It's a nice thing that College Park has slowly becoming into a
real college town.
"The Camden College Park complex, located just north of the Beltway and Ikea, promises the addition of 508 luxury apartment units, 12 townhouses and space for offices, restaurant and retail..."
Only probelm, where's the rest of the college park community? The Non-Affluent?
"...city planner Terry Schum said the development is aimed at serving a well-heeled - and less transient - demographic."
"The development that came in involves housing - family housing - which the city believes it needs more of ... to serve a more upscale market," Schum said. "The city supported it, the county supported it and now it's happening."
OK he said that the development involves family housing. But to what families? Affulent upper-middle class families? Did you know that there are 19.9% of the College Park population is below the poverty line? That's 4097 people in this city. These are the people that should most benefit from this if it was built as a public housing community. A one that has living, shopping, and transport all in one place. But no that's not going to happen.
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