Comments on: Penn Quarter’s Sister Neighborhood: Columbia Heights?

By: ed

ed — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:19:44 +0000

#22 How many families with children live in PQ? Or elderly?

#23 Brave anonymous Yeh, it was so much better in the old days! Give me a break. DC is still unattractive to retail of the small independent business owner type.

Some posters do really know what they want. Visit an authentic and dare I say “hip” neighborhood like Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

#24 You can get said items at small independent locally owned hip stores on 14th Street (probably in CH too). You should check it out.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:20:46 +0000

I’m just happy to have a place within the district where a person can buy curtain rods or a laundry basket without having to trek to the suburbs. We don’t want to become big box central, but amenities are important!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:11:37 +0000

Would everyone like for DC’s neighborhoods to go back to what they were 10-20 years ago?

Would you like for DC to be unattractive to retail? It was not too long ago.

I was around for those dark days.

I’m not convinced some posters really know what you want.

By: pqresident

pqresident — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:53:00 +0000

you will find a much wider scope of humanity than just insufferable yuppies that live, work and have their being downtown.

By: Freddie Mick

Freddie Mick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:05:13 +0000

Right on Josh – Luke – Loganmo – Ed. A neighborhood is much more than the retail stores. The two neighborhoods are totally different. CH has people from Latin American! CH is – or was – a self-sufficient neighborhood, the same as the other neighborhoods in town, Dupont, Georgetown, etc. PQ – Chinatown – was downtown & had Chinese & black people living here. Now it’s just the same boring stores one finds anywhere, over-priced cloned restaurants serving the same tapas, & insufferable yuppies who expect the same boring life they experienced in the suburbs. As P. Kennicott in the Post said, PQ is a suburbanite’s fantasy of city living. If people here in PQ read books – the Jane Jacobs book is a classic – maybe we’d still have a bookstore & maybe there’d be some kind of authenticity in the neighborhood.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:47:21 +0000

Why would a tourist or anyone who didn’t live in CH want to go to CH?

You’re only too cool for PQ until you get mugged in CH.

By: ed

ed — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:39:17 +0000

Luke, Josh, and Loganmo

Totally agree with you. Now people in Shaw are getting all hyped up about the “New” O Street Market. It’s going the way of PQ and CH: Soulless big box chain retail, “luxury” condo, drivel courtesy of well connected “developers”.

To the people that buy into this hype: Please read Life and Death of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:01:44 +0000

Uh no. Columbia Heights actually has a grocery store.

By: money talks

money talks — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:56:55 +0000

CH has always been residential and commercial, your area, PQ use to be called the central business district for a reason.

By: pqresident

pqresident — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:36:07 +0000

I echo FourthandEye. transit access of all kinds + downtown DC = a good formula (for me).

CH & PQ are not the same but they now share more similarities than a year ago.