Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2023

Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. WTOP reports that DC and MoCo are working to create a business improvement district to help improve the area (" Friendship Heights BID? DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it "). So I was missing the point.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee. There are six large city parks.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades. Plus the real problem in Anacostia is a broken micro-economy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail. Not mixed commercial use.

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