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This whole conversation depresses me. Someone sees a neighborhood with liquor stores and chinese takeout places and thinks, apparently, "it's good to see that it's not being ruined by conspicuous consumption [of the sort I disapprove]!" The sort of "community infrastructure" people talk about is generally incompatible with "diverse lifestyles" because with a limited pool of money/resources, priorities are going to get pulled in different directions (dog parks vs. murals, farmers' markets vs. street festivals, swim teams vs. football teams). Not to mention the fact that DC purposely and consistently limits retail and commercial development, meaning that there just aren't that many places for small businesses to go before those places get "discovered" and gentrified, to be replaced with higher-margin retail.

I'm not very sanguine about this.

by JustMe on Oct 22, 2010 10:52 am • link • report

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