As noted California was an independent country for a short period. Also, Hawai'i (pre-colonial period, Kingdom of Hawai'i 1795-1893, and the Republic of Hawai'i 1894-1898) and Vermont (1777 to 1791).
Although there are a couple of hotel development locations planned just to the north of Nationals Park, this article indicates development along the Anacostia which would seem to provide a 'bridging' area to the planned location for DC United.
Several points: (1) Dupont Circle is probably the msot vibrant neighborhood in DC, and it has plenty of business and office use. I'm perplexed by the suggestion that having a daytime business crowd is incompatible with a vibrant neighborhood. (2) There will be more mixed retail/nightlife on the ground level regardless of what goes in above it. That is beside the point. (3) The city's relatively new inclusionary zoning law will have some quotas for low and moderate income units, but I tend to think the quotas are not aggressive enough. (4) As it happens, a Trader Joe's is already going in at the same intersection, directly across the street from the Reeves Center.
I don't think you can easily extrapolate from the current state of the office lease market to 2016 (or later), when the new building will be up. And your projection of a trend toward less office space use seems speculative to me, though I'm not informed enough to dispute it outright. I think it's also worth thinking about the housing supply v. demand issue in a bit more critical way. There may be people who generally desire to "live in the District." But there may be people who only desire to live in parts of the district that offer them a particular lifestyle. The housing that is made available may thus have an impact on the demand.
DC stadium likely not to happen.. http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/26/d-c-united-stadium-poll/
Just cause someone against the project did a poll doesn't mean it represents the entire population. Nevermind the questions could be very very misleading. And any poll asking about public funding and sports stadiums its tends to to show majority are against it.
Yes. This poll means nothing: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/...ium-may-be-more-popular-than-post-poll-shows/
Some of the comments to that article make my eyes bleed. Yeah, all those people being kicked out of their homes, and thriving businesses being shut down in the lovely Buzzard's Point neighborhood. Turning an underused, decrepit government building into housing and businesses. How awful.
there are people who have made careers out of working out the proper phrasing of poll questions in order to skew the results towards a desired outcome.
Definitely i seen it over here in the Seattle area for the new NBA/NHL arena project where funding doesn't even involve the public tax payers only those that go to the events.
Since when do stadium deals get done at the behest of public opinion polls? If winning an opinion poll was a prerequisite to getting a stadium deal done we'd have like no stadiums in this country.
Worth reading this from Steven Goff on what the DC United stadium poll means: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...14/01/27/thoughts-on-d-c-united-stadium-poll/