http://www.snipesproperties.com/massive-apartment-buildup-coming-shockoe-bottom/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.snipesproperties.com/massive-apartment-buildup-coming-shockoe-bottom/#comment-381 Formerly SBD Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:05:41 +0000 http://www.snipesproperties.com/?p=1991#comment-381 Baseball was just the lure for a land grab and nothing more. Shockoe Bottom did not need a Ballpark and frankly it does not need overdevelopment but everyone insists that their project will lower prices in the market and when I was living there it was the exact opposite. I sort of got tired of paying close to a grand a month for less than 600 square feet of living space. I now own my house and have 1200 square feet and pay less. I still eat at the places I did when I live there but now I can afford to actually eat. Baseball was just the lure for a land grab and nothing more. Shockoe Bottom did not need a Ballpark and frankly it does not need overdevelopment but everyone insists that their project will lower prices in the market and when I was living there it was the exact opposite. I sort of got tired of paying close to a grand a month for less than 600 square feet of living space. I now own my house and have 1200 square feet and pay less. I still eat at the places I did when I live there but now I can afford to actually eat.

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