Anacostia Library is open! [ANC8C01]
Should downtown be denser? [GGWash]
The Prince peeks in on Meridian Pint. [PoP]
Gaming out the options for Steuart properties on New York Avenue. [The Triangle]
Live life like at any time a metal duct could fall on you. [DCist]
Coalition for Smarter Growth urges Northrop Grumman to think Ballston. [GGWash]
Project actually getting built in [...]

Last week, it was the con artist posing as an inspector from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs who made D.C. residents wary of authority figures. Today, a tipster sent DCist a picture of a bright orange notice from the "Department of Land Regulation Administration," with the address blacked out. Sketchy, right? Turns out [...]

The blogosphere saw a mini-boomlet two days ago when snack entrepreneur and former Redskin Fred Smoot announced that his Waffle House plans for D.C. had found a location: somewhere off 14th and U. There sure are enough available places (Polly's old spot comes to mind) and now with the Arts Overlay cap about to be [...]

Exciting news from the D.C. Superior Court today: Tenants in buildings with housing code violations will no longer have to wait in line with everyone else filing complaints against their landlords. Instead, they can pay $15, submit a special form, get on an expedited calendar, and have a hearing date within a month. Details here, [...]

Tis the season for first-quarter market reports, and yesterday brought us Delta Associates’ snapshot of housing trends. The Business Journal already picked up on the clearest message the stats are sending: Housing demand is starting to outstrip supply. The Post also runs down some of the pricing and foreclosure numbers.
But one graph in particular caught [...]

A bit of an update on Arena Stage. [SWDC]
First looks at Diamond Teague Park, Room and Board. [DCMud, DCMud]
The fate of H Street's Mead Row. [HSGS]
Virginia made Northrop Grumman an offer they couldn't refuse. [WTOP]
Leonsis buys the Wizards, Pollins throw in Verizon Center too. [WaPo]
Report identifies probable discrimination in foreclosures, subprime loans. [WaPo]
Nats, DDOT present [...]

One of the biggest problems facing Downtown is as plain as the empty storefronts along F Street: There’s too much commercial space for the demand, and hundreds of thousands of square feet are in the pipeline. Meanwhile, folks wanting to live downtown have increasingly limited options.
That’s the takeaway from the (otherwise very upbeat) Downtown BID’s [...]

1130 Connecticut Avenue has some immediate openings, but CBRE won't give brokers free lunch and $50 bucks to walk through the door until May 20.

At last night's Zoning Commission hearing to consider an emergency text amendment to the Uptown Arts Overlay, area businesses got a bit of a reprieve: Commissioners took emergency action to boost the 25 percent cap to 30 percent, effective immediately. According to a ZC spokeswoman, for the next 120 days, businesses can apply for their [...]

Here are some fun facts about the history of Barney Circle: It contains no 19th century buildings and over 70% of its buildings were constructed between 1919 and 1924. It’s named after Joseph Joshua Barney, a hero of the War of 1812. It was a transit hub in the streetcar days, where cars [...]