I don't think anyone, including the media (except for Express) cares anymore about anything at DC USA except for Target. I haven't even heard much buzz about Best Buy, which should be a pretty big deal. Could it indeed be because Target has everything all of those other stores offer? I dunno...

"It's still not necessarily a place you'd want to be after dark," I take major offense to this, as a resident of Columbia Heights. Murders happen in Georgetown...shouldn't I then be afraid to be there after dark? This article paints my neighborhood to be a violent place that isn't safe. I live here, and I feel completely safe, and it's changed A LOT. Shame on the author to demonize my home.

As another resident of Columbia Heights, I'm pleased to see a member of our 4th Estate rightly pointing out that CH is not a place where one should feel safe after dark. The neighborhood is still a hell-hole and it behooves the media to point this out, since our municipal government sure doesn't seem to care.

I'm a Columbia Heights resident as well, and the comment about this neighborhood not being a place to be after dark is ridiculous. I just walked back from The Heights to get dinner for takeout IN THE DARK. And there sure were a lot of family's and young singles that looked happy to be there at night too.... And you see about 100 bikes with wheels for every "sad wheel-less skeleton". It's so stupid how everyone in the DC suburbs looks to Columbia Heights as a place to talk about how dangerous the city is, now that a Target is here and the news actually reports on it.

Whoever wrote this lovely intro obviously has no knowledge about the District. Thanks for making Columbia Heights sound like Navy Yard pre-stadium. You've painted a picture of an abandoned streetscape and a lone flickering street lamp barely lighting someone's "unsafe" walk home. In case you haven't noticed, Columbia Heights has become pedestrian central -- all colors, income groups and ages, AND at all times of the day -- and the neighborhood has attracted new residents from all over the place for quite some time. Way before the Target justified it's place in the world. I suppose you don't consider last night's jumbo slice or wristbands all over Adams Morgan sidewalks "grimy." Have you ever seen remnants of a stolen bike in Arlington? How about Cleveland Park? You have? Yeah, I thought so.

Fiona Zublin author of this article and introduction to CH as a place you wouldn't want to be after dark is off base. Such descriptions of this booming neighborhood is inappopriate and offensive. CH has always been a neighborhood rich with culture and people. Only recently has the city invested in this, and we are all reaping the rewards. To Fiona, I know being a recent graduate of GW is difficult, but before you talk such things about DC neighborhoods try moving out of your Alexandria row house and living here. Ridiculous.