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Many cities have a midtown, but DC doesn’t have one. Could that be changing? The area around U Street, Florida Avenue, Howard University, and the Armed Forces Retirement Home Redevelopment could form a massive midtown CBD area.
Many cities have a midtown, but DC doesn’t have one. Could that be changing? The area around U Street, Florida Avenue, Howard University, and the Armed Forces Retirement Home Redevelopment could form a massive midtown CBD area.
The large Carr building at 15th and L is called "Midtown Center".
There's also Midtown Cleaners in Dupont and Midtown Youth Academy at 14th & Florida NW.
It's just a term that isn't used very much around here, we tend to refer to specific neighborhoods (Logan Circle, Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, U Street, etc.). I've seen references to that area as being "Midtown", with "Uptown" being up by Woodley/Cleveland Park (or maybe that's just because of the theater).
There's also Midtown Cleaners in Dupont and Midtown Youth Academy at 14th & Florida NW.
It's just a term that isn't used very much around here, we tend to refer to specific neighborhoods (Logan Circle, Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, U Street, etc.). I've seen references to that area as being "Midtown", with "Uptown" being up by Woodley/Cleveland Park (or maybe that's just because of the theater).
I've always known uptown as being the neighborhoods along Georgia Avenue starting from Howard area and up through Park View, Brightwood, etc.
DC is very similar to big European cities in theres no built form difference from its official downtown and the immediate surrounding neighborhoods.
U Street looks just like DuPont Circle which looks just like Navy Yards which looks just like Capital Hill so it's very easy for people to assume all of large swaths of the core a part of downtown/uptown
You must be new to D.C. bc "DC natives" have been calling that stretch of DC uptown for years.
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