Now that Barnes & Noble has closed at Bethesda Row, the sign is being removed from the facade of the building. It's not yet known what structural and cosmetic changes next tenant Anthropologie will make to the building, or how the outdoor cafe seating will fit with the existing plaza and water feature.
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#TheDarkSideOfBarnes&Noble
Any update on MC 27-18?
Any truth to the rumor the Apple Store is moving to Pike and Rose?
Five years ago, who could have predicted that White Flint Dead Mall would become the second headquarters for one of the largest, and soon to be THE largest, corporation in the world?
8:12 I predicted it. You really should follow me on Twitter.
8:18 - Amazing. Sorry I missed it. I am following you starting now.
What was your prediction regarding the Westwoodbard shopping center?
Why no coverage on Higher Logic's acquisition of Bethesda based Real Magnet? For us association folk its all anyone is talking about - I hear they are relocating them all to VA ... so more decent jobs lost in Bethesda?
Meanwhile crickets from Dyer on Larry Hogan offering $5 billion in incentives for Amazon. Wonder if all these people will over pay for homes in Springfield, thanks to the quality of life and great connection to Westbard, Bethesda and the Crescent Trail?
With the Westbard Purple Line station, it will be a two-seat ride to AMZHQ2!
9:31: Wasn't that announced last fall? You're absolutely correct it can take jobs from us. But for my own purposes, I don't try to pin blame for acquisitions one way or the other. It doesn't qualify as Real Magnet fleeing the county for Virginia. Likewise, I don't count it as Virginia gaining a company. It's a business deal, as opposed to Virginia poaching a headquarters.
11:04: I'm still trying to get to the details - one report said 40000 of the jobs had to be $100,000 or more in salary; another said $60,000 or more. We've got to make sure we factor in the school and infrastructure costs, and what all the salaries are, so that we don't end up in the red on this deal.
Some of the wiser real estate folks in the area are actually predicting homes in 20816 will drop in price, specifically due to the new tax law. Oklahomans are no longer going to subsidize the inflated real estate prices and ridiculously-high property taxes of Montgomery County.
8:12: White Flint wasn't a "dead mall" until Lerner pulled the plug on it intentionally. It was "fully-leased" up to that point, according to Lerner themselves at that time.
7:50: No, because the Montgomery delegation held a secret session with no transcript or video.
8:06: Only if Tim Cook has lost his wits.
"Oklahomans are no longer going to subsidize the inflated real estate prices and ridiculously-high property taxes of Montgomery County."
Holy shit. This is amazing how you spun around the truth on this. It's not "Blue areas with productive economies that provide real services subsidizing Oklahoma" (the truth) but "Oklahoma was subsidizing us (with what? cattle ranchers?) because we have higher local taxes." You sir should be a segment producer for Sean Hannity.
"White Flint was fully leased"
No it wasn't. They had just lost one of their three anchors a few months earlier, and lost another within a few weeks of the closure announcement in November 2011, suggesting that the decision to close the latter store had actually been made earlier.
White Flint was doomed the moment that Macy's built the Bloomingdales in the old Hechts/Woodies site in Friendshio Heights, in 2007.
5:35: Yes, it was fully leased prior to the closures you refer to. Let's not try to warp the space-time continuum to put events out of order.
5:09: No spin - it was the longstanding fake claims that "blue states are subsidizing the red states" that finally imploded with the passage of the new tax bill. It turns out Americans across the country were being saddled with higher taxes to subsidize well-off professionals in blue states. This also allowed jurisdictions like Montgomery County to cover massive tax hikes with the fig leaf of deductions.
This year, the blue state tax subsidies are being sent back to low and middle class Americans in the form of tax cuts.
Now MoCo residents will begin to truly turn their wrath on our impotent and incompetent County Council, when the full cost of these taxes finally hits home like a ton of bricks.
Also, we had the bonus of the Montgomery County Council admitting that A) they are charging us too much in taxes, so much that they had to [try to] provide relief [but failed in humiliating fashion, B) don't know federal tax law, C) didn't "ask an actual person" at the IRS before acting, and D) had no clue all this time how many of their constituents are paying excessive property taxes.
"If it's what you say, I love it." - Donald Trump, Jr.
Oh no, no, no. It used to be a level playing field. Pay $50 in state taxes - subtract $50 from your Federal taxable income. Pay $15,000 - subtract *15,000. Pay $0 - subtract $0.
Now, it's Pay $50 - subtract $50. Pay $15,000 - subtract $10,000. In that case, your taxable income just went up $5,000. At 22%, that's an additional $1,100 in Federal taxes. And no longer a level field.
You just quoted DJT Jr talking about receiving treasonous information from Russia.
SMDH
7:11: It wasn't fair at all. Tennessee, for example, has property taxes about 50% of what Montgomery County is charging. Meanwhile, Montgomery residents were deducting their outrageous taxes, denying those funds to the military, poor, children, police, teachers and firefighters, as they said Trump was on his own returns.
To make up for that lost revenue, the federal government had to charge folks in Tennessee and elsewhere higher federal taxes. The new tax changes have now taken a step to correct that, by increasing taxes on the jurisdictions overcharging their residents for property taxes, and returning the blue state subsidies to the wallets of the red state taxpayers who were subsidizing our high property taxes.
7:15: No treasonous information was received by Don Jr. Meeting was set up by a clear double/triple foreign agent working for the Deep State, Rob Goldstone, as part of the FBI's "insurance policy," as the Clinton-allied FBI man himself said in text message.
"It would just be very bad, a terrible precedent to start trying to jail your political opponent after an election." - Douglas Brinkley, before Election Day 2016
You don't understand how it works.
You are WRONG.
Tell me, just how were folks in TN being charged more? Explain it to me. Use numbers.
Stop drinking the kool-aid. That quote is what Jr said when he attempted to get alleged candidate information from a foreign government. Which is treason. You don't have to get the info. Just like you don't have to be successful to be charged with attempt. You have a brain of your own. Use it.
Don't even get me started on how the doubled standard deduction will benefit those in lower taxed states more than higher taxed states.
The founders of Higher Logic live in Bethesda - the business climate for a High Tech business is far better in Rosslyn/NoVa
Rosslyn? LOL. Extremely high office vacancy rate.
8:18: I think you're making my point that the new tax changes overwhelmingly benefit the "red states" who were previously subsidizing high-tax blue states.
8:15: You seem to think that there are no upper-middle/upper class people and tycoons living in red states. They, along with low and middle class red state residents, were all paying higher federal income taxes, while well-off blue state residents were deducting their local and state taxes. Most agree that, unless you are tycoon-level rich and have all those tax-avoidance tricks at your disposal, the tax changes are raising taxes for Montgomery County residents, and clearly a win for those in lower-tax red states.
It's the fans of Deep State stooge Mueller who have overindulged on the Kool Aid. He has spent millions and come up with zero on Trump. Red in the face, Mueller is now resorting to digging into Trump's business deals. It also sounds like if there is any charge against Trump, it will be a kangaroo court Hail Mary of charging him for being entrapped in an investigation about something Trump didn't do to begin with. A.k.a. "our back-up plan," as the FBI text revealed (before the Deep State deleted the rest of texts LOL).
"It would just be very bad, a terrible precedent to start trying to jail your political opponent after an election." - Douglas Brinkley, before Election Day 2016
9:27: Rosslyn kicked the MoCo Council's [briefcase] last year.
Real Magnet/Higher Logic are paying way less taxes in Virginia. And are actually near highways with Express Lanes and have direct access to Dulles Airport in Virginia.
"Mueller is now resorting to digging into Trump's business deals."
Why is this a bad thing?
"It also sounds like if there is any charge against Trump, it will be a kangaroo court Hail Mary of charging him for being entrapped in an investigation about something Trump didn't do to begin with. A.k.a. "our back-up plan," as the FBI text revealed (before the Deep State deleted the rest of texts LOL)."
One sentence. 58 words. #ArgleBargle
"a kangaroo court Hail Mary of charging him for being entrapped in an investigation about something Trump didn't do to begin with."
Ignoring, for a moment, the utter incoherence of what you just wrote - you don't seem to understand what the word "entrapped" actually means. Perhaps you meant "framed"?
7:11: You could use either word, depending what specific action of the Deep State you're looking at. The attempt to set up fake meetings with the idea of cross-referencing them later with testimony by those individuals was indeed entrapment. Using foreign agents (Rob Goldstone, George PapadoubleAgent) to entrap is also treason. Hiring an agent of a foreign power (Christopher Steele) to investigate your election opponent (if you're Hillary Clinton) or a presidential candidate you disfavor (if you're the FBI) is treason, as well. Politicizing the FBI, and then using it to take down a political opponent, is all kind of illegal. That's the real scandal. Those are the folks who should be getting arrested in pre-dawn raids.
The FBI/CIA scandal here is literally bigger than Watergate. Who would have imagined in the 1970s that the Pentagon Papers/Watergate Washington Post would wind up as one of two media mouthpieces for the same Deep State they were doggedly investigating and exposing back then? It's unreal.
"It would just be very bad, a terrible precedent to start trying to jail your political opponent after an election." - Douglas Brinkley, before Election Day 2016
You still don't get it. Stop trying to muddy the waters by deflecting to Mueller.
The more you prattle on, the more your ignorance shows.
"Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar the state sent to Washington in 2015, according to the Rockefeller study. West Virginia received $2.07, Kentucky got $1.90 and South Carolina got $1.71.
Meanwhile, New Jersey received 74 cents in federal spending for tax every dollar the state sent to Washington. New York received 81 cents, Connecticut received 82 cents and Massachusetts received 83 cents."
https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c
What is a "fake meeting", Dyer?
And you still don't understand what the term "entrap" actually means.
There is no deep-state. It's disgusting that you would attack fellow citizens who devote themselves to public service. The Trump team have borrowed an extremely sinister phrase to describe how the government legitimately operates.
“People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted
in matters that are great.” — Albert Einstein
7:42: That's the old propaganda that didn't include the impact of blue state tax deductions.
Mueller isn't a deflection; he is a major player in the Deep State, which plotted this coup against Trump (despite believing he wouldn't win - it was what they called their "insurance policy," according to an FBI text) from the beginning. Clapper, Hayden, etc.
7:54: Trust me, I know the difference between the Deep State - a cabal of high-level folks at these various intelligence agencies - and the rank-and-file agents. I've known several intelligence agents over the years, and they were patriotic Americans. They wouldn't be involved in directing something like this. Having said that, under folks like Mueller, the hiring and promotion processes at the FBI have been changed to give the Deep State more control. That's what puts openly-political people like Strzok, Page and McCabe in these key positions.
It's frightening that you actually believe it.
Every liar starts with "Trust me." FACT.
7:51: One where Trump campaign staff, Don Jr., and a Russian lawyer are all lured to a meeting by a foreign agent (Rob Goldstone), to find that none of them have a clue why they are there? And it was set up by Goldstone solely to be used later by a Comey-Mueller coup, er, investigation?
8:04: Have you heard of Operation Northwoods, which was rejected by President Kennedy?
"The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."
- J. Edgar Hoover, Nov. 24, 1963
Now THAT'S frightening.
Gay Edgar Hoover died in 1971, Mang.
Dyer @ 8:15 AM - So who killed JFK? I heard it was 49 Italian sharpshooters.
8:35: Fortunately, we have his memo from 1963.
Fortunately, we have copies of all our posts, even the ones that mysteriously and inexplicably disappear.
So Dyer - you beleive that Hoover's memo is proof that Oswald was "entrapped", as you use that word?
And do you believe that Oswald and Trump are equivalent? That's an interesting notion.
Speaking of memos - let's put everything on hold until our government agrees to #ReleaseTheMemo so that we the people can see what our government has been up to.
10:30: Such as what, *****?
10:53: I can't even make sense of that word salad. Who said Oswald was entrapped and equivalent to Trump? Just you. The topic was the credibility and integrity of the Deep State.
3:40: Your repeated posting of such a vile, vulgar and obscene comment reveals what kind of person you are. The abuse and cyberbullying I'm subjected to for challenging the MoCo political machine is obscene in itself. America would be shocked to find out the monsters who are the real faces of Montgomery County's elected officials and their staffs.
Where are the vile, vulgar and obscene parts of my post you keep deleting?
There aren't any. I even cleaned up the quote and removed the cuss-words before ever posting it.
This isn't about the "MoCo machine" I'm holding you to task for your ridiculous comment that you know more than the IC.
Now you can keep deleting my comment, lying about what it says, fabricating my motivations, all this to bolster your ego and make me look like a villain.
HOGWASH.
Anyone who read it knows you're not telling the truth.
Blogger Anna said...
"Trust me. I know the difference between the Deep State - a cabal of high-
level folks at these various intelligence agencies - and the rank-and-file agents" - Dyer @ 8:03
Well then, let's just send you over to the agencies so you can point each one of them out.
Sometimes I wonder if your butt is jealous of all the crap that comes out of
your mouth.
8:53 AM
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