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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are correct---loft conversions worked because they offered huge spaces, extremely high ceilings, big windows.  DC was never an industrial town so we don't have the types of warehouses, 19th and early 20th c mills, etc. that work for that sort of thing.  The only thing that was similar in DC was old school buildings and the city no longer wishes to sell those  off to  developers for conversions.  Late 20th c office buildings have 8 foot ceilings.  Mid block buildings have little natural light, the column layout results in long narrow dark units with low ceilings.  Sure, the city could create lousy units and make it all subsidized housing, but do people really want downtown DC to become one huge extremely low income housing project?   The working poor won't go for  those micro-units----they'd get bigger units and more natural light by staying out in the 1970s garden apartments in Langley Park.

If the feds won't send their workforce back to work, they should eliminate federal income tax for DC residents.  THAT would cause people to have an entirely new attitude towards downtown residential development and mitigate the disaster that downtown is slowly becoming.   Of course, we'd immediately become the United State equivalent of Monaco---housing prices would spike as the wealthy try to become DC residents.  [/quote]

What exactly will feds back in the office in DC do for the city? Do lines of people wearing shabby Kirkland non-iron shirts suddenly cause the homeless to move out to MD? Will the DC tax collections go way up off sales tax on an $8 burrito at Moe's?[/quote]

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