🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <jwhitesi-1007961830410001@cnc098033.concentric.net>,
John Whiteside <jwhitesi@concentric.net> wrote:
>In article <4rudi8$31e@clarknet.clark.net>, prb@clark.net (Pat) wrote:
>
>> georgetown wasn't the best spot technically, and the
>> burghers of georgetown wer bitterly opposed to this.
>> 
>> Yeah, it'd have been nice,  but no-way today, especially with
>> the district going bankrupt.
>
>I was in Georgetown for the first time in quite a while and was struck by
>how many vacant storefronts there are on Wisconsin Avenue. 
>
>If a trendy, overpriced little store can't survive in Georgetown, where can it? 

Bethesda, Friendship Heights.

>There were far more empty stores than I've been seeing in Dupont Circle,
>Woodley Park, or Adams Morgan. Maybe if people could get there without
>dealing with traffic and parking those stores would be doing better...

And if Marion Barry was competent, we could drink the water.

Georgetown survived the traffic of the 80's, it did not survive
the barrification of the city.



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