The week in vaguely-real-estate-related events. N.B.: If an ANC meeting is not on here, it's probably because the agenda isn't online (please get your agenda online!). But the full calendar is here.
Monday: Nothing is happening today.
Tuesday:
11:00 a.m. – D.C. Council: Reading and vote on nomination of Stanley Wall to chair the Zoning [...]
Storing your stuff? Read the fine print. [DCist]
Councilman Barry snatches Ward 8 school building for UDC. [WaPo]
What do you do if you don't know what state you're in? [WaPo]
Councilman Wells working on the wire issue. [GGWash]
In Vegas, carving up the D.C. retail market. [WaPo]
Can the city afford to bury power lines in Brookland? [WBJ]
Tyson's walkable [...]
Ward Four Councilwoman Muriel Bowser has announced the four community sessions for hashing out what should go in the 62-acre empty space at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But they won't just be free-for alls: The city has hired the D.C.-based AmericaSpeaks to put participants through its trademarked 21st Century Town Meeting methodology, which translates [...]
Via a newsletter from the NoMa BID, the group will be embarking on a branding offensive in the coming months–they've retained the Roan Group to come up with the right way to sell that overbuilt ghost town of an emerging neighborhood. And on June 11th, they'll be holding a "Community Branding Session" to lend their [...]
Last week, Councilmember Harry Thomas floated a proposal to impose an income tax on the 70 percent of city workers who live outside the District, aiming to raise $70 million. City Administrator Neil Albert quickly wrote it off as a non-starter in Congress, but it seemed to garner significant Council support.
This Wednesday, the Greater Washington [...]
With more grocery options than ever in upper Georgetown, it appears that the neighborhood farmer’s market might falling on hard times.
Lauren Shweder Biel, executive director of DC Greens, says that the Glover Park and Burleith market started out with 18 vendors—but two jumped ship, and others are losing money, saying that foot traffic isn’t heavy [...]
A new lease on life for the Watergate Hotel. [WSJ]
Arena Stage architects to design Randall School. [DCist]
Minnesota-Benning mixed use project is off to the races. [DCMud]
WIll Georgetown have fewer problems with neighbors in the Blue Ridge Mountains? [VoxPop]
Metro invests in new cars. [Examiner]
Examiner owner invests in luxury trains. [Portfolio]
Wait, this is surprising? And disappointing? [WSJ]
A [...]
Despite ANC 7B's forgiveness of council chairman Vince Gray's fence, the District Department of Transportation's Public Space committee ruled today that the barrier is, in fact, too high and too far over his own property line to stand.
"What we do here sets precedent," DDOT official Karina Ricks told the Post. "We try to hold very [...]
At this morning’s Historic Preservation Review Board hearing, board members seemed eager to get Morton Bender’s N Street Follies Hotel off their docket. “This case has been around for a long time,” said board chairman Tersh Boasberg. “The property...is a real eyesore to the neighborhood and street—which is a special street. We are getting [...]
On a breezy Saturday afternoon, the only sounds in the Big Bear Café at 1700 1st Street NW in Bloomingdale are the tapping of laptops and some hushed conversation, with the occasional shout of a finished sandwich or coffee order from the counter. Ceiling fans whirr overhead. Large open windows make it feel like an [...]
