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Boom&Bust
D.C. Downtown News
Boom times have a way of intoxicating fortune seekerseven those who should know better. Bill Regardie had thrice failed to keep a local-business magazine afloat in the District. But D.C. Downtown News was his bet that there were finally enough nouveau richies in town to make it happen. The magazine made its debut in February 2002; seven weeks and countless typos later, Regardie pulled the plug. The lesson: No one lives downtown.
Boom&Bust
Columbia Heights
Workers had barely finished installing the escalators at the Columbia Heights Metro station when real-estate agents began predicting that the next Dupont Circle was just around the corner. Nearly four years later, residents have found more gang killings and the same blighted streetscape around the corner. You know a place is gentrification-proof when the threat of prison time couldn't convince a prominent slumlord to spend a single night there.
Boom&Bust
Blimpie
Just how far has H Street NE come in the past 30 years? Certainly far enough for meatball subs: Last year, national sandwich chain Blimpie proposed a store at 8th and H Streets NE. But the 'hood's activists said no. Sensing that their revitalization efforts rated grande lattes, neighbors pushed for a Starbucks. This time, the rejection came from corporate.
Boom&Bust
The Olympics
Mayor Anthony A. Williams bet the District's future on this urban-renewal ... Continued
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