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The best areas for Dining and Nightlife IMO seem to be the areas surrounding Downtown DC. IDK why you're getting so worked up over this.
I'm not worked up. You don't have to like DC. There is no law against having an opinion. To each his own right? Some people like downtown DC and some don't. The same is true for all places.
I'm not worked up. You don't have to like DC. There is no law against having an opinion. To each his own right? Some people like downtown DC and some don't. The same is true for all places.
But I like DC. It has great museums and cultural attractions and restaurants and nightlife. I just think Downtown DC is rather bland and repetitive in appearance. A lot of similar looking streets and avenues at least in the primary core with areas with more character (which I personally like) surrounding that.
But I like DC. It has great museums and cultural attractions and restaurants and nightlife. I just think Downtown DC is rather bland and repetitive in appearance. A lot of similar looking streets and avenues at least in the primary core with areas with more character (which I personally like) surrounding that.
I guess my problem is that I don't understand the reason people seem to need to put other cities down. If someone is going to list 10 cities they like, why can't they list the things that cities do better than others instead of highlighting negativity.
Example:
"Chicago is ranked ahead of Philly because I believe Chicago has more retail than Center City. Center City has great retail too though."
Example of the wrong way:
"Chicago is better than Philly because Philly has dead streets compared to Chicago when it comes to retail and Chicago is just better at it."
I said the same thing in both statements, but one was offensive and the other was not. It's really pretty easy to do.
Or
"DC had a lot of buildings that look the same and don't have an interesting appearance but there are other great buildings in DC too."
But I like DC. It has great museums and cultural attractions and restaurants and nightlife. I just think Downtown DC is rather bland and repetitive in appearance. A lot of similar looking streets and avenues at least in the primary core with areas with more character (which I personally like) surrounding that.
I think I largely agree with this, though the museums and cultural attractions are largely downtown.
As long as blocks of government structures and bland office buildings occupy most of Downtown DC, it's going to be hard pressed to match the vibrancy of Center City.
How come you assume D.C. will remain office buildings though? Office buildings are getting redeveloped into mixed use buildings downtown. Just this past week another office building in the middle of that office ghetto you are talking about is going mixed use. This is the future for downtown D.C. What will downtown D.C. be as it turns to an office/residential split? At downtown DC's size, how would you rate a built out downtown D.C. with a residential split? A better question would be, what would the downtown D.C. residential population be at one mile around D.C. when it's already 173,000+ people now?
“I would imagine a mixed-use redevelopment that would include both some office as well as some residential, perhaps hotel. It could add some vitality,” Carr said in an earlier interview.
Seattle is undergoing more construction than any other city save for NYC/Chicago. As much as people are glorifying the construction in DTLA, Seattle blows it out of the water right now. Cranes towering the sky everywhere. I would know, I just moved up here from LA.
I was just there in August, and the activity downtown was staggering. I love how Seattle seems to have struck a balance between new construction and restoration of old building stock.
It's an amazing city in so many ways.
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