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excellent posting.

Greenblet is indeed a total horror.

So is that atrocious area around the disgustingly badly planned football stadium.

However- I am not in agreement with the concrete plant-ugly as it may be- there is a need for basic industrial support and if the employees use Metro or are induced to use it- this can be a very good thing. In the USA, we need to get over our prejusdices about industry and industrial develpoment- this kind of backwards thinking is just as bad as the reverse TOD that you are rightly calling.

The DC area in particular [ MoCo and Fairfax especially] are real hotbeds of white collar snobbery- the people who live and work in those places consistently look down on people who are blue collar or those of us who use our hands to make a living- or those of us in manufacturing.

If this country is to survive- we cannot have all lawyers and restaurants.

One only needs to visit old areas of our cities to find beautiful old factory buildings- Washington Navy Yard, Baltimore, docks of Philadelphia, the list is huge. Industrial buildings do not have to be ugly.
There are basic well designed factories right here in the USA that are a hell of a lot nicer on the eye than many offcie buildings in downtown DC.

Great words about superblocks and walk ability !!!!

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