GWU Master Planning Process and Document

The document is online here. As a colleague pointed out to me, George Washington University uses the term "urban town center" to refer to development planning for the Old GWU hospital site.

Don't they know that DC is a real city, so we don't need to use new urbanist or ULI terms to refer to the development of some land.

As long as we don't mess it up too much (which we do at almost every opportunity), we have real urbanism here.

BTW, if you don't know already, after the federal government, GWU is the largest property owner in the District of Columbia, and leased real estate makes up a significant proportion of GWU's endowment.

I don't know if you've been in the Marvin Center lately? The grocery store in the basement is a decent model for a small footprint urban supermarket. Just like how I keep pushing the idea of colleges putting their bookstore on the main drag in neighborhood commercial districts (Howard did but there is no neighborhood around where the bookstore is, rendering any spillover benefit moot), if this supermarket had been located on the street, it could have development significant non-student business.

A supermarket is one of the potential uses listed for the old hospital site.