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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

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Ironically, one of my early issues was overconcentration of liquor stores on H Street--I was even featured in a Post article about it in 2003. That certainly seems like an overconcentration. Then it was about loitering, littering and crime.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Benning Road, the extension of H Street is in the upper portion of image. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Metro eyes possible future stops in Georgetown, National Harbor ," WTOP-AM).

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). The city did a plan for the area around 2003.