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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Dancing Crab will close instead of renovating...
http://tenleytowndc.org/2015/08/31/dancing-crab-closed/[/quote]

Sad.  Another DC icon, lost to transplants.[/quote]

If you think transplants are killing a restaurant in Tenleytown, native or not, you don't know DC.
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Come on Jeff.  You can't be that naive.  Surely you're aware of rents being driven up.... ya know, gentrification- all that business? [/quote]

You are talking about Tenleytown. Tenleytown was gentrified just after the Civil War when the blacks were driven out of Fort Reno.
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And it's still in the process of gentrification.  The social structure that existed there for years is being driven out as the rents go up.  People who aren't from DC are moving in, making that part of the city unlivable/rentable for people who have lived there for decades.   [/quote]

I think after more than 100 years, you don't call it a "process of gentrification" anymore. Moreover, Tenleytown, along with Cleveland Park, is sort of NIMBY-central in DC. Nobody is being driven out by newcomers. Not to mention, an increasingly-wealthy clientele would help a seafood restaurant stay open. You will have to find someone other than transplants to blame for this one.

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