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Anonymous wrote:So there is an excavator working on the site. Is Donaldson Run getting the 36 unit townhouse?

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/07/12/owners-of-razed-broyhill-estate-seek-new-owner-developer-for-site-touting-up-to-36-missing-middle-units/

Oh of course they used the race card on this...

I doubt it had anything to do with race, rather the neighbors could tell just by talking to them and Googling them that they are slimy dirt bags

If this lot had potential, one of the many developers that have operated in Arlington for years would have bought it. You know the developers that work closely with the County and have been through countless permitting processes. The people who know that lots need to be graded - that you can’t just throw 36 units up on a hill. But these developers wouldn’t even touch it for 2.5 million. The people who bought it are delusional and completely out of their element trying to sell this parcel. No one wants it. And they are such two bit players they can’t front the money to develop it themselves. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.

Anonymous wrote:So there is an excavator working on the site. Is Donaldson Run getting the 36 unit townhouse?

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/07/12/owners-of-razed-broyhill-estate-seek-new-owner-developer-for-site-touting-up-to-36-missing-middle-units/

Oh of course they used the race card on this...

I doubt it had anything to do with race, rather the neighbors could tell just by talking to them and Googling them that they are slimy dirt bags

So there is an excavator working on the site. Is Donaldson Run getting the 36 unit townhouse?

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/07/12/owners-of-razed-broyhill-estate-seek-new-owner-developer-for-site-touting-up-to-36-missing-middle-units/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

That has to be BS, if workers who don’t live in Arlington think he’s a service worker, does he run around in overalls with a toolbox?

So your neighbors came over to greet the new residents and said “is the owner home” to your DH? Because neighbors don’t come to the house except when invited 99% of the time, at which point they know you.

Arlington progressives maybe racist, most people are, but they are even more afraid of being accused of being a racist and this is an obvious instance to not assume anything. Unless, of course, overalls, that would be a legit confusing scene.

I’m the PP. he works from home and basically wears home clothes all the time, so yes, when he is outside and delivery people come, service people come, they automatically assume he is also doing some type of work for me. And clearly you don’t live in Arlington. Our neighbors are nosy as hell and came over all the time when we were fixing up the house. But by “neighbors” I meant more generally people who live in our area/civic association but not immediately next door.

That said, whether the couple ever intended to live there or not, who knows. But the neighbors clearly behaved badly and I find it funny that they will never know with certainty whether they might have had a single family home in the ‘hood if only they had used manners.

Not PP. I mean I don’t feel bad for the neighbors because many of them were fine living next to a segregationist so long as it was a SFH. You’re entitled to your opinion but I don’t think that any of that happened to them. The wife drove to an empty house built before lead was banned that was being torn down with an infant and then decided “gee, let me take the baby on a walk in the neighborhood” and just immediately was microagressed? The husband, who unlike your husband isn’t working from home, decides to come hang out in the yard and while there the neighbor decides to walk the quarter of a mile to the top of the hill where the house is, despite the bottom of the property being blocked off with signs saying private property the whole time, just to insult him? I live nearby and walk my dog by there almost every day because it’s on the way to the trails and did not see anyone other than construction workers in hard hats the entire time. They probably saw what they thought was an opportunity to make money but maybe they were still planning on living in Arlington in a different neighborhood so wanted to have some fake excuse when really none was needed. Just look at the numbers there are no other families in the neighborhood that built a new SFH that paid that much for the site.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

That has to be BS, if workers who don’t live in Arlington think he’s a service worker, does he run around in overalls with a toolbox?

So your neighbors came over to greet the new residents and said “is the owner home” to your DH? Because neighbors don’t come to the house except when invited 99% of the time, at which point they know you.

Arlington progressives maybe racist, most people are, but they are even more afraid of being accused of being a racist and this is an obvious instance to not assume anything. Unless, of course, overalls, that would be a legit confusing scene.

I’m the PP. he works from home and basically wears home clothes all the time, so yes, when he is outside and delivery people come, service people come, they automatically assume he is also doing some type of work for me. And clearly you don’t live in Arlington. Our neighbors are nosy as hell and came over all the time when we were fixing up the house. But by “neighbors” I meant more generally people who live in our area/civic association but not immediately next door.

That said, whether the couple ever intended to live there or not, who knows. But the neighbors clearly behaved badly and I find it funny that they will never know with certainty whether they might have had a single family home in the ‘hood if only they had used manners.

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Anonymous wrote:Good for them making $7m.

They’re not making anywhere near that. The value of the land was already included in the original price when it sat and sat. The cost of removing the home and trees is not millions of dollars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

That has to be BS, if workers who don’t live in Arlington think he’s a service worker, does he run around in overalls with a toolbox?

So your neighbors came over to greet the new residents and said “is the owner home” to your DH? Because neighbors don’t come to the house except when invited 99% of the time, at which point they know you.

Arlington progressives maybe racist, most people are, but they are even more afraid of being accused of being a racist and this is an obvious instance to not assume anything. Unless, of course, overalls, that would be a legit confusing scene.

+1

They don’t go to peoples houses because they aren’t friendly. And also if you have seen the property the front door is very far from the street.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

Yes. And I don’t doubt that has happened to your husband. I’ve had unpleasant experiences as well. People calling the cops on my family members for “breaking into my home” (feeding the cats while I’m away) and I have been confused for my white passing child’s nanny etc. But for starters they never moved into the property and owned it for what a month before the article came out in which time the wife while walking along was confused for her kids nanny (despite her being hispanic and her husband also being darker skinned) and her husband is also confused for being a worker? Whole situation reminds me of Dave Chappelle’s joke about Jussie Smollett.

And just using common sense most people who build just a family home for their own use would not pay that kind of money for a year down in that neighborhood for a tear down (Lyon village I think is the only Arlington neighborhood where that really happens). I also am not against what they did as it’s their right to do with their property. But I just think it cheapens real experiences and I personally don’t believe them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington neighbors gave these people a hard time about possibly putting in multifamily units. Arlington voted for this kind of development, what did they expect? The hypocrisy is amazing. Even if the couple always planned to raze the house and flip it, so what. That's legal. So is building multiple units there.

Boo hoo. Elections have consequences. When will people finally wake up.

I guarantee you that the majority of people in Donaldson Run did not vote in favor of MMH judging by the activity on the their list serv and all the lawn signs.

The majority of voters who voted for MM were the renters in apartments dreaming of owning a tiny home (tm) on their ngo salary.

Developers were geniuses. Sell the smart village (density around transit which DID make sense), build huge high rises and then stack the voting age population with naive renters who believe they to can have the American dream if they only vote for MM. Trojan Horse on the long term residents of Arlington.

I love the way the anti-MMs spin a tale of gullible supporters, as though no one could look at the same facts and reach a different conclusion solely because they have different priorities.

PS The people who tear down old houses and put up new ones are "builders," not "developers." Please make a note of that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

That has to be BS, if workers who don’t live in Arlington think he’s a service worker, does he run around in overalls with a toolbox?

So your neighbors came over to greet the new residents and said “is the owner home” to your DH? Because neighbors don’t come to the house except when invited 99% of the time, at which point they know you.

Arlington progressives maybe racist, most people are, but they are even more afraid of being accused of being a racist and this is an obvious instance to not assume anything. Unless, of course, overalls, that would be a legit confusing scene.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington neighbors gave these people a hard time about possibly putting in multifamily units. Arlington voted for this kind of development, what did they expect? The hypocrisy is amazing. Even if the couple always planned to raze the house and flip it, so what. That's legal. So is building multiple units there.

Boo hoo. Elections have consequences. When will people finally wake up.

I guarantee you that the majority of people in Donaldson Run did not vote in favor of MMH judging by the activity on the their list serv and all the lawn signs.

The majority of voters who voted for MM were the renters in apartments dreaming of owning a tiny home (tm) on their ngo salary.

Developers were geniuses. Sell the smart village (density around transit which DID make sense), build huge high rises and then stack the voting age population with naive renters who believe they to can have the American dream if they only vote for MM. Trojan Horse on the long term residents of Arlington.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington neighbors gave these people a hard time about possibly putting in multifamily units. Arlington voted for this kind of development, what did they expect? The hypocrisy is amazing. Even if the couple always planned to raze the house and flip it, so what. That's legal. So is building multiple units there.

Boo hoo. Elections have consequences. When will people finally wake up.

What's your point? The people who voted for MM are fine with it. Two thumbs up for tearing down the old racist's house.

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If you live in Arlington you are on full notice that it is progressively governed and that missing middle incentives and other progressive programs are either currently present or will be. The neighbors can be completely up in arms all they want, and claim they didn't vote for it so NIMBY but the fact remains it's Arlington. So either move or deal.

I have empathy for them as I am in Alexandria which is basically the same as Arlington. The city council here just rubber stamps everything that is super progressive. We have the same programs and changes headed our way. And I have come to the conclusion there is zero I can do about it and have just relented to the city's fate. We will be moving once our kids leave the nest. It is what it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington neighbors gave these people a hard time about possibly putting in multifamily units. Arlington voted for this kind of development, what did they expect? The hypocrisy is amazing. Even if the couple always planned to raze the house and flip it, so what. That's legal. So is building multiple units there.

Boo hoo. Elections have consequences. When will people finally wake up.

What's your point? The people who voted for MM are fine with it. Two thumbs up for tearing down the old racist's house.

All of this, and boo-hoo back atcha to the post before yours.

I don't think this land lends itself to a huge multifamily development and I don't think they'll get $10 million, but yes I think lots of the neighbors are racist and good for the owners for getting out

Anonymous wrote:I’m a POC in the neighborhood and I knew it was BS when the middle eastern husband said he was confused for a lawn worker. People in this neighborhood are racist but they’re a very specific type of racist.

Really? Bc my non-white husband and I live a neighborhood over and he is frequently pissed by people assuming he is a service worker - both neighbors and other workers/strangers coming to the house.

Anonymous wrote:I just watched "the Family" on Netflix- this is that house right?

Nope. That's the Cedars on 24th Street.