Posts tagged Retail
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Plus ça change, NIMBYs
Yesterday I discussed Safeway’s plans to rebuild the Georgetown (“Social”) Safeway from a suburban style with a parking lot in front into an urban style fronting the sidewalk and (too much) parking behind. Transbay Blog has similar story from the West Coast from the Safeway in the Rockridge area of Oakland, California. There’s the same terrible suburban… Keep reading…
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From Social Safeway to Sidewalk Safeway
Georgetown’s “Social Safeway” is interested in mending its pedestrian-unfriendly, suburban-styling ways. According to the hard-to-link-to Dupont Current (part one and two of the article), Safeway is looking to replace its one-story market that’s behind a large parking lot with a two-story building at the sidewalk’s edge. The first floor… Keep reading…
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New walkable Giant vs. “late commercial moderne”
Here are notes (MS Word) from Wednesday’s meeting about the Wisconsin Ave Giant. “The group of people that came out seemed rather evenly divided between those who wanted Giant to stop delaying and just build the new store and those who wanted to have Giant do things that they simply will not do,” such as make a smaller store or build even more parking than the development… Keep reading…
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The man who would fix 17th
MetroWeekly profiles new DCCA president Joel Lawson, whose top priority is fixing 17th Street. He’ll be paying particular attention to the long-standing conflicts between residents and businesses to ensure that residents can sleep and business want to stay on 17th. Keep reading…
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What would you like to see?
Ryan Avent has been doing a good reader Q&A series. He answers what are the obstacles to high-speed rail, how to fight back against O’Toole anti-transit types, whether Zipcar will survive, and more. Keep reading…
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Making upper Georgia Avenue a great street
The DC Council held a hearing this afternoon on the Upper Georgia Avenue Great Streets Plan. Georgia Avenue is a long, continuous commercial corridor with some successful shops, some vacant ones, and many in between. Keep reading…
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Gateway Market plans inward-facing retail
Gateway Market is a proposed development at the corner of Florida Ave and Morse St NE, a vacant lot next to DC’s largest active food wholesale market, Florida Market. Frozen Tropics and Richard Layman object to the project. Keep reading…
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Wisconsin Ave Giant is a great project
I’ve been picking on bad projects a fair amount lately, so it’s time to highlight a good project: the proposed redevelopment of the Wisconsin Avenue Giant in western Cleveland Park. This project will replace bland, single-story buildings and large surface parking lots along Wisconsin Ave and Idaho Ave with an appropriately scaled mixed-use project that will engage… Keep reading…
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Afternoon roundup
Rail isn’t just for crazy lefties anymore: Two leaders of “centrist” Democratic policy organizations say high-speed rail is the solution to air traffic woes in key corridors. We know Mary Peters disagrees and Barack Obama agrees. Via Yglesias. Keep reading…
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Check cashing anthropologicomedy
If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance you’ve never used a check cashing place. Here’s a great video showing in an amusing way the way check cashing stores operate and the problems in poor communities that lack banks. Keep reading…