Comments on: Huge 929-Unit Development Proposed for Ft. Totten

By: Zoning Commission Gives Thumbs Up to Huge Projects in Brookland and Fort Totten - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:59:15 +0000

[...] Art Place@Fort Totten: The proposal included plans for 929 units of housing, a children’s museum and a grocery store. Already, there have been several reports that the Fort Totten locals don’t really [...]

By: Denial, Anxiety Mark Start of Art Place@Ft. Totten - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:20:26 +0000

[...] Art Place @ Ft. Totten is one development project that’s not getting enough attention in my [...]

By: AH

AH — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:37:07 +0000

I am vey excited to see new construction come to this area especially the new townhomes that K. Hovnanian Homes are building (Emerson Park)! Great News!

By: Think D.C. Affordable Housing is Bullshit? - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:43:29 +0000

[...] what’s considered “affordable” housing in this city: Ft. Totten Station calls it’s $1300 one bedrooms affordable. For whom? I can’t afford that as a [...]

By: tom veil

tom veil — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:53:06 +0000

Looks beautiful. And, ahem, DC Native, take a look at the images before complaining. There’s a huge parking garage next to the Metro station.

By: D C Native

D C Native — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:19:29 +0000

How is this little area going to accommodate that many people? Traffic is going to be horrible. Where will the people park? They keep trying to change DC into a little NYC, but we don’t have the infrastructure for all this development. The big city with the small city charm is no more. But what about the tax payers that have loved this city because of the charm it used to have? Does any body care about the impact on the seniors, that live in this area? They will not be able to drive for all of the congestion and confusion. But I guess we’re suppose to boot them to senior citizen homes whether they want to go or not…

By: Sir Spicious

Sir Spicious — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:34:58 +0000

Affordable isn’t defined by the developer, it is a HUD standard based upon area median income.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:21:57 +0000

What a joke. Affordable for WHOM?

And where are all these new folks gonna grocery shop? The Giant on Riggs? Unless you include a Harris Teeter or other name brand grocery and a Rite-Aid or CVS, you’re fooling yourself to think that a children’s museum will generate needed revenue. And that does nothing for the residents. How does that facility serve their interests? What is there for the RESIDENTS especially the seniors to do for quality of living/justification of these prices?

No one is hanging out in Ft. Totten so stop with the ‘U-Street cookie cutter’ projects in areas that can’t support that vision.

These complexes work when living and shopping and entertainment is INCLUDED. Then a person doesn’t NEED a car because the convenience is built in. See PG Plaza’s condos for an example. If you live there, you have shopping and entertainment all rolled into one and you don’t have to walk more than a few blocks.

This will fail much like the overhyped SW corridor is failing now. Nats stadium hasn’t been the money magnet it was proposed to be and neither will this unless a viable entertainment element is packaged in. You have to give someone a reason to want to live there besides the Metro, especially at those prices.

By: Q

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:59:43 +0000

The Children’s Museum is a nice touch since the Capitol Children’s Museum has gone to National Harbor. Still, their concept of affordability is not attracting people as of yet.

By: The Cafritz Foundation’s Art Place@Fort Totten: The Neighbors Are Deeply Confused - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:57:56 +0000

[...] earlier today I reported on the Cafritz Foundation’s huge new Art Place@ Ft. Totten development. The proposal includes, among many other things, a Child…. It will encompass 16.52 acres of land. And I just ran a google search on the “Art Place [...]