Go  HERE to read a great article by the Natural Rescources Defense Council ( NRDC) on walkability which features a review of Congress Heights.

Excerpt:

"...The tour was mostly good news involving encouraging redevelopment, pleasant densification, and restoration of the neighborhood fabric. Part of the good news – and it is very good indeed – is that Congress Heights finally got a Giant supermarket two years ago, after going for more than a decade without a supermarket. The bad news is that it was built to a very suburban, automobile-oriented configuration, a long way back from the street. There are also some nice-looking, neighborhood-serving businesses on the same site but they, too, are separated from the neighborhood by parking..."


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