At last night’s Ward 3 Democrats meeting, Councilmember Jack Evans was starting to sound a lot more like a Republican, blasting his colleagues’ proposed tax increases and talking about “living within our means.” Soda taxes, parking fees, and surcharges of all sorts were derided as counterproductive, and the wrong way to make up that $400 [...]
It has been an exhausting month for the nation’s real estate agents: The prospect of an $8,000 tax credit sent buyers scrambling to seal deals before the offer expired, this time not to be extended. And it looks like it made a difference, with home sales up 27 percent in March nationwide.
“I told a whole [...]
The Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration has a new website, just launched today! Shedding the hurky-jerky D.C. government interface of yore, it's now got a DDOT-like smoothness and sleek design.
Appropriately, the home page photo is of Pizza Mart in Adams Morgan, drunk-land ground zero.
Don't pop the champagne corks yet, though; it doesn't appear to have any [...]
Karl Rove hasn't been around Washington much these days. Since resigning his post in the Bush Administration in 2007, he has split his time between the District and Austin, Texas, and now jets around the country promo-ing his brick of a memoir. And for most of the past year, he's been trying to sell his [...]
Skadden mega-firm kicking the tires at CityCenterDC. [WBJ]
More signs of life in the housing market. [Examiner]
There is a magazine called Site Selection, and it's giving an award to Virginia. [WBJ]
Community Three Development gives up on 1922 Third Street. [L4L]
Brookland Artspace breaks ground today. [Brookland Avenue]
City moving to seize control of United Medical Center, which isn't [...]
“Open House” signs dotted every block of the District this weekend, the last before the expiration of the $8,000 new homebuyer tax credit. I headed to Capitol Hill expecting plenty of open doors, and I wasn’t disappointed. From a “cute condo alternative” to a "sun-drenched, expansive, semi-detached historic rowhouse," it seemed like every [...]
Ever since Bruce Monroe Elementary School was demolished a few weeks ago–and long before that, really–a group of local parents has kept up a steady drumbeat of protest over the ever-receding deadline for its reconstruction. The last we heard, $20 million remained in the FY 2011 budget. But at a City Council budget hearing on [...]
Last Friday, the Business Journal reported that Councilmember Harry Thomas had scrounged up $3 million from the Library capital budget to pay for stormwater management on the site of a huge new development at the intersection of New York and South Dakota Avenues, in his own Ward 5. That's on top of an expected increase [...]
Thousands of Washingtonians live and work in buildings designed by Phil Esocoff and Amy Weinstein: The architect couple (we'd call them starchitects, but this is D.C. we're talking about) has amassed an impressive portfolio of giant complexes, many lining Massachusetts Avenue. And they’re not just institutional bloc housing; Esocoff has been praised for his curvy [...]
Jauhar Abraham proudly surveys the ongoing construction at 1300 Congress St. SE last Friday afternoon, standing back to avoid clouds of dust.
“It’s gonna be nice,” he says—all-wood floors, ceramic tiling, private bathrooms. “Not the way all these projects are set up.”
The crew performing the renovations looks somewhat different from the one working on developer [...]
