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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to attract people to live downtown with fewer and fewer amenities and commute much less of a consideration now. It feels like the area is reverting back to when I worked on weekends at my firm and you couldn’t even get a coffee bc nothing was open outside of M-F business hours. No one wants to live like that. [/quote]
I am not sure what people are talking about. Downtown is just fine. The empty storefronts have just opened up a new frontier of “experience” exhibits which have been fantastic. While more neighbors are always welcome, especially neighbors who appreciate the dense, walkable living the downtown has to offer (which is unfortunately not enough of DC’s current residents who don’t want to live there), you fortunately don’t need to live downtown to enjoy the “Banksy Experience”, the “Friends Experience” or the “Office Experience”. Just need to install more bike lanes to make it easier for people to frequent these establishments to improve business and the economy.[/quote]

Yes, I agree it makes sense for DC to market itself as a rich and GenZ playground. It really makes no sense for anyone to pretend that federal employees play much of a role in the DC economy other than to benefit small businesses like food trucks or the 5 or so non-chain sandwich shops. I don't even think a majority of DC area feds even live in the city.[/quote]

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