Group Wants To Open Casino in Anacostia (2014, hotel)
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A sports entertainment center would really stimulate that part of DC and ppl will also have a good time. Spending hard earned money on a gamble, everyone loses.
Hmmmm. That's odd. You pick one the lower-income parts of the city to put a casino minutes from MGM National Harbor. That's just wrong on both fronts. What about Georgetown?
I agree with your premise whole heartedly, but that article is pretty outdated. Casino revenues have peaked at an all time high in Maryland just recently, and Horseshoe has actually seen the biggest gains. That casino has seen 12% higher revenues than this time last year.
Once I'm done with my bachelors degree, I plan on going into a masters program in Urban Planning. These type of nefarious acts are something I want to prevent from happening.
Can an area gentrify without displacing the current residents?
Can an area gentrify without displacing the current residents?
Yes. But those residents' incomes will have to be enough to absorb the higher property taxes and higher cost-of-living. As it stands now, many middle class residents are feeling the pinch due to the recent recession. Which doesn't leave much room for them to remain where they are if the area costs increase 25%.
The neighborhoods area College Park and Langley Park in MD are in a high risk area for gentrification from the resulting approval of the Purple Line. Many of them are immigrants who probably can't sustain such an increase in costs where they live unfortunately. There may be affordable housing set aside for those that can "afford" it. But at least 70% of the rest will have to leave the area.
This is being played out in DC as costs continue to rise. Some seniors who are fixed incomes can't manage the steady rise in taxes and the costs of other services.
Gentrification also means people with higher levels of education move in. What senior or immigrant do you know has the time or the money in addition to rising costs to get bachelors and masters degrees?
This process will take at least another 20 to 25 years as the growth in the DC area has slowed somewhat. And I think the high cost-of-living has a part in slowing that growth. It has just become too expensive a place to continue the rapid growth over the past 10 years.
[quote=gomason;43635967]People can get around without cars.
Very few people travel by car in successfully planned neighborhoods. Vehicle traffic in North Arlington has been flat and even decreased in spots over the last couple decades despite development. London has more bicyclists than drivers in its core, nevermind all the people using transit there.
I dont know why people keep spewing nonsense like "DC wasnt designed for this." Please tell me of a city where everything was designed perfectly and there's no traffic.
Northwest is northwest....It was not designed to be and never will be Manhattan....
Very few people travel by car in successfully planned neighborhoods. Vehicle traffic in North Arlington has been flat and even decreased in spots over the last couple decades despite development. London has more bicyclists than drivers in its core, nevermind all the people using transit there.
I dont know why people keep spewing nonsense like "DC wasnt designed for this." Please tell me of a city where everything was designed perfectly and there's no traffic.
Northwest is northwest....It was not designed to be and never will be Manhattan....
I agree that DC was never planned to be such a dense city like NYC. The building heights prevent this. This is why the inner-beltway suburbs to the east are ripe for gentrification. Since DC can't build up, it has to build out. This is why you see gentrification marching east along New York Avenue around the old Hecht Building and further east toward the Maryland line in Ivy City, Rhode Island Avenue by the metro station and now further east with the Brentwood Park development toward the Maryland line, around Catholic University, the Fort Totten area, and pretty soon north along Georgia Ave.
As long as there is adequate access to mass transit, growth in these communities is sustainable. Anacostia can handle this growth as well.
There needs to be a balance in the DC area and I think if there is enough growth on the east side, you won't have such unidirectional traffic patterns during the morning and evening rush hours. Developments on the east side need to include jobs as well as residences.
I agree with your premise whole heartedly, but that article is pretty outdated. Casino revenues have peaked at an all time high in Maryland just recently, and Horseshoe has actually seen the biggest gains. That casino has seen 12% higher revenues than this time last year.
A casino in the middle of Anacostia will be a terrible idea. It will only jack up the crime problems there.
Anacostia needs revitalization along the lines of "good, clean" fun - bars and lounges, sure, but casino can open a whole new can of worms
The biggest challenge with Anacostia is the river. Anacostia is not walkable from other parts of DC. And the areas of Maryland that SE DC borders are not exactly upper class. This will slow the gentrification process since DC has no control over what happens just over the very walkable Maryland border. The river acts as a good buffer zone because it can be inconvenient to cross.
Still.. gentrification is inevitable. In time, the areas of PG that border SE DC will begin to gentrify as DC runs out of land. All real estate near Metro stops will eventually be gentrified. In time there will be no such thing as a metro stop in a poor neighborhood.
And how do I know this? Because I know America runs on $$$. Developers want to build office buildings, condos and apartments near metro stops to make those properties more accessible and thus more desirable locations. The needs of the middle and upper class is always top priority over the poor because they have $$$ to spend and the poor does not. So if middle/upper class people want to live near metro stops.. room will be made for them at the expense of the poor. This is why gentrification cannot be stopped. As much as the poor complain about it.. they have no leverage to work with.
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