Comments on: 1050 Ripley St: The details http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/ Your neighborhood news source Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BeyondDC Newsfeed » 200-foot-tall tower approved in Silver Spring http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/comment-page-1/#comment-10009 BeyondDC Newsfeed » 200-foot-tall tower approved in Silver Spring Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:42:33 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/#comment-10009 [...] to 318 multifamily dwellings.Info on the original approval (including elevations) can be found at Silver Spring Penguin.    > Full Story       Silver Spring [...] [...] to 318 multifamily dwellings.Info on the original approval (including elevations) can be found at Silver Spring Penguin.    > Full Story       Silver Spring [...]

]]> By: Silver Springer http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Silver Springer Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:24:09 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/#comment-937 Well...by the time this project is done you will have a lot to choose from, the amount of proposed condos turning apartments is significant. The resistance to build an office building is alarming and borders conspiracy. Silver Spring Gateway 457 apartments 1200 East West 247 apartments Falkland North 1,020 apartments Cameron House and 8021 Georgia are considering apartments. I would like to see lower rents too but I woould also like to see more office jobs above all else. Well…by the time this project is done you will have a lot to choose from, the amount of proposed condos turning apartments is significant. The resistance to build an office building is alarming and borders conspiracy.

Silver Spring Gateway 457 apartments
1200 East West 247 apartments
Falkland North 1,020 apartments
Cameron House and 8021 Georgia are considering apartments.

I would like to see lower rents too but I woould also like to see more office jobs above all else.

]]> By: paul_silver_spring http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/comment-page-1/#comment-935 paul_silver_spring Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:55:14 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/#comment-935 Weak apartment market? The regional avg rent increase was 5% least year, MoCo's "guidance" was 4.2%, my personal increase was 10%.... I mean, I trust you're getting your information from somewhere, but I'd love to know where because it certainly hasn't been the reality facing my wallet in the past year. Oh yea, I was also on 3 waiting lists when I moved outta the building with the 10% hike. I didn't get to see the new place until the day we moved in. Unless it has weakened considerably since a year ago (And that'd be fine with me, as my lease renewal is coming up in a couple months) I'm confused. Weak apartment market? The regional avg rent increase was 5% least year, MoCo’s “guidance” was 4.2%, my personal increase was 10%…. I mean, I trust you’re getting your information from somewhere, but I’d love to know where because it certainly hasn’t been the reality facing my wallet in the past year. Oh yea, I was also on 3 waiting lists when I moved outta the building with the 10% hike. I didn’t get to see the new place until the day we moved in. Unless it has weakened considerably since a year ago (And that’d be fine with me, as my lease renewal is coming up in a couple months) I’m confused.

]]> By: Jennifer Deseo http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/comment-page-1/#comment-933 Jennifer Deseo Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:10:52 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/#comment-933 <p>I don't know what to think of the design. This building, along with other 200-foot-tall buildings that may go up in the area, could create a concrete canyon.</p> <p>Personally, I don't mind concrete canyons. (It would feel like my native New York.) But streetscapes like that require serious ground-level retail activity to invigorate it. </p> <p>The 3,000 square feet of retail that this project offers may not be enough to cut it.</p> I don’t know what to think of the design. This building, along with other 200-foot-tall buildings that may go up in the area, could create a concrete canyon.

Personally, I don’t mind concrete canyons. (It would feel like my native New York.) But streetscapes like that require serious ground-level retail activity to invigorate it.

The 3,000 square feet of retail that this project offers may not be enough to cut it.

]]> By: Silver Springer http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/comment-page-1/#comment-931 Silver Springer Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:59:45 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/2007/06/06/development-26/#comment-931 I was hoping they would change the bland design. We're not only in a weak condo market but now we're getting into a weak apartment market too. I was hoping they would change the bland design. We’re not only in a weak condo market but now we’re getting into a weak apartment market too.

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