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I think there is a confusion between negative and people not drinking the kool aid
I like DC a lot but dont see it in the same eyes as the DC faithful but many disagree on many things so is what it is
Wait....so.....
1. A DC project is posted....
2. A poster from (insert city) decides to say something negative versus not saying anything at all if they don't like it.....
3. And you call that not drinking the cool aid?
Scratches head....
I don't stop people to tell them I think they aren't attractive on the street, I just keep walking past them. In other words, if you don't like something in DC, you have a choice to ignore it. You don't have to press quote, type a message, and then press post on these threads. You go out of your way to do so.
So again...please clarify what you mean because I thought you were trying to say people don't post negative comments about DC by choice which they could choose not to do.
"affordable housing" is relevant. In metro D.C., because the cost of living is very high, affordable housing is likely to still be higher than apartments in general, in say, Dallas.
"affordable housing" is relevant. In metro D.C., because the cost of living is very high, affordable housing is likely to still be higher than apartments in general, in say, Dallas.
Affordable housing is relative to earnings. People make way more in DC than Dallas so they can afford to pay more. Also, transportation costs are lower in D.C. which factors into cost of living too.
The South Park neighborhood of DTLA could have as many as 11 mixed-use towers under construction, ranging from 35-60 stories, by this time next year.
888 South Hope is under construction, cranes are being assembled at the Metropolis site (4 towers), demolition permits have been issued and fencing has gone up at the Fig Central site (3 towers), and fencing has gone up at the thought-to-dead Apex 2 site. With 1200 South Figueroa (2 towers) expected to break ground early next year, it's going to be Crane City in this section of town, and it may only be the beginning.
The South Park neighborhood of DTLA could have as many as 11 mixed-use towers under construction, ranging from 35-60 stories, by this time next year.
888 South Hope is under construction, cranes are being assembled at the Metropolis site (4 towers), demolition permits have been issued and fencing has gone up at the Fig Central site (3 towers), and fencing has gone up at the thought-to-dead Apex 2 site. With 1200 South Figueroa (2 towers) expected to break ground early next year, it's going to be Crane City in this section of town, and it may only be the beginning.
Yup...South Park is absolutely on fire. Still, I'd rather stay put in the Fashion District where all the buildings are human scale and 80-100 years old. I have no problem with the height of the new projects; a couple handfuls of new 35-60 story buildings will look fantastic on the skyline. From afar, South Park is beginning to look like Vancouver. But at ground level, its a different story. Lots of parking podiums, blank walls, etc. I wish the city would implement a new overlay that mandates the same kind of urban design rules for South Park they've mandated for Broadway. The window on that is closing though with all the projects already in the pipeline. It may be too late for South Park to avoid its fate as a downtown Miami-like neighborhood that looks great from afar but fails to meet its potential at street level.
I suppose if can't be avoided in South Park, at least we still have the Historic Core, Fashion District, Little Tokyo, and the Arts District. No amount of parking podiums could screw up those neighborhoods because there's already so many intact old, pedestrian scale buildings.
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Apartments are still renting at a blistering pace in D.C. Supply can't keep up with demand despite the building boom. Developers need to speed up the pace of development and build more apartment highrises if they expect to stop rents from rising.
Are they? My company is an investment company in retail, office, industrial and apartment. The common news out of DC lately has been the troubles in the apartment and office sectors. Rents are dropping and vacancy rising which is going against the national trends due to the massive supply of new apartments. It's a strong worry among our researchers.
Are they? My company is an investment company in retail, office, industrial and apartment. The common news out of DC lately has been the troubles in the apartment and office sectors. Rents are dropping and vacancy rising which is going against the national trends due to the massive supply of new apartments. It's a strong worry among our researchers.
Yup...South Park is absolutely on fire. Still, I'd rather stay put in the Fashion District where all the buildings are human scale and 80-100 years old. I have no problem with the height of the new projects; a couple handfuls of new 35-60 story buildings will look fantastic on the skyline. From afar, South Park is beginning to look like Vancouver. But at ground level, its a different story. Lots of parking podiums, blank walls, etc. I wish the city would implement a new overlay that mandates the same kind of urban design rules for South Park they've mandated for Broadway. The window on that is closing though with all the projects already in the pipeline. It may be too late for South Park to avoid its fate as a downtown Miami-like neighborhood that looks great from afar but fails to meet its potential at street level.
The new renderings of the currently under-construction Metropolis project illustrate the kind of missed potential I'm talking about:
We've got to get away from these massive, inward-facing projects.
I suppose if can't be avoided in South Park, at least we still have the Historic Core, Fashion District, Little Tokyo, and the Arts District. No amount of parking podiums could screw up those neighborhoods because there's already so many intact old, pedestrian scale buildings.
As long as these mega-projects provide ground floor retail on 3-4 sides, South Park will avoid turning into Wilshire Corridor-lite. Hopefully. Metropolis I think has retail on only one side, which is a letdown, and I'm not too thrilled with the semi-enclosed mall at Fig Central, though it will have retail on four sides. It's hard to hate on these projects too much since they're replacing parking lots, and South Park isn't all that historic to get worked up about anyway. It is clearly setting up to be the gaudy, touristy section of DTLA, and these mega-projects will fit right in. I agree that they're highly impersonal though. Anywhere else and they'd be horribly out of place.
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