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So please show me the area where our local media is saying downtown DC and isn’t talking about all the areas I mentioned? You’re actually proving my boundaries.
I'm confused? I thought you were arguing nobody called anywhere Downtown DC?
I'm confused? I thought you were arguing nobody called anywhere Downtown DC?
Nobody does. What the news calls Downtown DC is all the neighborhoods all over DC that people in this thread have been trying to say aren’t DC. The news doesn’t really use local neighborhood names so your point about the news labeling things was pointless. They generalize areas. You mentioned curbed and our local media and both of those outlets labeled Logan Circle and NOMA downtown which most people have argued is not apart of downtown DC all throughout this website.
Nobody does. What the news calls Downtown DC is all the neighborhoods all over DC that people in this thread have been trying to say aren’t DC. The news doesn’t really use local neighborhood names so your point about the news labeling things was pointless. They generalize areas. You mentioned curbed and our local media and both of those outlets labeled Logan Circle and NOMA downtown which most people have argued is not apart of downtown DC all throughout this website.
It isn't pointless because the news tries to communicate information to people. If nobody had any idea what constituted Downtown DC was they wouldn't use the term. but they do. Just because there are subsections doesn't mean the whole thing doesn't exist.
The fact that Telegraph Hill, City Point, Fort Point, Andrews Square, and the Seaport District all exist doesn't negate the fact that South Boston very much is a thing that exists.
It isn't pointless because the news tries to communicate information to people. If nobody had any idea what constituted Downtown DC was they wouldn't use the term. but they do. Just because there are subsections doesn't mean the whole thing doesn't exist.
The fact that Telegraph Hill, City Point, Fort Point, Andrews Square, and the Seaport District all exist doesn't negate the fact that South Boston very much is a thing that exists.
So then you agree that Downtown DC is larger in land area than every city except NYC because the DC media told you so?
I was in Camden market literally just last week. It is definitely not a grocery store and literally no one in the world besides you considers it to be one. To be a grocery store fundamentally it has to be a store that sells groceries. None of these places are a single store much less a grocery store. Camden Market also sells clothing. Does that make it a department store? I don’t argue your point that you can buy groceries in downtown Atlanta although your choices appear to be very limited.
Downtown DC apparently includes a lot of single-family townhouses. I love these areas but it's not what I'd call downtown.
Residential density is an interesting topic. Seattle is lacking compared to some of the top cities but not others. Based on various definitions of "downtown," we probably beat LA and DC.
DC relies on the area north of Massachusetts and the District Commons area, and looking at a 2016 ACS map I'd guess the downtown/government core would be in the 20-30k/sm range even with some of those farther areas.
LA's density is mostly well west of Downtown despite recent additions. Much of greater Downtown isn't very residential. If you go basically on row of census tracts beyond the Harbor Freeway the average will be ok, but again, it's probably somewhere in the 20s.
Downtown Seattle was 31,909/sm for a 2.7 square mile area on 7/1/18 using Washington State Office of Financial Management. It was 27,919/sm using a 4.5 square mile area. That's 86,378 or 126,305 residents. State estimates by tract are here.
--The first uses King County tracts 71 (007100), 72, 73, 7401, 7402, 8001, 8002, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92.
--The second adds 66, 67, 70, 75, 86.
We're well below B, P, C, SF, NY in this regard. I can't wait for 40,000/sm and I'm hoping for 50,000. That's the sort of city I want us to be.
Downtown Seattle density is very impressive. How many square miles is that over?
For LA, I disagree with the common definition of downtown. It’s an auto centric definition defined by freeway locations. What I see happening in the future is the areas to the west (MacArthur Park and Westlake) will be squeezed by gentrification from the west (Koreatown) and east (downtown) and will be considered part of greater downtown once they aren’t slums.
I already consider them part of downtown. I can walk there in 15 minutes while the Arts District which is supposedly part of downtown is a 10-20 minute Uber ride depending on traffic.
I grew up in a small city, about 50,000, and it had a fully functional downtown at the time. There were no shopping centers at the time so all retail was downtown. Now, it's almost a ghost town in the downtown area. And it's like that in most towns except the very largest.
Downtown DC apparently includes a lot of single-family townhouses. I love these areas but it's not what I'd call downtown.
Residential density is an interesting topic. Seattle is lacking compared to some of the top cities but not others. Based on various definitions of "downtown," we probably beat LA and DC.
DC relies on the area north of Massachusetts and the District Commons area, and looking at a 2016 ACS map I'd guess the downtown/government core would be in the 20-30k/sm range even with some of those farther areas.
LA's density is mostly well west of Downtown despite recent additions. Much of greater Downtown isn't very residential. If you go basically on row of census tracts beyond the Harbor Freeway the average will be ok, but again, it's probably somewhere in the 20s.
Downtown Seattle was 31,909/sm for a 2.7 square mile area on 7/1/18 using Washington State Office of Financial Management. It was 27,919/sm using a 4.5 square mile area. That's 86,378 or 126,305 residents. State estimates by tract are here.
--The first uses King County tracts 71 (007100), 72, 73, 7401, 7402, 8001, 8002, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92.
--The second adds 66, 67, 70, 75, 86.
We're well below B, P, C, SF, NY in this regard. I can't wait for 40,000/sm and I'm hoping for 50,000. That's the sort of city I want us to be.
DC’s downtown is twice the size of Seattle. Which area are you referring to? The residential areas of DC’s downtown are in Mt. Vernon Triangle, NOMA, Union Market, Capital Riverfront, Dupont, Logan Circle, and SW Wharf. The financial district in Golden Triangle and the Government complex on the national mall don’t have much residential development like most areas of their kind across the nation.
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