Why Is Southeast DC so undeveloped, and lacking the urban landscape the rest of DC has West of the River? (low income, best city)
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What I don't understand is why there is hardly any retail in SE for such a vast area. Take it how you want. No one should have to travel to another jurisdiction for basic needs especially in a city. People move to the city to avoid this, but this isn't the case in SE apparently.
Oh yeah that's right... People are definitely moving to Baltimore because the city is just oozing with amenities and retail. You're so busy running your mouth about SE DC. Have you been to East and West Baltimore lately. Do you really think that they are any different than SE DC. You need to take a look at your own dilapidated
City before you comment on anything in DC.
You can talk about SE DC all you want, but that will never change the fact that you live in a second tier city with nothing to offer and that nobody cares about . You..like most of the Bamas in Baltimore are jealous of DC. We are everything that you want to be.
There should be a shopping mall east of the river. In every other city you'll have shopping mall and possibly a movie theater in the hood. Mondawmin mall and Reisterstown plaza in Baltimore are in the middle of the hood but have pretty much everything someone may need. There's nothing like that EoTR. If you live EoTR and want to shop you are most likely going to PG county (PG plaza, Eastover, Iverson mall, Forestville) and if you want to cash out on a fresh outfit perhaps Gtown. Minnesota ave should be a much better shopping hub than it is with more discount and clothing stores serving the population, sort of like 149th street in the Bronx. I think Baltimore indeed does better with retail in the ghetto than D.C. does with better bus connections into the closeby suburbs that have the better retail like Towson, Catonsville, and White Marsh.
I went to Forman Mills in Bmore last month on Bel air road it was next to a grocery store and dollar general, the shopping center seemed to serve the area around it well, which is the hood. D.C. has a similar set up near Rhode Island ave station with the Forman mills next to save a lot and Big lots and other retail that you'll find in the hood, but there's none of that EoTR right now. Just two Safeways, one Giant, a few cheap clothing stores like rainbow, and that is it. Other than thats its liquor stores, Chinese carryouts, beauty supply shops, and other run of the mill hood joints.
you make no sense. For starters comparing the shopping strips in ghetto NY to other parts of the country is asinine. In the NY ghettos the shopping strips are loud and crowded but its the same dollar stores, cheap food and urban clothing stores that you find in any ghetto shopping area. Plus NYC has over 8million people and is the densest city in the country so.....come on son. I also think its asinine to assume baltimore shopping areas are better organized than the ones in SE. In baltimore you got mondawmin and theres the forman mills in NE Baltimore. What if you lived in Park Heights? Cherry Hill? parts of west baltimore even? Youd be in the same predicament as someone in Congress Heights or Anacostia.....for whats its worth theres a handful of stores on Benning and Minnesota (which is still EotR as you CD folks like to call it) that has some of the same retail youd find in more "developed" ghetto shopping areas but its no different from that handful of stores on Monument St in East Baltimore. I also think the shiopping area on naylor rd has or at least had a shoe city and a few other stores at one point but they probably closed cuz ppl in SE are known from shoplifting and robbing they own stores (sad but true).....which probably explains why the autozones in SE dont have windows.....plus u also must remember most ppl in SE still have solid metro access so they can take a trip downtown, georgetown or PG Plaza and Largo if they really wanna buy stuff. No different from those in park hts who take a bus to mondawmin.
you make no sense. For starters comparing the shopping strips in ghetto NY to other parts of the country is asinine. In the NY ghettos the shopping strips are loud and crowded but its the same dollar stores, cheap food and urban clothing stores that you find in any ghetto shopping area. Plus NYC has over 8million people and is the densest city in the country so.....come on son. I also think its asinine to assume baltimore shopping areas are better organized than the ones in SE. In baltimore you got mondawmin and theres the forman mills in NE Baltimore. What if you lived in Park Heights? Cherry Hill? parts of west baltimore even? Youd be in the same predicament as someone in Congress Heights or Anacostia.....for whats its worth theres a handful of stores on Benning and Minnesota (which is still EotR as you CD folks like to call it) that has some of the same retail youd find in more "developed" ghetto shopping areas but its no different from that handful of stores on Monument St in East Baltimore. I also think the shiopping area on naylor rd has or at least had a shoe city and a few other stores at one point but they probably closed cuz ppl in SE are known from shoplifting and robbing they own stores (sad but true).....which probably explains why the autozones in SE dont have windows.....plus u also must remember most ppl in SE still have solid metro access so they can take a trip downtown, georgetown or PG Plaza and Largo if they really wanna buy stuff. No different from those in park hts who take a bus to mondawmin.
I'm not bashing DC at all. All I'm saying is Minnesota and Benning should be a much bigger hub than what it is now and I think there are plans to redevelop that spot some more. Used to go there as a kid the only that has changed is Park 7 and DOES HQ being built over the last few years, but its a start. As for robbing stores and stealing you stores gotta do is have armed security. As for NY hoods having more shopping options its more than just dollar stores and bodegas you got shoe stores, discount electronics, bars, clothing, all that. Flatbush in Brooklyn has endless strips of that next to housing projects. The only place in DC you'll find something similar to Columbia Heights and the H street corridor from 8th and H to 17th street. Oh yea that's another thing Wards 7 and 8 literally have NO sit down restaurants or corner bars or bars period. What's up with that? Ihop and Denny's don't count.
You only need to put 3% down for a fixed rate mortgage with the recent changes in the last year. Even then there is downpayer assistance available for any house less than $417,000. So the high downpayment is not necessarily true. What is hard is qualifying if your credit is bad. This is where people often get tripped up. They are more stringent on credit and job requirements then they were in the past.
yeah, the cheapest houses are dilapidated and need renovations on top of that smh.
But that's what you want.
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