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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love friendship heights but am increasingly worried.  I hope the lord and Taylor can hold on! I wish DC would put some resources toward attracting and keeping retail alive there.  [/quote]

I'm not sure I can think of a worse use for tax dollars than subsidizing Lord & Taylor.

Far more people now live EOTP, and they now have many more options for shopping that aren't so far away.  Even if the richest DC residents are still nearby, the balance of purchasing power that keeps stores in business has shifted. Meanwhile, NIMBYs prevent nearly anything from changing in nearby neighborhoods.

If people near Friendship Heights want nicer things, they should allow more homes to be built WOTP.[/quote]

Adding hundreds of micro apartments in millennial dormitories isn’t relevant here, GGW.  No one needs an Orange Theory and SweetGreen every 50 yards.  [/quote]

Then don't complain when your stores close.[/quote]

We miss and wanr replacements for Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, maybe Gucci, H & M ...  no one is pining for $27 hand crafted cocktails with ethically-sourced mint garnish in FH.   [/quote]

You're missing the point.  My dollars, and all the dollars of people EOTP who had little choice but to trek to FH, helped to support those places for years. Many of us didn't much like shopping in FH back then, either, but it was the best option we had.  Now there are more of us, with more dollars, and we no longer need or want to travel that far to access these same stores.  There are the same number of you, because you won't let any meaningful amounts of new housing be built anywhere nearby.  The balance of purchasing power has simply shifted.

Sorry to break your bubble, but you're more dependent on the Sweetgreen-eating riff-raff than you think.  This is all just evidence of it.[/quote]

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