tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post2687338405813510411..comments2024-02-28T11:29:36.860-05:00Comments on just up the pike: what's up the pike: like the cut of your jibDan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-7582674267085274332010-04-15T11:10:06.778-04:002010-04-15T11:10:06.778-04:00The redevelopment story in the Gazette was the sam...The redevelopment story in the Gazette was the same one they run every other month or so. Quote from Sandra Talent about Wheaton being ripe for redevelopment. Then 10 paragraphs walking back that notion with the same old laments about multiple property owners and lack of residents and/or office space. Conclusion - it might happen and it might not. This is news?<br /><br />Particularly strange is no mention whatsoever of the Safeway site that <a href="http://dcmud.blogspot.com/2010/04/wheaton-considers-18-story-metro.html" rel="nofollow">DCMUD</a> wrote about a few days ago. How can this be omitted from this article? And no new info about how the Request for Qualifications process is coming along.<br /><br />However, the Greenhill article was interesting. This sentence from a Gazette article about the Anchor Inn site (<a href="http://www.gazette.net/stories/080206/silvnew193335_31951.shtml" rel="nofollow">Aug., 2006</a>) says it all:<br /><br /><em>That’s what Greenberg had in mind last month when he told the council that his ‘‘four grandchildren, with a fifth on the way, will deal with [the Anchor Inn site] on their schedule” unless the zone was amended to allow taller development without review.</em><br /><br />I believe Greenhill is a big part of the problem with the pace of redevelopment in Wheaton. His grandchildren are provided for. This is a company that buys property and waits for other more visionary developers to do the heavy lifting. Then, when others have pulled up the market he reaps the rewards. Look at the portfolio in Bethesda. Most of it is in the Woodmont triangle. There are big plans for much of this neighborhood except the block owned by Greenhill. He will just sit on these underdeveloped parcels for as long as it takes for the rest of the neighborhood to rise up around it. At the risk of some hyperbole - a classic slumlord. With Greenhill sitting on 25% of the CBD in Wheaton it might take another 20 years - just in time for his grandkids to take over. And in the meantime the community suffers.dave in wheatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523125979733072733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-35021907460703778132010-04-15T10:27:10.929-04:002010-04-15T10:27:10.929-04:00I really appreciate the plug for the bike event wi...I really appreciate the plug for the bike event with Richard Layman and me, but now the pressure is really on! Better get back to those last-minute revisions to my powerpoint slides . . .Casey Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13257605906533365614noreply@blogger.com