The District dispatched with 18 falling-down and unbuilt properties this afternoon, in a brisk auction with a clear takeaway: While investors are willing to pay top dollar for eyesores in good neighborhoods, there’s still little interest in marginal markets on the eastern end of the city.
Case in point: before the auction began at the Washington [...]
More food! Perhaps feeling the heat from incoming Ellwood Thompsons, Target is planning to expand its current dry goods section to include more grocery-type items, including produce–a critical factor making it a viable alternative to Giant's weekend lines. The remodeling will start any day now and finish sometime in October, taking out some abutting retail [...]
Tomorrow, the National Capital Planning Commission will consider two different futures for the renovated General Services Administration headquarters at 1800 F Street: One, a highly secured streetscape design with bollards all over the sidewalks and 16-inch-thick security barriers. Or two: A welcoming, pedestrian-friendly retail scenario that could make the federal building into a part of [...]
Higher fares, fewer riders? Maybe. [Examiner]
Council takes emergency action to allow overhead wires for H Street/Benning Road streetcar. [WBJ]
Last obstacle clears for Hill East transfer. [WBJ]
City creates non-profit to take over United Medical Center. [Post]
Jaffe: Real estate forecast saves political bacon. [Examiner]
Does anyone want to run the Bethesda Theater? [Post]
Fort Davis facelift gets under way. [...]
As our dearly departed DeBonis reports, the Greater Washington Board of Trade has endorsed Mayor Adrian Fenty over Council Chairman Vince Gray, with the reasoning: Things have been ok from our perspective, so why change horses mid-stream?
"It simply comes down to the fact that we recognize the progress that's being made over the past four [...]
The Lacey, that incongruous modernist masterpiece on 11th and Florida Northwest (tagline: "Better Living Through Architecture"), is now a prizewinner: Division1 architects picked up the Northern Virginia AIA chapter’s award for residential design excellence last week, beating projects from all over the greater D.C. area.
Tell that to prospective buyers. After being on the market for [...]
Last night, ANC 4B won its battle with vice in the form of usury. The next item on their agenda, however, could make Famous Pawn’s trial look like a cake walk: Pot.
In May, the D.C. city council approved legislation to sanction as many as eight medical marijuana dispensaries in the District, which would allow only [...]
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B, which has been fighting a new pawn shop seeking to locate at 7301 Georgia Avenue all year, finally used its legislatively-granted great weight last night to squash Famous Pawn’s ambitions once and for all.
First Cash Financial’s president Rick Wessel tried his best to counter the audience’s overwhelming animosity towards his new [...]
The Department of Securities, Insurance, and Banking announced yesterday that they'd finally indicted Renaldo Gillis and Afolasade Orekoya for a pattern of quick home resales involving forged appraisals, straw buyers, fudged loan applications. Their chicanery netted the pair $1 million over six years–not an eye-popping payoff, sure, but not a bad living either. Here's how [...]
Tomorrow, 18 District properties–several in Congress Heights, a few in Columbia Heights, Old City, Deanwood, Barry Farms, and Woodridge–are going on the block as part of the Department of Housing and Development's second-annual property disposition auction at the Washington Convention Center. There are all sorts of rules associated with buying and rehabbing these houses and [...]
