Comments on: O Street Market Redevelopment

By: The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » O Street Market Zoning Hearing March 6th

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:12:23 +0000

[...] community members to attend an upcoming zoning hearing regarding a mixed-use redevelopment of the O Street Market: O Street Market needs support from [...]

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:16:49 +0000

The zoning commission refused to schedule a hearing on this, meaning Roadside will have to go back to the drawing board on this. More delays, etc.

Too bad.

By: fanciepants

fanciepants — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:26:40 +0000

Jesus Jim, calm down.

I’m not saying that taller development isn’t appropriate for the area now, it is. I’m making a point about aesthetics, specifically the pointlessness of preserving the O street market facade, a relic of less-dense development, when it’s going to be completely dwarfed by the adjacent, modern buildings.

By: Rob Goodspeed

Rob Goodspeed — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:28:24 +0000

The project does concentrate the tall buildings along 8th Street, limiting the height of the buildings along 7th and 9th.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:18:28 +0000

Why do people continuously clamour “townhouses or buildings of a similar size” when it’s clear low-density structures in a development of this type are simply not economically feasible? Even with the number of parking spaces involved, the Shaw neighborhood is a perfect location for more dense, transit-oriented development. Townhouse may have been appropriate for the area at the turn of the nineteenth century, but not today!

By: RC

RC — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:44:19 +0000

If you’re talking about a grocery store, a hotel, condo’s and apartments I have no problem with “too much” underground parking…

After living in Shaw and hearing about this for the last 5 years, this construction can’t happen soon enough…

By: fanciepants

fanciepants — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:04:56 +0000

Yuck. The surrounding buildings will completely dwarf the market. Townhouses or buildings of a similar size are far more appropriate to the scale of the market facade.

By: Rob Goodspeed

Rob Goodspeed — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:53:00 +0000

It does, however neighborhood leaders like ANC Commissioner Alex Pedro are convinced it's something that's holding Shaw back. I wonder how much parking is available on U Street or Dupont Circle ...

By: Steve Davis

Steve Davis — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:23:45 +0000

Can’t say I’m excited about the fact that they’re providing twice the parking that’s required, which could arguably already be too much, right around the corner from two metro stops. But I’m glad they’re preserving the old facade. It’s hard to tell with the drawings HOW it will be incorporated, though.

Doesn’t bragging about the parking reek of what Richard terms the suburban mindset pervading the city?

By: Stephen Armstrong

Stephen Armstrong — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:20:39 +0000

My son lives in this neighborhood and this is very exciting!