Fascinating read on "urban revitalization" (and how it always fails)

[acroyear]

Using the example of SouthWest DC, turned over to the government by a supreme court decision in the 1950s, much like New London won theirs...

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah -- currently the next "wave" of the silver spring project is the block that specifically houses the Foggy Bottom Morris Men's favorite after-practice pub, and the developers are trying to take advantage of the fact that sales have dropped massively in recent years as proof that the place needs to go...

...only the reason sales dropped is Montgomery County's fault: sales in bars across the whole county dropped as a result of the smoking ban. The county would like to say otherwise, but they include the bars in regular restaurants as "bars" when they publish their own statistics, even though there's a big difference.