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D.C.’s downtown is comatose. Here’s how to revive it.
The Washington Post ^ | November 23, 2022 | Editorial Board

Posted on 11/27/2022 6:05:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The District is still stuck in a pandemic funk. Most days, the city, especially the core downtown blocks around the White House, looks more like a ghost town than a vibrant capital city. Before the coronavirus shutdown, visitors to Washington were often in awe of how many cranes punctuated the skyline. Now, it’s hard to find a building without a “for rent” sign. Coffee shops and restaurants are serving limited hours, if they’re open at all.

Hopes were high for a revival this fall. Schools reopened. Covid cases were way down. Businesses were calling their employees back. But the city has remained at about 45 percent of workers back in the office since Labor Day. That’s worse than New York, Chicago, Houston and the national average for major cities, according to data from the security firm Kastle Systems.

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TOPICS: US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dc; depression; dyingcity; economics; funk; hungergames; panem; recession; tyranny; wfh
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To: MinorityRepublican

Highest rate of abortions;
Lowest % of military recruits;
One of the highest rate of murders


41 posted on 11/27/2022 6:44:35 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Chgogal

“Embrace the suck”

They do, at $100K+ for doing zilch.

And no expensive coffee or lunches to buy!


42 posted on 11/27/2022 6:48:01 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican

Beyond repair, the inhabitants have ruined it.


43 posted on 11/27/2022 6:48:17 PM PST by kenmcg (t)
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To: Jewbacca

At the rate things are going, I wonder some days........


44 posted on 11/27/2022 6:54:17 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

End it

Dont mend it


45 posted on 11/27/2022 6:54:48 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

Then there are the homeless camps rampant around the downtown as well!


46 posted on 11/27/2022 7:08:27 PM PST by princess leah
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To: AlaskaErik

Agree. Let the cities rot to Hell. There is no good that can come out them.


47 posted on 11/27/2022 7:11:54 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: MinorityRepublican

For starters, tar and feather ALL Democrats and run them out of town on a rail!

Then, things will sort themselves out!


48 posted on 11/27/2022 7:19:37 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: MinorityRepublican


The District is still stuck in a pandemic funk.

The District is a dumbocrap cesspool


49 posted on 11/27/2022 7:34:37 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: AlaskaErik

The mayor need’s the encourage more BLM riots


50 posted on 11/27/2022 7:44:24 PM PST by keving (We the government )
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To: Labyrinthos

Any large city democrats run becomes a hellhole...


51 posted on 11/27/2022 7:51:11 PM PST by GOPJ (Unsolved crime? Jump to the conclusion the killer is a LGBTQIA2S+ (Turn about's fair play.))
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To: Jewbacca

Airburst at 3500ft so as to minimize fallout. Blast will act like big eraser and clear the land for a NEW START!!


52 posted on 11/27/2022 7:52:15 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I was there back in June and the natives are not friendly and it is dangerous due to the lack of LE and the inability of one to defend oneself. It isn’t safe.


53 posted on 11/27/2022 7:53:02 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Jewbacca

It would be a shame to lose the Smithsonian.


54 posted on 11/27/2022 7:55:31 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

lazy libs.


55 posted on 11/27/2022 7:55:56 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
lazy libs.

That's why they mailed in their votes.

56 posted on 11/27/2022 7:58:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Monkeypox central.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/fashion/Washington-DC-has-thriving-gay-lesbian-and-transgender-population.html


57 posted on 11/27/2022 8:04:45 PM PST by ameribbean expat (The object of life is...to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -Aurelius)
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To: reg45

Pretty robust building.

But, yeah.

Maybe one of those neutron bombs.


58 posted on 11/27/2022 8:09:05 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: oldplayer

Sorry, but couldn’t bring myself to go to the link

NEITHER, and been to DC many times before graduating UMd/College Park, and except for some museums, now i have zero interest, and even less empathy. Just another Dumb poorly run city, along with Baltimore, Philly, etc.

And nothing new, really, about the situation. 30 years ago drove through/around Chicago, and came away with fear for my life.


59 posted on 11/27/2022 8:10:06 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I actually mourn what the city use to represent
……the Smithsonian…..visiting the White House……the statues and monuments…… the heartrending Holocaust Museum…….Museum of the Bible……the double decker buses…….the Spy Museum……Tomb of the Unknown Soldier………
…..We took our young children there ……..the Lincoln Memorial…..the historical and elegant Willard Hotel

DC use to represent, at some level, AMERICA and American values, hopes and dreams

Sadly, you couldn’t pay me to visit now


60 posted on 11/27/2022 8:12:07 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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