the lord and Taylor site, or somewhere else in upper NW for a third high school / middle school, and continue to march forward with housing. And yes, three bedroom units should be a priority even if the city has to incentivize it with tax incentives, as the last 10 years have brought a lot of 1br and 2br inventory online but very little in terms of family sized units. They need to ditch vouchers as a policy to make family housing affordable, and use whatever levers they can to actually just build many more units for families. [/quote]

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