http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/trump-to-turn-old-post-office-into-luxury-hotel/2012/02/07/gIQAlS9gxQ_story.html?hpid=z4
This makes me feel icky
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 04:24 (thirteen years ago)
outside of the donald trump factor I don't think I'm philosophically against things like this happening. they're not knocking it down and it's not like a hotel is better or worse than retail/office space.
― iatee, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 04:34 (thirteen years ago)
and they are renting it, not selling it
― iatee, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 04:35 (thirteen years ago)
Great! Now we can visit. As for the idea, depends whether the site is protected from future desecration.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Hucci Gucci Pucci (Mount Cleaners) (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:02 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah honestly if you've actually been to the Old Post Office Pavilion it's already basically a food court/mall/office complex so I don't see this as a problem
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:39 (thirteen years ago)
Like when I was a kid it was basically the place you go to eat after museums if you don't want museum food and don't mind walking a bit
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:40 (thirteen years ago)
xp: It's a block away from my office and I went there once when we first moved in. Had a historically bad burrito there.
― beachville, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 13:00 (thirteen years ago)
I'm not against this at all. Buildings are buildings. Fuck 'em. It's when they start thinking they can do the same to parks and wildlife refuges and shit that I get upset.
― beachville, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 13:02 (thirteen years ago)
Of course, the reason I'm currently in this crappy, disused law firm office space is that my historic building is getting a full historical restoration elsewhere in D.C. Hmm...
― beachville, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 13:04 (thirteen years ago)