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bobthebonobo t1_jb8ev7n wrote

Reply to comment by CaptainObvious110 in Cleveland park needs a coffee shop by katrusiaa

A basic selection of meets haha. Streets is better but still lacking. For instance I was in Cleveland park a few weeks ago picking up a few ingredients for a really basic recipe. I needed some ground pork and neither store had any. That’s such a basic and important meat to have. I was in Streets the other day and they didn’t even have any ground beef as well.

Another thing it would be nice to have available would be slightly less common cuts like ribs. They’ve pretty much just got a couple types of fish, chicken, Italian sausage, ground turkey, and a couple cuts of steak.

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ScourgeOfWestEnd t1_jb86uqo wrote

Reply to Restaurant Recommendations? by gendr_bendr

Depending on where you'll be on the mall best bets in terms of walking and how far your willing to walk, will be in Metro Center/Chinatown/Penn Quarter/Mt. Vernon or Capitol Hill/Eastern Market/Barracks Row neighborhoods. Avoid the Wharf...it's a bit of a tourist trap. Check out the website Eater for DC. Their recommendations are generally solid.

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ksixnine t1_jb7zpfh wrote

Reply to comment by 9throwaway2 in Cleveland park needs a coffee shop by katrusiaa

1940s, post the Depression/ New Deal growth wasn’t the beginning of Cleveland Park now was it?

The data I’m using is from the late 1800s when the Rock Creek Railway line via the Chevy Chase Land Company built the infrastructure for Connecticut Ave, as well as the failure of the Cleveland Park Company, and the eventual success of the Miller brothers - ultimately, none of these entities were trying to compete with the longtime established villages of Georgetown and Tenallytown (Tenleytown) when they finalized the designs & built out Lower Cleveland Park.

The movie theater, the park & shop, and the automobile literally drove people to the area, and helped redefine the streetcar suburb in the 1940s (and post war 50s) — places to eat/ buy groceries, and be entertained, as well as the ability to get one’s car serviced were the primary draws for that neighborhood, relegating retail shopping to being secondary ~ which it still is to this day.

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Too_LeDip_To_Quit t1_jb7tbib wrote

Reply to comment by 9throwaway2 in Cleveland park needs a coffee shop by katrusiaa

One of the fascinating things about CT is the existing density. The "gaps" between the commercial strips -- from WP to the Zoo, from the Zoo to CP, and from CP to Van Ness -- are almost entirely large multifamily buildings.

But when you spend a lot of time on CT, you really don't see much foot traffic at all from these apartments to the commercial strips. You can't blame them -- the streetscape is dangerous and unpleasant.

But there are a ton of people who already live on the corridor.

And yes, there should be more density on the commercial strips themselves and probably on the neighborhood streets as well.

But I think in general (not necessarily ITT) people oversell housing NIMBYism as the diagnosis here when transportation NIMBYism is the bigger villain.

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