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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I prefer facadomizing to razing, but would prefer even more that the building remain pristine. Facadomizing gets pretty Disney/new Times Square pretty fast.[/quote]

2000 Pennsylvania Ave, "Red Lion Row," is an example of how facadomy is not historic preservation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Pennsylvania_Avenue#/media/File:2000Penn.jpg[/quote]

Yes they did this when I was a kid. I was thinking of this the other day because there is a last original townhouse people want GW (the owner) to "save" down.there and it's falling on deaf ears. Presumably something like this could work down there. However the Uptown is pristine. Whole block is. Why mess with a good thing. Don't get it. [/quote]

The National Register of Historic Places nomination documents state that the Uptown is part of the most intact, unified Art Deco commercial strip in Washington, DC.  Worth preserving, and not with 10 floor concrete and glass boxes on top.  [/quote]

Ok, so you prefer that it just sit empty for the next 100 years? That will be GREAT for Cleveland Park.[/quote]

If the Uptown parcel's height is limited to 40-45 feet (which is the limit under current zoning), then the theater owners may have an incentive to sell to a nonprofit that wants to structure an Avalon-type solution.  It wouldn't make economic sense under current zoning to redevelop the theater into housing and commercial

However, if the parcel is up zoned significantly, as Mary Cheh's comprehensive plan/FLUM change seems to faciliate so that the permissible height becomes 10 stories, then the outcome is very different.  The property owners would be fools not to sell the property for dense mixed-use development, or try to develop it themselves.  Indeed, the economic incentives for massive development become irresistible.  Keeping the Uptown as a theater/arts venue becomes visually impossible.

Thanks a lot, Mary Cheh.  You just cost the Washington community the Uptown.[/quote]

The Uptown is closed. Mary Cheh has nothing to do with the financial viability of a white elephant theater.[/quote]
You are deflecting from the point and being quite arrogant about it too, if I must say. [/quote]

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