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[quote=Anonymous]"What Tenleytown neighbors had better not forget is that, if GDS plans to build along Wisconsin Ave. are frustrated, it can always sell the property to a third party developer and make a tidy profit. A new developer won't have the same incentive as the school necessarily to try to be a good neighbor to the community. It will have every incentive to to completely max out the development potential of the site, and will probably have the support of the mayor's office to do so."

Ask the folks who spent more than 12 years getting Cathedral Commons approved how that worked out. Once the neighbors get organized - if they are not already - they will argue that a developer is using the school as a public relations ploy.  Whether you or pro or anti development on Wisconsin Avenue and the GDS project itself, it will be increasingly difficult to argue that GDS's involvment makes it more neighborly. From the neighbor's point of view, it's just another big construction project.  The school, with its' hard start at the beginning of the day and at the end, is like having a factory in the neighborhood in terms of traffic. Plus, condos and stores have a more spread out traffic pattern and would be easier for the neighborhood to absorb.  So one could argue that it would be easier to approve and to swallow if the school was not involved. [/quote]

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