Yesterday, the Department of Housing and Community Development announced it would be actioning off 18 properties through its Property Acquisition and Disposition Division. They're single and multi-family units as well as vacant lots located in six different wards, and the pictures are cringeworthy–they all look like a ton of work.
In the last auction–the first of [...]
Hey D.C.–It's intern season! They'll be filtering in by the thousands over the next few weeks, and I'd advise finding someplace other than McFaddens or the Hawk 'n Dove to hang out on Friday nights.
Lately, though, there's been more talk about the sometimes exploitative and potentially illegal nature of this modern form of indentured servitude. [...]
A bank of townhouses on N Street has sat, bricked up, for over a decade now. Since 2005, developer Morton Bender has been working on turning his “N Street Follies” into a boutique hotel, but his case was originally dismissed by the Board of Zoning Adjustment, and then rejected by the Historic Preservation Review Board.
Bender [...]
The streetcar resurrection: What it all means. [WaPo]
Moby Dick's big plans. [VoxPop]
Here's to Building Safety Month. [DCRA]
There are lofts in D.C.? [UrbanTurf]
On the docket at ANC 2e. [GM]
Construction firms writing checks to Kwame Brown. [WaPo]
What American University's campus plan could do for Tenleytown. [Starchitect]
"New" HUD report finds what the nation's worst-case housing needs were...in 2007. [...]
The big story coming out of today's budget vote was the death and immediate rebirth of the H Street-Benning streetcar. But a few other items are worth noting.
First, Councilmember Jim Graham secured $1.5 million to construct the basketball courts, gardens, and other park-like amenities planned for the site of Bruce Monroe Elementary while it waits [...]
The Purple Line, a proposed $1.517 billion light rail from Bethesda to New Carrollton, won't happen without help from the feds. After spending $130 million per mile on the Inter-County Connector, the state of Maryland is effectively broke, and seeking money from the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program to make up the difference. But [...]
UPDATE, 3:51 p.m.: Wow, that was fast: Looks like Vince Gray suddenly found that being the guy who killed the streetcar would not help so much in an election campaign. The Post is reporting that Gray freed up $10 million in the near term to purchase streetcars, plus "Another $37 million would be place in [...]
Final budget negotiations are underway at the Wilson building, and this morning, advocates for a wide range of issues showed up to put a human face on their priorities.
The Save our Safety Net invasion of the Council's breakfast began shortly before 10:00 a.m., later dissolving into marching and chanting and signs. But it didn’t take [...]
On Monday, we looked at a spat between two neighbors that the city wouldn’t touch. In Shaw, a case of neighborly discontent has gone even further: 60 people in the vicinity of a former crack house at 605 P Street are up in arms against the building’s conversion into a 9-unit “non-transient boarding house.” On [...]
Who knew there were such standards for becoming a tour guide? [WBJ]
Democratic senators to the rescue for Metro? [Examiner]
Time again for condo conversions? [Urbanturf]
Why does this building keep getting tax exemptions? [PoP]
Why are ribbon cutting photos so inherently awkward? [CityBizList]
Skyland Town Center inches closer towards approval. [DCMud]
Want to cut down on trash? Make people pay [...]
