Comments on: When Nothing’s Happening, Do You Drop the “Up-and-Coming” Title? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2009/01/30/when-nothings-happening-do-you-drop-the-up-and-coming-title/ D.C. Real Estate, Development, and Urbanism Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:45:24 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Top Blog Posts of Last Week: No More Inauguration Rental Stories - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2009/01/30/when-nothings-happening-do-you-drop-the-up-and-coming-title/comment-page-1/#comment-1421 Top Blog Posts of Last Week: No More Inauguration Rental Stories - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/?p=3241#comment-1421 [...] (8)When Nothing’s Happening, Do You Drop the “Up-and-Coming” Title? [...] [...] (8)When Nothing’s Happening, Do You Drop the “Up-and-Coming” Title? [...]

]]> By: James http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2009/01/30/when-nothings-happening-do-you-drop-the-up-and-coming-title/comment-page-1/#comment-1413 James Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:20:02 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/?p=3241#comment-1413 Were you not here when Logan Circle as far as 9th Street was referred to as "Dupont East"? Yes, all of these sites are in neighborhoods that have no business calling themselves Columbia Heights. Read this as a sign of where Columbia Heights has gotten to, that people *want* to be associated with it. In time, the neighborhoods will (probably) re-assert their identity as they desire to become distinct, especially as GA Ave. commercial meets the neighborhoods' new needs. Were you not here when Logan Circle as far as 9th Street was referred to as "Dupont East"?

Yes, all of these sites are in neighborhoods that have no business calling themselves Columbia Heights. Read this as a sign of where Columbia Heights has gotten to, that people *want* to be associated with it. In time, the neighborhoods will (probably) re-assert their identity as they desire to become distinct, especially as GA Ave. commercial meets the neighborhoods' new needs.

]]> By: diomedes http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2009/01/30/when-nothings-happening-do-you-drop-the-up-and-coming-title/comment-page-1/#comment-1412 diomedes Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:34:21 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/?p=3241#comment-1412 Ruth, Park view has always had an identity crisis, this is nothing new. Check out the sign at the cornor of irving and georgia, by the looks of it, it has been there way before people got on petworth's "up-and-comingness," not after. What is Park View's boundries and for that matter what is Park Morton's? Ruth,

Park view has always had an identity crisis, this is nothing new. Check out the sign at the cornor of irving and georgia, by the looks of it, it has been there way before people got on petworth's "up-and-comingness," not after. What is Park View's boundries and for that matter what is Park Morton's?

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