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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, CCDC. [/quote]

I would only disagree because Friendship Heights had tons more shops 20 years ago.

You had L&T, Hechts, Borders Books, Linens N Things, Neiman Marcus (yeah...not really a day-to-day store), an AMC 8 movie theatre, Loehmanns, TJ Maxx, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma...Sur La Table just a block down.

Yes, we now have a Bloomingdales and some upscale shops on the CC MD side, but FH was decimated by the Internet and Covid.

Let's hope the new Trader Joe's, Total Wine, new TJ Maxx and the new Mazza-replacement (ground floor retail, plus apartments on top) are the start of lots of great new things.[/quote]

You're speaking exclusively of retail and you're correct.  That is but one aspect of a neighborhood.

However, the residential streets are all "nicer" in that Casey Trees has added thousands of new trees in 20015 over the past 20 years.  DCDoT + Pepco have felled and/or trimmed the dying street oaks. Any last rental boarding house from 2005  has been coverted back to a SFH and repainted, re-roofed, relandscaped by the new SFH owners. Sidewalks have been installed.  Murch and Lafayette have new playgrounds.  Livingston Park has had multiple upgrades to the playground/ball field / spray park in the past 20 years. The city consistently picks up leaves when it says it will and consistently plows snow when it should -- something that was starting to improve by 2005 and has grown much more reliable.

I personally do not think the *people* who moved into the now-$2.9 million four-squares are "nicer" than the OG CCDC families who vacated the same homes after living there on two NPR salaries since 1970.  Not really close. [/quote]

I get it...but I specifically moved to CC DC to be near all the shops and restaurants that existed at FH in 2005...as well as to also be close to the Safeway and other shops/restaurants on CT Avenue.

I appreciate that a Whole Foods, Amazon Grocery...and a bit further away the Lidl and Wegmans have moved in...and soon the Trader Joe's.  The CT Avenue Safeway is soooo tired and needs a dramatic facelift.  I rarely shop there anymore because of the other grocery stores.[/quote]

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