Anonymous wrote:This is sarcastic, right?

Anonymous wrote:Wow, that's a game-changer!! SO visionary.

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This is sarcastic, right?

Anonymous wrote:Wow, that's a game-changer!! SO visionary.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does further the GDS social justice mission by providing funding for financial aid. In addition, the project likely will include some designated affordable housing units. And by adding to the overall stock of housing in DC, the project will exert downward pressure on rents/prices, thus enhancing overall availability and hopefully affordability.

Not to mention all those new kids who will be in-bound for Janney. I hope they plan something to help with added pressure put on the public school system!

Do you have a problem with students who live in affordable units coming to Janney?

Anonymous wrote:surprise, the developer 'advising' the school is a board member

That's what being a real "Macher" is all about.

Anonymous wrote:It does further the GDS social justice mission by providing funding for financial aid. In addition, the project likely will include some designated affordable housing units. And by adding to the overall stock of housing in DC, the project will exert downward pressure on rents/prices, thus enhancing overall availability and hopefully affordability.

Not to mention all those new kids who will be in-bound for Janney. I hope they plan something to help with added pressure put on the public school system!

It does further the GDS social justice mission by providing funding for financial aid. In addition, the project likely will include some designated affordable housing units. And by adding to the overall stock of housing in DC, the project will exert downward pressure on rents/prices, thus enhancing overall availability and hopefully affordability.

surprise, the developer 'advising' the school is a board member

Wow, that's a game-changer!! SO visionary.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting article on the school's plans to densify the neighborhood with 340 new residences and mixed-use retail.

http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/tenleytown_schools_expansion_includes_mixed-use_buildings_with_340_units/9892

You can see in the plans the symbolic gateway and viewshed from Wisconsin Ave. to GDS.

Interesting article on the school's plans to densify the neighborhood with 340 new residences and mixed-use retail.

http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/tenleytown_schools_expansion_includes_mixed-use_buildings_with_340_units/9892

Anonymous wrote:Will the mixed-use be tax producing for the city? Or will GDS own it and shelter the income to the city using its non-profit status?

If there are no asks from the city and everything is matter of right, then the school can do what it wants. If there are asks, then it changes the equation.

By definition the school expansion will be require a special zoning exception. Even if the Wisconsin Avenue development is a "matter of right" -- and my guess is that the school will seek the flexibility of a PUD which requires review -- the mandatory school special exception process will give the community some leverage over the Wisconsin Avenue development piece.

Will the mixed-use be tax producing for the city? Or will GDS own it and shelter the income to the city using its non-profit status?

If there are no asks from the city and everything is matter of right, then the school can do what it wants. If there are asks, then it changes the equation.

I don't know why people are carping about the campus project. GDS plan to use its own resources to do a huge favor for the neighborhood and for DC, by replacing a block that is frankly faded and downright scuzzy with vibrant mixed use, tax-producing, upscale retail and residential.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine to make that argument, but then don't turn it around to some sort of prestige associated with Wisconsin Avenue - one that only GDS people have made.

And that the new campus will address supposed security issues and enable GDS to "compete" for presidential children/grandchildren ("Obama Loss Syndrome")

You're back. If you knew anything about security, then you would already know that the revised campus may still be deemed too porous by the Secret Service. Being on one campus however, ay be seen as a benefit. Your comments separate the wheat from the chaff.

Please circulate the Secret Service's advance on the future GDS campus. Many of us have questions about it, such as: will it have a cafetaria?; will the sports fields be regulation size; will lower school kids be mixing with upper school kids?; what will the traffic pattern be?

Eventually someone needed to teach this PP how to spell "cafeteria".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's fine to make that argument, but then don't turn it around to some sort of prestige associated with Wisconsin Avenue - one that only GDS people have made.

And that the new campus will address supposed security issues and enable GDS to "compete" for presidential children/grandchildren ("Obama Loss Syndrome")

You're back. If you knew anything about security, then you would already know that the revised campus may still be deemed too porous by the Secret Service. Being on one campus however, ay be seen as a benefit. Your comments separate the wheat from the chaff.

Please circulate the Secret Service's advance on the future GDS campus. Many of us have questions about it, such as: will it have a cafetaria?; will the sports fields be regulation size; will lower school kids be mixing with upper school kids?; what will the traffic pattern be?