Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:35     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?



I work downtown. I don't see open air drug markets.


From WP:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-mayor-resurrects-old-policy-to-target-open-air-drug-markets/ar-AA1jpACC

Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:34     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.


We are building out 45,000 square feet of office space in a trophy building downtown. Speak for yourself. Houses are still selling.


That is encouraging. Which neighborhood downtown? I'm guessing Penn Quarter?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 13:18     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?



I work downtown. I don't see open air drug markets.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 13:17     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.


We are building out 45,000 square feet of office space in a trophy building downtown. Speak for yourself. Houses are still selling.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:56     Subject: Re:DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
They should spend the money to paint murals.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:55     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:What are the specifics with this: "$31.5 million for public safety initiatives"


More “violence interrupters and $$ to “wrap around services” for underprivileged youth.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:07     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Nothing can happen in DC until they get crime under control -- throughout DC. Only then will companies, institutions, and home buyers want to invest again.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:07     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Boy, do we have a sock puppet on this thread or what?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:05     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Spend every single dollar of this proposal on increasing police officers and crime prevention.

The revitalization will happen organically once that's done.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:03     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
What are the specifics with this: "$31.5 million for public safety initiatives"
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 11:59     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
This it?

https://dmped.dc.gov/page/downtown

Bringing people back to Gallery Place with the open air drug market and crime seems very pie in the sky and putting the cart before the horse. Gallery Place Festival Plaza seems to be a reach to me. Unless the goal is to provide prey?

Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 11:53     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
The headline should be the $240 million decline in tax revenues.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 11:46     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
"Investing in the cultural relevance of Black Lives Matter plaza..."

Lots of buzzwords, not any of it is realistic without downtown becoming safer again.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 11:38     Subject: Re:DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 11:38     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26

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Anyone feel optimistic?