<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>In the late 1940's until the late 1960's <SPAN><SPAN>Riverdale</SPAN></SPAN> Park had a commercial district on Rt.I.</DIV>
<DIV>At one time it had several grocery stores, a hardware store and several car dealerships.</DIV>
<DIV>then came East West Highway and it killed business in Riverdale Park as well as the business district in Hyatsville.</DIV>
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<DIV>the reason East West Highway is an overpass that divides the town is because the citizens or Riverdale (park) were sick and tired of people using Riverdale Road and Queesbury Road as cut through.</DIV>
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<DIV>They asked the state for help, and unfortunately received an even bigger cut through that destroyed over 60 Victorian homes in its wake and the business districts of Hyatsville and Riverdale.</DIV>
<DIV>I have lived in the Washington area for 56 years. In Virginia, Maryland and the District. In several county's and cities.</DIV>
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<DIV>I love Riverdale Park because it does not have a subway stop, major roads, and actually has green space and wild life.</DIV>
<DIV> And I can afford to live here.</DIV>
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<DIV>The only places in the Washington area, beside Riverdale Park, that has such qualities are economically out of my reach, Like parts of Alexandria, </DIV>
<DIV>MC Clan, Glen Echo, Chevy Chase, Potomac, or off of MC Aurthur blvd. </DIV>
<DIV>Why?</DIV>
<DIV>Because the people who live there are intelligent and have enough money to preserve a quality of life.</DIV>
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<DIV>For thighs who are enamored with development, why not move to <STRONG>Gaithersburg</STRONG> and leave <SPAN>Riverdale</SPAN> Park to those of us who appreciate it.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 6/1/11, Chris Currie <I><crcurrie@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Chris Currie <crcurrie@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [RP <SPAN>TownTalk</SPAN>] renewed discussion of Cafritz Project garners some analysis<BR>To: towntalk@riverdale-park.org<BR>Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 12:41 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>I just posted this comment on the Rethinking College Park blog:<BR><BR>[Quote:] "People gotta live someplace. And we can save more trees if they<BR>live in dense developments, rather than in sprawling suburban castles."<BR><BR>We could save even more trees if Central Park were redeveloped like the rest<BR>of mid-town Manhattan, but does anyone think that would be a good idea?<BR><BR>If you're going to pack people into denser environments, which makes sense<BR>for a number of reasons, it's even more important to provide green oases<BR>that sustain the human spirit.<BR><BR>That's not an argument for putting "sprawling suburban castles" on Cafritz,<BR>but for preserving the green space - perhaps as a park that could do at<BR>least as much for the local quality of life as a yupscale grocery store.<BR><BR>The current trends indicate that there will be more and more shopping<BR>amenities in the Rte. 1 communities in the future, but less
and less green<BR>space. Shouldn't we try to preserve some of what's left of the latter?<BR><BR>Do what Hyattsville did and put the commercial yuppie playgrounds on<BR>under-performing and less dense commercial tracts. That makes better<BR>economic as well as environmental sense. And it leaves us with a few places<BR>to breathe.<BR><BR>Chris Currie<BR>Hyattsville<BR><BR><BR> --- On Mon, 5/30/11, Dwight Holmes <<A href="http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dwightrholmes@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</A>><BR>wrote:<BR><BR><BR> From: Dwight Holmes <<A href="http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dwightrholmes@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</A>><BR> Subject: [RP TownTalk] renewed
discussion of Cafritz Project<BR>garners some analysis on the Rethinking College Park blog<BR> To: "TownTalk" <<A href="http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=towntalk@riverdale-park.org" ymailto="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</A>><BR> Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 3:55 AM<BR><BR> <A href="http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/" target=_blank>http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/</A><BR><BR> Talks Resume for Whole Foods Just South of College Park<BR><BR> May 29th, 2011 | by Colin Phillips | Published in<BR>Cafritz<BR> Property, Speculation
| 5 Comments<BR> 15Share<BR><BR> There?s nothing like talk of a Whole Foods opening in the<BR>neighborhood<BR> to get local pulses racing. After a few years of<BR>recession-induced<BR> torpor, it appears that plans are again underway to develop<BR>the<BR> Cafritz Property, a 35.8-acre tract of undeveloped land on<BR>Route 1<BR> immediately to the south of College Park. Whole Foods would<BR>like to be<BR> the anchor tenant for this development (it is listed among<BR>their<BR> ?stores in development?. As the lively
discussion on the<BR>Riverdale<BR> Park Patch shows, some locals regard this as the best thing<BR>since<BR> unsliced organic bread, while others view it as the latest<BR>in a line<BR> of development and transportation disasters to hit the<BR>area....<BR><BR> for complete blog article, see<BR><A href="http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/" target=_blank>http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/</A><BR> _______________________________________________<BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>TownTalk mailing list<BR>To post to the list, send mail to <A
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