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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a big market for small cheap apartments in downtown DC. Well designed studios with plenty of built-ins of 300 sq feet that rent for $1500/month would be snapped up by tons of biz travelers, Hill interns, WB and IMF staff on short-term contracts, US and diplomatic staff on TDYs, someone who wants a pied-a-terre, etc. [/quote]

+1 and they would make easy temp rentals for things like Inauguration and the large scale events in DC that bring in tons of people, of which their are many. The convention center is located downtown and easily walkable or a short metro ride from most of the urban core. Plus with the Caps/Wizards staying in the city, that's another major venue.

There is tons of demand for residences/temp rentals/hotel rooms downtown, but it needs to be exploited. And for everyone who complains that no one wants to live or shop downtown, look at City Center -- it's very high end and very successful. Those restaurants have weeks long waits for tables at times, the cafes are often packed, the high end retail does well, and the Conrad hotel does good businesses with both guests and their eating/drinking venues.

This is really a problem of re-allocating resources, not giving up on the downtown in a major metropolitan area that also continues to boom economically and has a huge number of of wealthy and UMC residents. There is absolutely no reason the downtown can't better serve the existing economy in ways that would benefit everyone (except drug dealers and car jackers). This is a jobs program, too -- construction, hospitality, restaurant service, entertainment. Workers and small businesses would benefit.[/quote]

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