Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 19:09     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote: The suckers are self-styled Millennial Hipster Urbanists


I am not sure anyone has ever described themselves as a hipster and not that many Snake People call themselves "millennials."

Also, U Street is over.

Do even lift, bro?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 18:07     Subject: Big GDS news
Seriously, what has the delay cost GDS? And what is the lower revenue stream from the shrinking project mean for future financial projections.

This can't help admissions
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:42     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Losing the Safeway, having to drive somewhere for middle-grocery shopping, having dead space on Wisconsin Avenue and having to deal with the car-pooling and suburban dopers, yes, pretty much a net loss.



Long time real estate person here. Expanding the presence of a strong school has never been a net negative for a neighborhood. Never. Just ask the property owners in Edgemoor, Bethesda. It might be a nuisance in the short term, but the rewards are tangible on the back end.


I can understand the presence of a good public school raising property values, but don't see how the general population benefits with a private school. Is there a private school near Edgemoor in Bethesda?


Sidwell Friends lower. But not for long.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:41     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Losing the Safeway, having to drive somewhere for middle-grocery shopping, having dead space on Wisconsin Avenue and having to deal with the car-pooling and suburban dopers, yes, pretty much a net loss.



Long time real estate person here. Expanding the presence of a strong school has never been a net negative for a neighborhood. Never. Just ask the property owners in Edgemoor, Bethesda. It might be a nuisance in the short term, but the rewards are tangible on the back end.


I can understand the presence of a good public school raising property values, but don't see how the general population benefits with a private school. Is there a private school near Edgemoor in Bethesda?







Actually, yes there is, at least for the next couple of years.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:41     Subject: Big GDS news
Actually, yes there is, at least for the next couple of years.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:41     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:gds board needs to be overhauled. Time for new school leadership. Time for a new plan. How much is the planning and application part of this project costing the school?


It's yooge, as Trump (and the Team of Aces) might say.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:39     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Losing the Safeway, having to drive somewhere for middle-grocery shopping, having dead space on Wisconsin Avenue and having to deal with the car-pooling and suburban dopers, yes, pretty much a net loss.



Long time real estate person here. Expanding the presence of a strong school has never been a net negative for a neighborhood. Never. Just ask the property owners in Edgemoor, Bethesda. It might be a nuisance in the short term, but the rewards are tangible on the back end.


I can understand the presence of a good public school raising property values, but don't see how the general population benefits with a private school. Is there a private school near Edgemoor in Bethesda?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 17:34     Subject: Big GDS news
gds board needs to be overhauled. Time for new school leadership. Time for a new plan. How much is the planning and application part of this project costing the school?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 16:49     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:The team of aces are both cunning masterminds and total rubes done in by a couple of anonymous posters.

The same posters who thought GDS's plan was sending people to sleep with BZA members, even though they don't need to hit up the BZA. lol.


The past is prologue.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 16:09     Subject: Big GDS news
Ya, that's it.

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 15:47     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:Right, I am sure the Team of Ace$ are helping GDS out of the goodness of their hearts. Is everyone at Greatergreater Washington this much of a sucker?


Some just are suckers. G-G-W is the amen corner for anything-goes development interests in D.C. The suckers are self-styled Millennial Hipster Urbanists who believe that, if only Washington would abolish the height limit and redevelop enough neighborhoods into mixed-use generic sameness, then upscale flats on U Street will magically become affordable for them so that they can move out of their mother’s basement.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 12:33     Subject: Big GDS news
Right, I am sure the Team of Ace$ are helping GDS out of the goodness of their hearts. Is everyone at Greatergreater Washington this much of a sucker?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 11:21     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:They haven't been upfront about how the project is wired for JBG or the ownership of the shell companies that control the land. How much of an interest does JBG own in the land that GDS wants to entitle?


Care to share your evidence with the class?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 11:17     Subject: Big GDS news
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Basically GDS is fronting for the developer group here. If the developer owned the Wisconsin site outright and were the applicant, it could not seek "transfer" of the density from the campus/Safeway site to Wisconsin.


Sure they could, if the developer were building the school, and running the PUD.

Hey, at least you're admitting that the PUD isn't actually adding density to the site.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2016 11:12     Subject: Big GDS news
The team of aces are both cunning masterminds and total rubes done in by a couple of anonymous posters.

The same posters who thought GDS's plan was sending people to sleep with BZA members, even though they don't need to hit up the BZA. lol.