One team chose to embrace their fans, and released a love letter to the city when it felt under attack. The other didn't.

Key details of the framework:

Actual Airplane emotions

People have been naming their children Outerbridge Horsey longer than there's been a United States of America.

Counterpoint: billionaires should move to DC, and run for ANC.

Great let's do it

Also, read a history book from time to time! There have always been people who viewed philanthropy skeptically. Some towns way back in the day even refused Carnegie money to build *libraries*!

Mainly that DC can't build in the "riparian" area, the red striped area on this map. And 30% of the land has to be recreation or green space, but the old designs would probably have met that requirement.

The plans for Reservation 13, right across the street, allow for relatively dense development. I would assume RFK follows similar zoning (lower density residential on the west building up as you go east).

A good post. As it says, way back in 2016, DC drew up plans for what a redeveloped RFK would look like, with/without a football stadium. These plans are very dead since they don't meet the new federal requirements for the site, but you can see what the thinking was at the time.

Here's w/stadium:

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Amazing visual storytelling with data from @thecity.bsky.social

Shout-out to @wmata.com, which has made navigating L' Enfant station way easier in the past year or so. (I forgot to take a picture so I had to steal one from WUSA9)

I was excited to see all the local DC stuff in Cross since it's based here, but then this scene made me die a little inside.

It's something I looked at a month or two ago. The ACS data implies we added ~50k units since 2018, when obviously our population is smaller now. If that was true, rents should be cratering.

Instead, digging deeper it looks like we've just shifted to smaller units/households.

Three for three, the hat trick.

Love this drawing my four-year-old made of the chained Dreaming Celestial from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com's Eternals.

Plus the reference image.

I... is there a joke here?