Hey Yupette,
Arlington's new Economic Development Director, Victor Hoskins, briefed the Arlington Planning Commission tonight about his and AED's agenda for Arlington's economic development over the next five years. Basically, it's recruiting high tech Millennial-owned start-up corporations from all over the world to locate and re-locate in Arlington -- especially in those old vacant office buildings in Crystal City. Tens of thousands more Millennials are in Arlington's future. Nothing at all mentioned about the impact of more - 30,000 or so - just-out-of-college Millennials on Arlington's public infrastructure, especially the already-stressed Arlington Public Schools. Oh well, County Board and School Board will get around to handling the resulting crises when they occur.
Youtube video is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPcUfnizduU
Thanks for your blog,
Pike Rider 22204
39 comments:
Victor Hoskins lives in Georgetown and is essentially clueless about Arlington.
Yeah...Trolley Pub as a leading economic indicator of Arlington's "future".
Yeah...let's bring in a big bunch of Hipster start-ups that will crash and burn the moment the next recession hits.
Nothing whatsoever stated by Victor Hoskins about the effects on Arlington (especially on APS) from bringing 30,000 more urban hipsters into Arlington.
Well, I for one, TOTALLY OPPOSE whatever the latest Smart Growth $#!+ Head the County Board hired has to say about anything related to redevelopment in Arlington.
Happy Cinco de Mayo.
County Board members have been junketing to Millenial recruitment expos around the USA the past few months, in the event you wondered what they've been up to when they aren't facilitating the latest corporate welfare packages at 2100 Clarendon Blvd.
When will Victor Hoskins brief the School Board, if he hasn't already?
Yes, a key component of recruiting Millennials to Arlington will be a generous new corporate welfare system for their start-ups.
Yup, Arlington will offer a vibrant post-college college experience without any of the restraints on behavior typically found on college campuses.
Who does this benefit? Vornado and the other owners of older buildings in Rosslyn and Crystal City.
County's unemployment rate is presently 3%. County is about out of open space, affordable housing, school capacity. What happens to our quality-of-life when 30,000 more upscale Hipsters get packed into about 6 square miles?
You can bet your kid's 529 college fund that the benefits from the planned financial shenanigans won't cost the Crystal City REITs a dime.
This website is ironic as hell. Arlington's old worn out yuppy hipsters complaining about Arlington's future yuppie hipsters.
Arlington became overpriced for average working class Americans decades ago.
Now that Arlington is becoming a playground for the super well-off and free-spending youngsters, the older residents who had no problem pricing out those less well-off hear the bell tolling for them.
To bad, so sad. Sympathy for thee? Nope.
I am 43 years old. Do you even live in Arlington? Or do you live in Annandale, commute to work alone in your SUV, and spend your work days at 2100 Clarendon Blvd posting comments to blogs?
It's the 20-something yupsters who just had a kid who are being priced out.
Send Victor Hoskins to Baltimore where he is desperately needed.
Occasionally a County employee gets tired of posting comments to ArlNow and posts one here.
I have to go with the comment that a woman made at the Pike Future Forum last week. I moved here to live a suburban, not urban, lifestyle.
Leave my quiet residential neighborhood the hell alone.
Federal, State, Local Government, and REITs have had 10 years to do something about BRAC vacancies, so what's their solution - taxpayer funded corporate welfare of various kinds.
KAUFFMAN INDEX OF Entrepreneurial Activity 1996–2013 (2014) http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/
research%20reports%20and%20covers/2014/
04/kiea_2014_report.pdf
All of the age groups experienced declines in business creation rates, except for the forty-five to fifty-four age group, which experienced an increase from 0.34 percent to 0.36 percent. … An aging population has led to a rising share of new entrepreneurs in the ages fifty-five to sixty-four group. The ages fifty- five to sixty-four group represented 18.7 percent of new entrepreneurs in 2003, whereas it represented 23.4 percent of new entrepreneurs in 2013. The next-oldest age group (ages forty-five to fifty-four) also experienced a rising share of new entrepreneurs (25.2 percent in 2003 to 30.0 percent in 2013).
Hoskins et. al. are not going after 50-somethings. They are going after Millennials born about 1990.
What was appalling about last night's Planning Commission meeting was that two agenda items involved permanent street closures in order to use the streets for open space - for ART Bus parking and for Mosaic Park. Hoskins said nothing in his presentation about the effects of the Millennials who moved to Arlington over the past 6 years on the quality of life in our County, e.g., stress on open space.
Looks to me like Hoskins is launching an attempt to solve the REITs' office vacancy problem once and for all with no attention at all paid to the social and economic consequences except for more and better recreation and entertainment for Millennials.
Thumbs up to Nancy Iacomini and Steve Cole for expressing skepticism.
Call the County Manager's Office and have them put Hoskins's presentation on the County's Web site --- 703-228-3120.
Victor Hoskins is the latest in a series of Smart Growth Gurus - like his predecessors Peter Katz and Victor Dover.
Much dismay heard at tonight's Civic Federation meeting at the prospect of Millennials taking over Arlington and using the entire County as a Hipster entertainment zone.
Bottom line - Hoskins is recruiting urban hipsters from all over the World to re-fuel Arlington's Smart Growth bubble.
We should expect at least 35,000 K-12 students enrolled in Arlington public schools in 10 years.
What a huge charade the Democrats are pulling on Arlington residents. We are going to be massively in-filled and urbanized.
Economic development? Why do I have to drive 5 miles from South Arlington to North Arlington to the nearest hardware store?
This leads me to speculate that Mary Hynes and Walter Tejada will go from being Smart Growth Boosters thus year to Smart Growth Lobbyists next year.
I live in Cleremont, just across Walter Reed Drive from Fairlington. Why do I have to drive to Alexandria or North Arlington for basic products and services?
So instead of finding a new owner for the Public Shoe Store in Clarendon, Economic Development will find a bar or restaurant to replace the store. What kind of "Economic Development" is that?
What, 28,000 single family detached homes in Arlington and about 6 places in Arlington where you can buy a bag of mulch for your garden if you own a single family detached home?
The Democratic contenders for County Board are still complaining about the Pike streetcar? Why should I vote for any of them?
Columbia Pike looking like a dump? Time to dump CPRO, not give CPRO more money to waste complaining at meetings.
Put some double deck tourist buses on the Pike.
There's now an immediate care affiliated with MedStar across King Street from South Fairlington.
W O W ! !
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