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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has been pushing Federal agencies out of the city center into NE and SE, to areas where there are no restaurants or retail shops (and often, no transit nearby).  While this was intended to gentrify those areas, in fact it just encouraged Feds to brown bag their lunch and to telework as much as possible even pre-covid.

Office space has also been massively overbuilt in the larger DMV area, for probably 10 years pre-covid.  (Not converting those to in-person school spaces in 2020 was a huge missed opportunity.)

Feds may be a convenient scapegoat, but even if you could bring every DC-based Federal employee into the city every day it would not reverse these long-term issues.  [/quote]
I would only disagree with the statement that moving the Feds out into NE and SE was primarily to promote economic development. I think it was first and foremost about promoting developers, because these were the areas where large tracts of developable land could be acquired (although it does create a community benefit of putting an office building where a parking lot and tire shop used to be) and secondarily I believe they thought moving the dowdy Feds to the peripheral areas would free up downtown for more upscale development, like CityCenterDC.[/quote]

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