Prince George's community hopes for GSA 'game changer' to spur growth. (Temple Hills: lease, neighborhoods)

[EdwardA]

Areas around green line in Temple Hills desperate for federal agencies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...dc6_story.html

There are two words Temple Hills resident Leonard Gore hears from locals to describe the neighborhoods along Metro’s Green Line in Prince George’s County: “Old and tired.”

From Naylor Road to the final stop at Branch Avenue, the corridor is an aging but civically active community that has been planning and pining for one project, one little spark to trigger its long-awaited economic revitalization.

The past two decades have brought mostly disappointment. But two bids to build an office complex for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have renewed hopes that the economic renaissance the District is experiencing could spill over the border.

The project calls for 575,000 square feet of Metro-accessible office space and a 15-year lease in either the District, Crystal City, Pentagon City or Prince George’s County south of Route 4. It would bring more than 3,000 jobs and substantial property tax revenue to the winning jurisdiction.

[AeroGuyDC]

As long as Metro refuses to take an extra-hard stance against violent juveniles riding for free on its subway system, then any and every business, private or public, should refuse to relocate thousands of employees anywhere where such violence is not just probable, but is actually occurring on a more frequent basis.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

As long as Metro refuses to take an extra-hard stance against violent juveniles riding for free on its subway system, then any and every business, private or public, should refuse to relocate thousands of employees anywhere where such violence is not just probable, but is actually occurring on a more frequent basis.

By your logic, those businesses that moved to DC in the past 15 years shouldn't have moved there.

[Mos82]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

As long as Metro refuses to take an extra-hard stance against violent juveniles riding for free on its subway system, then any and every business, private or public, should refuse to relocate thousands of employees anywhere where such violence is not just probable, but is actually occurring on a more frequent basis.

And unfortunately nothing to do with PG county or its teens. So I hope the county isn't punished because of it