Anonymous
Post 02/27/2024 15:08     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
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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.


So-called "trophy buildings" are poor market barometers. Top tier commercial space is still competitive. The problem is high vacancy rates for lower tiered buildings and commercial spaces.


No, it isn't. The entire market is hurting.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2024 13:35     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?



As someone in that area 2-3 times a week, where is the drug market? Work has been tough lately and I could use an upper, a downer, or really just anything.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2024 13:12     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.


So-called "trophy buildings" are poor market barometers. Top tier commercial space is still competitive. The problem is high vacancy rates for lower tiered buildings and commercial spaces.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2024 13:05     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.


So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).


Good point.

Gee, thanks BLM! /s


You clearly have a different agenda by mentioning BLM. Move to VA already. If you think progress has been erased, then you weren't here in the 90s.


Was here in the 90s. Crime is more random now, happens during the daytime in any neighborhood and with witnessed around. Carjacking was not an issue at all until the last few years.


Even with car-jacking, although the city really needs to get a handle on that!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2024 13:04     Subject: DC Downtown Revitalization Plan Announced 2/26
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I feel like we just revitalized DC. I wonder how many times in my lifetime it will be revitalized. It’s like yo-yo dieting.


So much progress from the late 90s until 2019 was erased. Will take another 20 years to get back whenever rock bottom eventually comes (so far we’re sharpening the drill bits to dig further).


Good point.

Gee, thanks BLM! /s


You clearly have a different agenda by mentioning BLM. Move to VA already. If you think progress has been erased, then you weren't here in the 90s.



No one is moving. But we are changing things