[Chat] ...Rising Skyline in Charles Village...

[arjay]

Emil,

Yes, I can understand your feelings, ...because you live far enough away that 
it really doesn't affect you, ...except for a stroll over to the "zone" for 
dinner, ...and a perhaps the purchase of a new pair of Birkenstocks, ...and 
then a stroll back over to where you live, ...in the suburbs!

That's why the people who live close to "it" will suffer, ...and the people 
who live farther away from it will simply have a nice dinner and only have to 
"go with the flow".

It's high $$$$ creep, and eventually the whole neighborhood will disappear.

Years ago, ...and I was there "on the front line" (I can even show you the old 
pictures of those properties), ...the residential 3300 & 3400 block of Calvert 
Street to Union Memorial Hospital, ...the residential block between Calvert 
Street and Guilford Avenue on University Parkway to Union Memorial Hospital, 
...Hopkins now has 34th Street closed between Charles Street and Saint Paul 
Street (do you really think that the powerful $$$$ Hopkins will ever open it 
again?, ...when they do You and I and Kathleen will have dinner at Marconi's, 
...my treat), ...Hopkins at Eastern, ...the Giant at 33rd and Greenmount, 
...big $$$$ moving in, ...secretly at first, ...but with a full legal team in 
place, ...to have "Task Force" meetings complete with "power point" and a web 
page with nothing on it.  The wrecking ball comes later, but doesn't really 
affect you.

Arjay
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>===== Original Message From Chat at charlesvillage.info =====
>I think Struever will probably do a good job, Arjay.
>
>They have a good track record, it seems to me, and I don't
>think you could find a better firm for the job.  For my
>part, I would prefer that the construction lead to
>economically viable shops and sufficient parking to give
>the neighborhood a lift, even if that comes at the expense
>of raising the skyline of Charles Village.
>
>Maybe that's why the new owners of the Saint Paul Court
>Apartments (3120 Saint Paul) seem to be acting like
>such absentee landlords.  Once the construction on the
>3200 block starts to happen, SPC will appreciate, and the
>owners can turn it over at a handsome short-term profit.
>
>--Emil
>
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