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bucolic_frolic

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1. I don't know. Is that a good thing? Is it gentrification? Are they historically important?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Jan 7, 2023, 07:28 PM

Jan 2023

'the Universal buildings' doesn't mean much as a descriptive term. Universal can mean movie studios on Hollywood. Or generic steel Art Deco elsewhere. Were they government buildings? Who wins, who loses.

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Plans Filed For DC's Largest Residential Conversion Along Connecticut Avenue. [View all] elleng Jan 2023 OP

I don't know. Is that a good thing? Is it gentrification? Are they historically important? bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #1

That's already a ritzy neighborhood, near Kalorama, where the Obamas had (have?) a house. spooky3 Jan 2023 #2