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NPRjunkieDC t1_iy60mij wrote

Edit: I read 1990.

Up to 1997/1998 mainly all of NW west of Dupont Circle.

Georgetown + Woodley Park + parts of Palisades, etc . Very few parts of Capitol Hill, too. But you needed to know your way around.

Best Addresses was a book about the most elegant apartment/condo buildings in DC . A few on Connecticut Ave, California St , Columbia Rd and Dupont Circle.

Then gentrification happened, and living east of Dupont Circle was in.

DC was designed upto Florida Ave NW. This is the old DC. When you pass the Duke Ellington bridge is where the "suburbs" start .

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smallteam t1_iy8gfbg wrote

> Then gentrification happened, and living east of Dupont Circle was in.

When the Whole Foods on P Street near Logan Circle first opened (Dec. 2000), a liquor store on the block still had bulletproof glass protecting the workers and inventory.

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NPRjunkieDC t1_iy8i972 wrote

WF on P St + PN Hoffman builders redoing a prime property on Logan Circle.

The very first indications of gentrification. A friend bought for $185K a Townhouse on Vermont Ave. Sold few years later 3X but now 7X.

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CaptainObvious110 t1_iye6thz wrote

Sure did. I actually forgot that Whole Foods opened at that location so long ago.

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