sprinkles202

sprinkles202 t1_j0huflk wrote

Reply to comment by jindc in DC's old Vanguard building to be converted into downtown apartments by Maxcactus

DC is transient, and there’s a large population of younger folks who want to live in DC for a few years but don’t want/intend to buy until they move out of the area or decamp to the suburbs.

I see this particular building being popular with GW grad students and junior biglaw types who want the convenience in the near term but wouldn’t want to live there in the long term and thus would rather rent than buy. Or maybe it’ll become another Avenue and be full of GW undergrads.

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sprinkles202 t1_ix8vh9z wrote

Reply to Earlier this year a cyclist killed at this intersection by a speeding truck (a pedestrian killed too). Now their ghost bike has also been hit. by dhasselhof

I often walk by a different ghost bike that’s quite a bit older and is in really rough shape…in the case of this other bike I don’t think you can definitively chalk it up to the bike having been hit (though it may have been), it has been around long enough to have been knocked around in multiple violent thunderstorms, etc. I’m guessing that there’s not a formal process to maintain the condition of ghost bikes once they’re installed? As these monuments age, that could become more of an issue.

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