[RP TownTalk] Untamed Property

Mon Jul 25 14:11:35 UTC 2011

Thanks, Don, for noticing. And, thanks for spelling the surname correctly.
It's much-appriciated.

Yorke

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Don Lynch <dlynch at garretroomstudios.com>wrote:

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> Yorke,
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> I have to admit that you write the dumbest responses to town talk and your
> absolutely awful music lineup at the arts fest proves you lack any sense of
> intelligence.
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> My friend Gerald,
>
>  Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman and American folk hero, was also a
> land speculator. By the time he was 65, Boone was washed up in real estate
> and complained that he had too many neighbors in Kentucky. He moved to
> eastern Missouri in 1800 where he lived another 20 years. (Actually, after
> the Budweiser sale to a Belgium firm a few years ago, I hear that St. Louis
> is pretty-much a ghost town -- no rush hour! The brew is still made there
> but all of the decision-makers, marketing team are gone.)
>
>  Point is, nothing lasts forever.
>
>  And, to call the Cafritz clan "speculators" is a stretch. They have owned
> the property since the mid-1940s. (During the second World War, the place
> was a neighborhood of government-built shanties, housing those broken by the
> Great Depression. Anyway do we really think the Cafritz family should be
> forced to keep their property green so we'd all have nice drive? If that's
> what you're looking for, consider gassing up for a drive down the B-W
> Parkway, the G-W Parkway, or the stunning Blue Ridge Parkway.
>
>  Andy why shouldn't the avenues to the nation's capital be lined with
> thriving commercial enterprises? Don't we want to be vibrant with a strong
> working/middle class? Why not let the businesses of America risk their dough
> to make money and provide a better economy?
>
>  As far as asking the government buying property and turning it into
> parkland -- NUTS!  It's already done. Skyline Drive, Greenbelt State Park,
> Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce and on and on. (Haven't we spent enough on
> that huge U.S. Capitol Building five miles away where NOTHING seems to get
> done!)
>
>  Remember New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley's advice in an 1865
> editorial: "go West, young man."
>
>  Actually that is paraphrased. The entire quote is even more on target
> today than ever before:
>
>    *"Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is
> bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young
> man, go West and grow up with the country."*
> Best,
>
>  Jeffrey
>
>  On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:50 PM, <gerald at geraldking.com> wrote:
>
>> Riverdale’s a nice place to live. Parks, river, historic mansion, trains
>> and quiet residential neighborhoods. It’s also a suburb of a bureaucratic
>> metropolis or the Capital of the United States of America.
>> Along its northern boundaries is the oldest federal highway in the
>> country-Route One. Ounce a major artery leading into the Capital, it long
>> ago gave in to commercial interests and offers little of the bucolic
>> ambiance of the Maryland countryside.
>> I’ve always enjoyed the small stretch of natural untamed Cafritz property
>> along Baltimore Boulevard.  It’s a small reprieve from the steadily ever
>> creeping urbanization of every little patch of our little community.  But
>> progress always trumps the poet and the dreamer. Mr. Warneck wrote, “why
>> not have the state/county purchase the Cafritz
>> Property and set it aside as a park.” Of course the state is broke and
>> Cafritz must show its stockholders a profit on its long term investment. A
>> $3 million donation to Montgomery College to help create the Morris &
>> Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center in downtown Silver Spring trumpets
>> the Foundation’s image as a philanthropist. All the blue bloods in
>> Montgomery County must love their cultural benefactor. The rubes in
>> Riverdale Park should have no delusions about this land speculator. Profit
>> trumps philanthropy when it comes to PG County and the Cafritz Foundation
>> like Douglas Properties is first and foremost interested in maximizing
>> profits. So often we simple folk confuse big money institution with
>> wanting to improve our lives and enrich our community by investment. I’m
>> not saying Cafritz or Douglas Jamal are intentionally trying to rape our
>> community or turn us into a ghetto. It’s just that their philanthropy has
>> strings and Riverdale doesn’t provide political advantage to makers and
>> shakers.
>> I will miss the majestic trees with their greenery and fresh air making
>> capacities. Perhaps the food grown in greener pastures and sold in my
>> neighborhood will make the loss of a last vestige of country ambiance
>> along old Route One more palatable.
>> Gerald King
>>
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> --
> Jeffrey Yorke
> Yorke Property Management, Inc.
> Yorke Partners
> Jeffrey at YorkeRents.com
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Jeffrey Yorke
Yorke Property Management, Inc.
Yorke Partners
Jeffrey at YorkeRents.com
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