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Right but how many strip malls will you find in a 3.5 mile span anywhere in the cores of Boston, Philly, DC etc? 0.
How many of those strip malls even outside that span are going to be anything like the strip malls we're actually about though? Are they really going to host that density of retail/commercial and with that density of people living so close to them? I realize it's a strip mall and that in most other cities is immediately identified with a certain kind of urban development, but sometimes generalizations don't hold true for all cases.
I'm not disagreeing with you. "Cheap" is obviously an objective standard. Quality is not though I'd go so far to say that DC has little in the way of quality food. It's just that I always wonder how people judge "ethnic eats" particularly if they weren't raised eating curry chicken/pho/doro wat their whole entire life.
I don't get what you mean by this at all. I don't know anybody who thinks D.C. in 2014 has a bad food scene. You guys need to step into 2014. D.C. is a very different city. You guys are so out of touch. Is D.C. on the level NYC, LA, or San Fran? No, but how many cities are in the world? We just got on the scene. We were still the murder capital in 2002 FYI. Give us time. We spent our days prior to 2008 with Detriot, Memphis, and Baltimore scaping the gutter.
So yes there are quite a bit less in Boston, but they are still there.
Washington D.C. is probably the most built out city in the core behind NYC and San Fran. There are barely any strip malls in the whole core much less 3.5 mile's. We're talking about D.C. remember? Height limits have caused the city to develop every inch. I think Washington D.C. may also have the most large grocery stores in the core of any city in the nation. Grocery store's use D.C. as a test market for their urban format store's. They are built under apartment building's and are usually anywhere from 40,000-80,000 sq. feet.
I don't get what you mean by this at all. I don't know anybody who thinks D.C. in 2014 has a bad food scene. You guys need to step into 2014. D.C. is a very different city. You guys are so out of touch. Is D.C. on the level NYC, LA, or San Fran? No, but how many cities are in the world? We just got on the scene. We were still the murder capital in 2002 FYI. Give us time. We spent our days prior to 2008 with Detriot, Memphis, and Baltimore scaping the gutter.
I stepped into DC last month and I step into DC once or twice a year. The food scene was good in regards to Eritrean/Ethiopian food. The ful was amazing where I had it. There were also several good midscale/upscale places that were very akin to what you would find as a decent neighborhood spot in NYC. I've been to the half dozen or so Jose Andres places which are pretty good. Definitely not in the ranks of NYC, LA, SF, or Chicago. Behind Philly, Houston and Seattle, too. Not sure about Boston as I haven't been there in a long while. So, pretty good overall. The only thing with DC is that there doesn't seem to be anything particularly idiosyncratic to DC that's all that great. It doesn't seem like anything particular to or started from DC will ever be of much note. Half-smokes are good, but they aren't something that I can see developing a craving for. Definitely advancing rapidly though.
Washington D.C. is probably the most built out city in the core behind NYC and San Fran. There are barely any strip malls in the whole core much less 3.5 mile's. We're talking about D.C. remember? Height limits have caused the city to develop every inch. I think Washington D.C. may also have the most large grocery stores in the core of any city in the nation. Grocery store's use D.C. as a test market for their urban format store's. They are built under apartment building's and are usually anywhere from 40,000-80,000 sq. feet.
In a 3.5 mile radius from the center of DC (not including the 1/2 of that circle that would be outside of city limits) there are no strip malls? Not that I don't believe you - I don't know only been to DC once - but that distance goes nearly to the city limits if you put the center point as the White House. In other words, DC has no strip malls?
Oh and I looked - from the 110 to Wilton along Wilshire, there are 5 strip malls in 3.5 miles. I actually did that walk on Sunday (Wilshire / Western to 7th / Fig) at CycLAvia... while spotty in a few places (a few surface lots, a handful of strip malls, one drive-thru Yoshinoya), that is a very urban (and gritty) stretch.
Doesn't Philly have a Little Saigon neighborhood? And if it does, is that the one in the link?
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