The Great Purple Line Thread (Silver Spring, College Park: apartment, home, subsidized)

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by terp80

Maryland to get full federal funding agreement for Purple Line https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.9f65cc8fc4b6

That's pretty awesome. I was three weeks off. BUt I knew it would happen quickly. Too much win with this project. No project is perfect, but when you have this much support, chances are it has most things right.

It's a shame this project took decades to become a reality. People shouldn't have to wait for generations for infrastructure transit projects to go from conception to completion. THe system is broken and it needs to be revised.

[the resident09]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

That's pretty awesome. I was three weeks off. BUt I knew it would happen quickly. Too much win with this project. No project is perfect, but when you have this much support, chances are it has most things right.

It's a shame this project took decades to become a reality. People shouldn't have to wait for generations for infrastructure transit projects to go from conception to completion. THe system is broken and it needs to be revised.

Great news, lets get to digging!

[adelphi_sky]

Groundbreaking is today!

Everything You Need To Know About The Purple Line | WAMU

[adelphi_sky]

Done deal!

Hogan and U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao participated in a ceremonial signing of the project’s federal full funding grant agreement. The signed grant will enable the state to access the $900 million in federal funds proposed for the project—including $325 million already appropriated for it.

During the ceremony, Hogan promised that construction would start right away—and it did. After the speakers were done, Hogan got in an excavator and used it to tear down a building to make way for what will become a Purple Line operations center. Construction is also expected to start right away along other parts of the route.

Officials Break Ground on Long-Awaited Purple Line Project; Construction Immediately Starts - Bethesda Beat - Bethesda, MD

[Mutiny77]

This is really good news.

[RickyRoma]

I wonder how much will this change the landscape of college park now that the uncertainty is off the table? Would be curious to know how many projects/developers were on the sidelines until this got resolved, if any.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by RickyRoma

I wonder how much will this change the landscape of college park now that the uncertainty is off the table? Would be curious to know how many projects/developers were on the sidelines until this got resolved, if any.

A lot of development in College Park was coming regardless of the Purple Line.

THe corridor I would watch for development announcements in the near future is the Langley Park area. I believe those developers were sitting on the sidelines waiting. That area is ripe for redevelopment/gentrification. I'd look for announcements before 2020 in that corridor.

[adelphi_sky]

Even Rashern mentions Langley Park's redevelopment connected with the construction of the Purple Line:

Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker, who is running to replace Hogan as governor, said the addition of the Purple Line will expand College Park's development, and he hopes it will also bring more investment to Langley Park. The lower-income community to the west of College Park will have a Purple Line station at the intersection of Riggs Road and University Boulevard. “It’s going to help us revitalize Langley Park, help us create some synergies and opportunities there and make sure we’re providing not only quality housing, but also retail and mixed-use development,” Baker told Bisnow after the groundbreaking. “That can happen now.”

Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc...medium=Browser

[lookingbutnotlost]

Langely Park does not need to be gentrified. They cannot keep pushing working class and lower working class citizens further and further out, away from public transportation which is exactly what gentrification would do.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by lookingbutnotlost

Langely Park does not need to be gentrified. They cannot keep pushing working class and lower working class citizens further and further out, away from public transportation which is exactly what gentrification would do.

Ah yes, the soft bigotry of "we don't want those people living near us". Which is what gentrification sets up. Push out the working class because "they don't deserve to live here".

Don't think it's limited to the city or close in urbanized suburbs, it happens out here too.