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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing GDS is doing will make pizza places or the mattress store disappear.  And if Starbucks, Panera, and Coffee Nature don't offer sufficiently upscale Chai Lattes already, why does GDS assume it'll attract a more luxe establishment?  [/quote]

Yeah, I bought a mattress at one of those mattress stores recently.  Much better than trekking to the suburbs.  As long as the mattress stores stay out of my NW DC neighborhood.  Tenley has always been a middle class zone of NW DC, what with Sears anchoring the hill and the radio towers.[/quote]

The problem in Tenleytown isn't particularly the mattress stores or GDS, and nothing that GDS proposes to do with affect  three things:  First, there is Washington Psychiatric, which has become a psycho ward housing sometimes violent offenders who are sent there by the DC corrections department in lieu of being locked up in the DC jail.  In recent months, two inmates escaped into the surrounding residential area.  (Both were captured later.)  The second is the grimey string of convenience stores and fast food joints south of Tenley Circle.  Both attract rats and the convenience stores in particular create a problem of litter that blows around for blocks.  The third is the group of aggressive panhandlers who congregate in the narrow space at the top of the escalator by Best Buy, without any apparent interference by the police.[/quote]

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