Comments on: 5th And Eye Receives Seven Proposals

By: dave

dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:20:09 +0000

A luxury hotel across from the House of Ruth does scream of chic-ness and sophisication.

By: Tom at 400 Mass

Tom at 400 Mass — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:14:23 +0000

In todays Washington Post Business Section regarding developer R. Donahue Peebles:

“Next week, he plans to make a presentation on a new luxury hotel that he wants to build on a lot he bought at Fifth and Eye streets NW. There will be a subterranean nightclub, so as not to disturb the neighbors at 555 Massachusetts Ave. On the first floor will be a high-end, glass-walled restaurant named after Peebles’s wife. A coffee shop will serve guests and the community. ‘D.C. is ready for something a little more chic, a little more sophisticated,’ Peebles said.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033001722.html

By: joe

joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:08:30 +0000

Here’s what we need in PQ – a Bum Bot!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/28/MNEJVRI19.DTL
It’s from Atlanta – a robot that warns criminals & bums that it is filming them & that they need to move on, & if they don’t move on, it sprays them with cold water.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:10:10 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with Joan and Mike.

By: pq resident living in france

pq resident living in france — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:20:49 +0000

I think the “anything is better than what we have now” mentality is a bad one. That’s probably why most of DC development is so uninspired.

- future resident of 4th and eye who would likes single serves.

By: Mike @ 555 Mass.

Mike @ 555 Mass. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:55:05 +0000

I think Joan’s comments are right on the money! Our friends in PQ don’t see the drug deals and hear the screaming that occurs in front of this vacant lot that we are all discussing. At this point, I don’t care what goes there as long as it helps to make this a more peaceful street.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:09:08 +0000

That little block of 5th Street already has a liquor store that sells single serves, a women’s homeless shelter, a full nudity strip club, vacant buildings and a recently closed crack house. And folks are criticizing the people who live and have invested on that street for wanting something that serves them?? Enough already. This is not the last lot in downtown DC. Let’s put something on that block that works for the folks that actually live there every day and give them a break. They deal with and have dealt with enough.

By: pq resident living in france

pq resident living in france — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:49:06 +0000

Theres a police station directly adjacent to the triangle isn’t there? Isn’t that what that ugly 1950′s suburban looking brick house thing is?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:05:50 +0000

What happens to the DC master plan? A developer slips a few thousand bucks to a few city councilmen & voila, he can do whatever he wants. Vacant buildings & vacant storefronts? PQ, we are! In about twenty years things will be “normal”.
I’d like to see a police substation in the triangle…& maybe another police substation where the McDonalds is on Seventh Street. Maybe then even the lazy DC cops will make an arrest or two as they walk to & from the “office” but then again, probably not, too much paperwork.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:12:11 +0000

#26, #29:

As per Page 11 of the Mount Vernon Triangle Action Agenda (http://tiny.cc/XpR4r):

* Projected land use diagrams are based upon discussions with property owners and stated public sector objectives. Final land use will be determined by zoning and combined-lot regulations and through a continuing dialogue between market forces and strategic public investments and incentives.

Also, if you refer to the Summary of Development Activity in the Mount Vernon Triangle Area found in page 7, you will see that there was no commercial space projected for Hampton Inn/555 mass…