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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The right place for a shelter should have been one of the redeveloping buildings in Tenleytown, but since the Mayor didn't vet any of the options and had the original Ward 3 site shot down by other NIMBYs, then it is what it is.[/quote]

Which one of those buildings are owned by the city?

And you probably aren't aware of this but TT already has a couple of significant homeless services there - which is why I would not have opposed locating the shelter in TT and think the people from CP and McLean gardens who are outraged about this are a bunch of snowflakes.[/quote]

The biggest losers (and whiners) with Helter-Shelter are the anchor investors in the Cathedral Commons town center.  Although they had a lot of political connections in the last administration that allowed them to get their building approvals easily, they apparently don't have the same connections to Bowser and the current council.  So now they watch as their development investment (where they try to charge $9000 monthly to rent a townhouse) loses value as the high-rise homeless shelter rises directly across the street.  And once the really upscale Wegmans center planned at Fannie Mae opens, and with the homeless shelter next door, Cathedral Commons will seem shabby by comparison.[/quote]

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