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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot depends on where this school is located. If it's downtown, I'm not interested in taking a kindergartner on the metro to school everyday if I can walk to an ES on the Hill.[/quote]

May not be convenient for you [b]but a lot of parents work downtown[/b] and would be very interested in dropping kids off at a downtown location.  I can walk to work from BASIS's main building.[/quote]

Really? Then why are so many downtown buildings empty?[/quote]

Do you not understand the phrase "a lot"?

Vacancy rate in downtown DC for Q4 2022 was 17.33%.  That means that 82.67% of buildings are occupied.  And that percentage has and will continue to increase.

Sure, there is a lot more vacancy than there used to be (and rents/real estate prices have gone down somewhat) but[i] a lot[/i] of people (including [i]a lot[/i] of Basis parents) work downtown.[/quote]

According to this article, it is a little higher. More importantly, it states DC has one of the highest rates in the country. While this might be on paper, in reality, the downtown area appears dead. The workers have not returned. At the moment it is tourists and school trips that make the downtown seem alive.

Parents find BASIS attractive for many reasons. Location is one of them as it allows students from all 8 wards to attend without too much of a commute.[/quote]

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