Comments on: Park Place Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (Above Petworth Metro) Plus Some Details on Retail Revealed!

By: Winternett

Winternett — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:51:56 +0000

This story needs an update! I don’t really understand Sala Thai moving there after living here for 11 years, it seems a bit overboard based on the lack of other large condo buildings in the area. We need some new startups, cafes, and a print shop. Is there any word on the coffee shop? The CVS is way too big, I’ll have to kiss my on street parking goodbye, but hopefully it will push the horrible tiny corner stores out of business with their high prices short-change tactics.

Will the Coffee shop be just another Starbucks? Or something else cooler? We really need some good retail shops there Hopefully a nicely done Dunkin Donuts, they have the best coffee.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Those prices are ridiculous – you could live in an actual nice neighborhood like Cleveland Park or Dupont for less and have an apartment that was just as nice.

By: DA

DA — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:21:20 +0000

Marcia i would definately ask for the contact info of the general manager and write a letter of complain describing your experience. That is just ridiculous.

I live 3 blocks from Park Place so i obviously want development efforts in our neighborhoo to succeed. Yes ideally i would want smaller independent stores and restaurants to set shop in the area. However if most interest is coming from other less desirable stores like generic CVS i still prefer that to an empty lot, a run down building or an empty retail space.

The place is very nice, the prices are a bit on the higher end given that our neighborhood still has many problems. I imagine that if they do not get enough renters at those prices they are going to have to revise them?

By: DB

DB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:40:34 +0000

The building wasn’t filling. At least not initially. Some of you may recall recent news that the developer said their expectations of interest did not come true, and they were not getting anywhere near the offers they’d expected. So they switched from condo sales to rentals.

They asked for and Councilman Graham was then discussing a $10M bailout.

The priceline is not justified. Equally posh living by Silver Spring metro for $500-600 less per month. Poorly thought out business plan. A shame, i usually like Donatelli’s architecture.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:19:31 +0000

if they put in a starbucks or a caribou coffee i am going to kill some one. give qualia a chance!

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:54:49 +0000

There is crime all around that development. Let’s face it- DC MPD is not enforcing well in the area. I’d be surprised if the building gets filled up, what with drug dealers literally around the corner!!

By: Zach Zagar

Zach Zagar — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:25:11 +0000

For “mmm” that was able to get the details on the income-based housing, where did you get that? I called the Park Place office and the agents claim there aren’t any income-based rentals, only that the tennants make twice as much as the rent per month.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:21:32 +0000

Too bad Marcia, was the lady black or white? Just curious. I would say that if they treated you that way as a prospective customer, avoid them at all costs. You do not want that attitude in your landlord.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:48 +0000

Marcia, do not let one person stop you from doing what you want to do, which is find out more info about the place. You can request to talk to another person noteing that she was not helpful. That will get her attention.

I live in CH and wish nothing but good things for Petworth, but some of you truely beleive bringing down CH validateds Petworth is just in-sane. Come on, let’s be real here. CH is a bit ahead of Petworth interms of development. There has been some violence, but don’t believe you are shelded from any of it, perhaps we just don’t hear about them as much as we do about CH.

By: CPT_Doom

CPT_Doom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:46:14 +0000

To give some perspective on the pricing/neighborhood history, let’s go back a bit in time. OK, let’s go 20 years back in time, when yours truly first moved to DC.

It was the height of the crack/crime epidemic and my roommate and I were new to city living. We ended up renting a 2-bedroom/1-bath condo conversion at 14th and Rhode Island Ave NW that had 900 sq. feet, virtually no storage, but very high-end otherwise (W/D in apt., exposed brick, latest appliances, all new). We paid $950 per month, and this was in 1989. In those days Whole Foods did not exist, and the new condos on P St were the Columbia Lighthouse for the blind. There were virtually no bars, the available grocery stores were the Soviet Safeway at 17th and Corcoran, the Giant at 8th and P or a really disgusting local grocer on P St between 15th and 14th. We heard gunshots nightly and I was robbed at gunpoint in front of what is now Logan Hardware.

Now it seems to me that the Metro neighborhood is better than Logan Circle was in 1989 (I wouldn’t even walk across Logan Circle itself because of the sketchy characters hanging out, and there were prostitutes selling their wares in front of my apt building), and the building seems nicer – it’s closer to public transport, will have restaurants, is one block from an OK grocery store (although Safeway so needs to upgrade that place). Is it worth 3X as much? Not sure.