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I'm having a home built in Suitland, MD at the moment. This area is prime for change. It is walking distance to a metro station. It is right across the street from a huge federal campus called "Suitland Federal Center". The headquarters of the Census Bureau is here for example. I did a test drive from the neighborhood before buying and was able to drive to the Navy Yard/Water Front in under 15 min. It was a legit 12 minutes to the Nationals baseball Park. This was on Saturday on a game day. It is also the same distance or even less to the revitalizing Anacostia Neighborhood in SE DC. I checked out the new Busboys & Poets that opened there and it was dope. The neighborhood also has a local elementary school prime for change. This combined with the planned redevelopment going on is insane. I got a 4 bed, 3.5 bath, 2 car garage, 4 story, roof top deck townhouse. Price makes me laugh at people without kids paying 3500 a month for a 2 bedroom in Navy Yard.

Here is what I think will happen. The first is immediate increased economic diversity coming to this area. Reality is money talks. Federal employees and contractors that work across the street have already been buying homes. This neighborhood will shorten the commute for many people. Bowie, Upper Marlboro,and Mitchellville, and Woodmore is cool, but it is still far as hell from the city due to traffic. This neighborhood is sitting right outside of DC. It is literally like an Arlington Crystal City when it comes to closeness to DC. I met some of my future neighbors who have bought and it seems like a lot of younger people and young couples will be living here.

The elementary school is right across the street. I plan on doing this and so this others I talked to. Spend time volunteering at the school. It is currently lower ranked and high farms(free and reduced meals), but the economic influence will change that if parents and volunteers fight for the school instead of just going to private. Property taxes are high in Prince George's I refuse that. I'm going to fight for improving what my taxes go toward. Studies show the lower the farm rate the better the test scores. Also lower economic kids mixed with higher economic kids increases the lower economic kids grades and test scores. I'm fighting my butt off for this school to be great. When greatschools.org ratings go up, so does your property value. Being super far out from the city ain't the future. Being close in near a metro stop is. PG is really improving.

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground
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Jeff Clabaugh | @wtopclabaugh

November 16, 2017, 10:23 AM

  • WASHINGTON — Prince George’s County officials break ground Thursday on Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, called the largest redevelopment project in the Maryland county’s history.

    Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, at 4730 Homer Ave., is a 1-million-square-foot, mixed-use development that will include close to 900 apartments and single family homes, 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 50,000-square-foot performing arts center.

    It has the potential of being a big economic driver for Suitland.

    “Over the last 20 years, there have been many attempts to create the right development for Suitland, and we are finally making it happen,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker.

    “This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for. I have been telling folks to ‘buy Suitland’ for the last few years and this project will be the foundation of what we hope will be the rebirth of Suitland,” he said.

    Prince George’s County says the economic impact of the project will be more than $400 million in construction costs and will create 1,200 construction jobs.


  • “This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker. (Courtesy Prince George’s County)
    The Town Square at Suitland Federal Center project recently won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for Master Planning and Landscaping, and is considered a premier example of sustainable master planning.

    Phase one of the project will include construction, set to begin in early 2018, of for-sale town houses by Reston, Virginia-based homebuilder NVR and a senior apartment building by developer Mission First.

    Phase two, scheduled for 2020, will include the addition of 540 apartments.

    Phase three will include the retail space and performing arts center.

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP
 

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I'm having a home built in Suitland, MD at the moment. This area is prime for change. It is walking distance to a metro station. It is right across the street from a huge federal campus called "Suitland Federal Center". The headquarters of the Census Bureau is here for example. I did a test drive from the neighborhood before buying and was able to drive to the Navy Yard/Water Front in under 15 min. It was a legit 12 minutes to the Nationals baseball Park. This was on Saturday on a game day. It is also the same distance or even less to the revitalizing Anacostia Neighborhood in SE DC. I checked out the new Busboys & Poets that opened there and it was dope. The neighborhood also has a local elementary school prime for change. This combined with the planned redevelopment going on is insane. I got a 4 bed, 3.5 bath, 2 car garage, 4 story, roof top deck townhouse. Price makes me laugh at people without kids paying 3500 a month for a 2 bedroom in Navy Yard.

Here is what I think will happen. The first is immediate increased economic diversity coming to this area. Reality is money talks. Federal employees and contractors that work across the street have already been buying homes. This neighborhood will shorten the commute for many people. Bowie, Upper Marlboro,and Mitchellville, and Woodmore is cool, but it is still far as hell from the city due to traffic. This neighborhood is sitting right outside of DC. It is literally like an Arlington Crystal City when it comes to closeness to DC. I met some of my future neighbors who have bought and it seems like a lot of younger people and young couples will be living here.

The elementary school is right across the street. I plan on doing this and so this others I talked to. Spend time volunteering at the school. It is currently lower ranked and high farms(free and reduced meals), but the economic influence will change that if parents and volunteers fight for the school instead of just going to private. Property taxes are high in Prince George's I refuse that. I'm going to fight for improving what my taxes go toward. Studies show the lower the farm rate the better the test scores. Also lower economic kids mixed with higher economic kids increases the lower economic kids grades and test scores. I'm fighting my butt off for this school to be great. When greatschools.org ratings go up, so does your property value. Being super far out from the city ain't the future. Being close in near a metro stop is. PG is really improving.

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground
Clabaugh_Jeff15-1-112x112.jpg



Jeff Clabaugh | @wtopclabaugh

November 16, 2017, 10:23 AM

  • WASHINGTON — Prince George’s County officials break ground Thursday on Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, called the largest redevelopment project in the Maryland county’s history.

    Town Square at Suitland Federal Center, at 4730 Homer Ave., is a 1-million-square-foot, mixed-use development that will include close to 900 apartments and single family homes, 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 50,000-square-foot performing arts center.

    It has the potential of being a big economic driver for Suitland.

    “Over the last 20 years, there have been many attempts to create the right development for Suitland, and we are finally making it happen,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker.

    “This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for. I have been telling folks to ‘buy Suitland’ for the last few years and this project will be the foundation of what we hope will be the rebirth of Suitland,” he said.

    Prince George’s County says the economic impact of the project will be more than $400 million in construction costs and will create 1,200 construction jobs.


  • “This new Town Square at Suitland Federal Center will be the spark that will ignite the Suitland community that residents have been longing for,” said Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker. (Courtesy Prince George’s County)
    The Town Square at Suitland Federal Center project recently won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for Master Planning and Landscaping, and is considered a premier example of sustainable master planning.

    Phase one of the project will include construction, set to begin in early 2018, of for-sale town houses by Reston, Virginia-based homebuilder NVR and a senior apartment building by developer Mission First.

    Phase two, scheduled for 2020, will include the addition of 540 apartments.

    Phase three will include the retail space and performing arts center.

Pr. George’s County’s ‘largest redevelopment project’ breaks ground | WTOP

So I’m assuming you’re a developer?
 

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Bethesda and Columbia are a 30+ min drive during rush hour EASILY from the upper class black neighborhoods you want to live in. Make it more like 1+ hour. Not sure how long the commute is from Bowie to Annapolis but that would be the shortest drive. Traffic is terrible out here b.
He can live in a black neighborhood in PG and commute to all of those places comfortably. Not Bethesda in under 30 but purple line soon come and plenty people commute from pg to Columbia and annapolis
 

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So I’m assuming you’re a developer?

Not that type of developer. I'm a software developer/engineer. 6 figures 6 certs :jawalrus:

Just pretty hype because of the idea of black gentrification. Being the owner and renting it out in the future. We often sit on the sidelines waiting for other people to make moves first. Hyattsville aka the "Arts District" was made a hot place in PG when the "silky hairs" figured out the value you can get there.

It's not government work that pays, its government contractors.

Ah..... so the pay is higher with government contractors who are not relegated to the govenrment payscale. I didn’t really realize this.

Facts.
 

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Yeah nikkas in here saluting but if this is where the top black neighborhoods are then black ppl really ain’t doing well unfortunately. My pops lives in Lake Arbor and I have two uncles who live in Woodmore. They’re doing good for themselves but none of them have a net worth over a million dollars or even close to it.

More than likely unless it was given to you then you won’t have over a mill in net worth

So I don’t get your point
 
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Not that type of developer. I'm a software developer/engineer. 6 figures 6 certs :jawalrus:

Just pretty hype because of the idea of black gentrification. Being the owner and renting it out in the future. We often sit on the sidelines waiting for other people to make moves first. Hyattsville aka the "Arts District" was made a hot place in PG when the "silky hairs" figured out the value you can get there.





Facts.

Was speaking about the Art District with my friend whose originally from DC the other day.
 

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I find it bizarre that we don't talk about this subject more often. With all the racism going on isn't the best thing to do is live among your people? These are nice, livable, upper class neighborhoods with a majority black demographic. We should all be flocking there. Tired of being the only black guy in the neighborhood and having the cops called on me every time I take out the trash.

Edit: Was looking at software engineering jobs in Maryland: https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=java&l=maryland

Some jobs are in Annapolis, Columbus, Bethesda, etc. Some of these are mostly white places. Is it feasible to live in a black neighborhood in PG county and drive to work to some of these places? (provided the drive isn't super long like 30+ minutes)
I live in PG County, 5 minutes from Woodmore/Mitchellville etc.. I work between buildings in Bethesda and Tysons. Both drives are about 26 miles, takes 45 minutes at 6am. Coming home at 2:30 the drive is between 1hr and 1.5 hr depending on if the Nats play. You get used to it.
A 30 minute commute to and from a high paying job in the DMV is miraculous lol. Although if you got work at Bolling AFB or the Census Bureau in Suitland you'd be looking at 20 minutes each way.
 

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Big yikes.



The wealthiest black community is here and this CRAP happens? SOMETHING is WRONG with this

PG county police department has always had an issue with Racism, and brutality that goes back for decades.

I am from Prince Georges County, MD and I remember many years ago like perhaps 30 years ago there was a problem with the police being racists and the department was predominantly white.


This was even more so the case after Terrence Johnson a black suspect shot and killed two white police officers right inside of the police station during an interrogation. The racist white police officers retaliated by taking it out on the black community. That was eventually rectified by revamping the department and hiring more black police officers.


So I guess since they can no longer inflict their racism on the community b/c PG County is predominantly black and so are the police officers, I guess they instead inflict it upon their fellow black police officers. Maybe this white police chief is a remnant of the previous racist department.

Their is a history behind The Prince George's County Police Department that dates back over 55 years . The county borders DC just so you have an idea of the location . The department has a history of brutality and racism going back to the late 50's early 60's . Racial Profiling was in vogue long before it became a catch phrase in Prince George County . White police officers often abused black citizens , and brutality was common so much so that my parents forbid us to drive into the county ( we lived in DC right on the border of the county ). My sister and her husband brought a home in the county in 1970 my mom and dad were very upset when they found out . As time went by the county demographics changed from white to black and the department did so also , some black cops new to the force wanted to impress their white peers so they were especially exacting on their black brothers and sisters . I bought into a franchised car dealership in 1991 that was located in the county . I will say that the black officers who patrolled my business were excellent and always showed me courtesy and respect , during the 8 years i owned the business i never had car stolen NEVER !!!! . Both my sons live in the county now ( i live in Atlanta,Ga. ) and had been telling me their seeing more white officers now patrolling black neighborhoods, my oldest son telling me "they are white and younger" which basically means their has been a recruitment drive . Their was an article in the Washington Post concerning the white police chief's lack of empathy toward issue's concerning the black community these issues included excessive force, disrespect, racial profiling , among others . I must say having been born and raised in DC and having lived in the county ( Mitchellville ) i was surprised at the article .

It makes no sense that a predominantly eurapean force can work in a predominantly Black community
The inverse would never be allowed

If they treat miniority officers imagine people on the street

I have always said white america is not used to dealing with succesful blacks.
 

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as an dmv resident, aint nothing special bout them areas, just houses and nothing else, no real great parks or librabries, no real shopping district, terrible public transportation access and schools that are worse than econimically lesser areas in mo county. gotta love pg county:francis:
 

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Big yikes.



Not surprised at all. I remember a long time ago some PG county cops beat the brakes off of an off duty DC cop right in front of Ebony Inn. And not a damn thing was done about it either. Also, PG County is one of the few police agencies that you can join up at 18 right outta high school so it ain't surprising to see "young and white" filling up their ranks.
 

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Not surprised at all. I remember a long time ago some PG county cops beat the brakes off of an off duty DC cop right in front of Ebony Inn. And not a damn thing was done about it either. Also, PG County is one of the few police agencies that you can join up at 18 right outta high school so it ain't surprising to see "young and white" filling up their ranks.

What's the point of living in a upper class black neighborhood but you're still being harassed by racist white cops? That's why I asked about the cops in my last posts.
 

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What's the point of living in a upper class black neighborhood but you're still being harassed by racist white cops? That's why I asked about the cops in my last posts.
Name one place in America where the cops don’t harass black folks :stopitslime:
 

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no Atlanta... strange :jbhmm:

Atlanta smoke and mirrors

There’s many doing well out here in ATL, but yes, many are faking the funk. That’s not only an ATL issue, though. Many of us are faking the funk, trying to keep up with the joneses. The numbers show the truth, though.

As an Atlantan, the sh1t was always a myth. I will leave it at that...

As a native South Dekalb-er I will admit there is prosperity but Atlanta is a huge place and the well to do pockets aren't as concentrated as say, Maryland. Also, until recently Atlanta was much lower cost of living so the salaries weren't commiserate with what MD got. Government jobs in ATL are typically local or state not federal and don't pay nearly as well or have generous tenure.

That being said, if you take Maryland out of the mix, Atlanta still has a good number of well off Black areas relative to the rest of the country. Sad thing is we are poor as a people so while a lot of Atlanta is fake and debt tricking it is better than most other metros. You have a few prosperous majority Black areas with median household income around $100k like the neighborhoods south of Snellville, parts of Dekalb like in parts of Redan/Stone Mountain or near Cedar Grove, and actually Westbridge in Fayetteville/Riverdale for all the hate that area gets (though it is on the Fayette not Clayton side).



List is a sham.

Town that I was born in, Olympia Fields, IL, has a median income higher than Woodmore, MD.

And I’m sure Flossmoor, IL is up there, too.

Olympia Fields is an oversight, the issue is PG has so many more neighborhoods with high income. Median Black income in Olympia Fields is in the low-mid $100s though while Woodmore is in the $200s. Richest Black neighborhood by far.

PG County represented well on that list

My mom and aunt live in Clinton, MD...I knew Rosaryville and Maryland in general was gonna shyt on everything.

The DMV metro area in general shyts on just about everyone.

Like others have mentioned, government salaries = MD dominating this list.
As someone who lived in some of these places. Blacks stability is less than zero here. A lot are just a furlough away from being in deep shyt.

Some of these are just Bowie as well

53% of the majority Black census tracts (roughly neighborhoods) that have household income >$100k are in PG. Nowhere else is even close though Charles County, and Queens/Kings/Nassau in NY have a high single digits proportion of such areas.

Bad thing is if the federal government/contracting has a Woodrow Wilson moment where Blacks lose tenure and get purged (like that Heritage Foundation 2025 plan) PG is going to be in a world of hurt (as well as the other MD counties).
 

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Olympia Fields is an oversight, the issue is PG has so many more neighborhoods with high income. Median Black income in Olympia Fields is in the low-mid $100s though while Woodmore is in the $200s. Richest Black neighborhood by far.


53% of the majority Black census tracts (roughly neighborhoods) that have household income >$100k are in PG. Nowhere else is even close though Charles County, and Queens/Kings/Nassau in NY have a high single digits proportion of such areas.

Bad thing is if the federal government/contracting has a Woodrow Wilson moment where Blacks lose tenure and get purged (like that Heritage Foundation 2025 plan) PG is going to be in a world of hurt (as well as the other MD counties).

Yeah, government contracting is how a ton of black people made it to middle class and beyond. It's overindexed in DC, so if one of those front-runners in the republican primary win, they are going to try their hardest to gut the federal government and subsequent contractors. PG will flip into rustbelt territory overnight.
 
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