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Old 03-27-2013, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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Old 03-27-2013, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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DC will never be as 1% as good as Philly. It's just a boring government town with OK architecture (worse than Philly's)
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Old 04-04-2013, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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Why D.C. Finally Has a Chance to Fix Federal Triangle Southwest - Housing Complex
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Old 04-04-2013, 09:27 AM
 
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Philly is an urban city, yet I've never actually had any desire to live there. Strange. My desire for D.C. however has really exploded and I'm hoping to take a trip up there soon.
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Old 04-04-2013, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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The title of this thread is funny. "GOVERNMENT COMPLEX." How can a GOVERNMENT COMPLEX compete with anything?

"Hey, let's go down to the Government Complex this Friday. The new DOT building is way kewl!"
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Old 04-04-2013, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Shaw.
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He means SW DC, which was once a neighborhood, but was ripped apart in the '60s and '70s when the district declared eminent domain over everything.

(Someone asked where DC's White ethnic neighborhoods are--the SW west of 4.5 st once was).
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Old 04-04-2013, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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He means SW DC, which was once a neighborhood, but was ripped apart in the '60s and '70s when the district declared eminent domain over everything.

(Someone asked where DC's White ethnic neighborhoods are--the SW west of 4.5 st once was).
I know exactly what he's talking about. The use of eminent domain in that case came before the Supreme Court in 1954 in Berman v. Parker.
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Old 04-05-2013, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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In the Works: A Southwest BID - Housing Complex
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Old 04-05-2013, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Prince George's County, Maryland
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Just a point on the second link, this has been demoslihed and vacated currently a surface lot awaiting this; you actually grabbed this exact location pretty much.

American Commerce Center - Philadelphia
It's too bad about the ACC. I forgot why it was never built, used to follow its development since 2009 IIRC.
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Old 04-08-2013, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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It's too bad about the ACC. I forgot why it was never built, used to follow its development since 2009 IIRC.
The Economic crash killed it. Liberty Property Trust owns the lot now, so there is a bright future ahead for that lot.
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