Where celebrities lay their heads in Washington. [Politico]
Heat's as bad as cold for people falling through the cracks of D.C.'s shelter system. [Post]
A God-given right to parking? [Post]
You could put solar panels on your roof. Or you could just lease it to someone else. [Atlantic]
Huh–All retail space pre-leased at Square 54. [DCMud]
Today on the market: [...]
Last week, ANC 6C commissioner Keith Silver blasted out an e-mail to local media promising to chain himself to an "historic" tree at 425 Eye Street, which was slated to be taken down as the sidewalk underwent upgrades. The Triangle subsequently picked up on his petition campaign, and tomorrow the good commissioner has scheduled a [...]
Noticing that tomorrow's Council legislative agenda includes a reading and vote on the "14W and Anthony Bowen YMCA Project Tax Abatement Implementation Clarification Temporary Act of 2010"–following similar bills from previous sessions that have secured developer Perseus sales and property tax exemptions worth $3.6 million over the first four years–I thought I'd check in on [...]
Last week, at a forum in Adams Morgan, Council chairman Vincent Gray was asked—as he often is—how he would solve unemployment in the District. On top of the usual answers about job training and construction projects, Gray had one most audience members hadn’t heard before: Making D.C. a tax shelter for insurance companies.
Here’s what he [...]
A contest for how much your home looks like Mad Men, the T.V. show. There are extensive terms and conditions. Do you get extra credit for posing in a 50s frock with a cigarette and tumbler, looking forlorn as dinner waits on the table for your husband?
The week in vaguely real estate-related events. Got one to share? Drop me a line: ldepillis@washingtoncitypaper.com.
Monday
1:00 p.m. – Committee on Housing and Workforce Development, hearing on bill 18-0734, the “Subsidized Nonprofit Rental Unit Tax Exemption Act of 2010,” room 412.
7:00 p.m. – Southwest Neighborhood Forum public forum on CSX railroad. St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, [...]
Vacant buildings: Great campaign billboards? [PoP]
When the federal government wants fewer wide open spaces. [CityBizList]
Could Foggy Bottom use a redesign? [Current via H-Net]
So, some mortgage defaults aren't emergencies. [WSJ]
Multi-bedrooms back in style in New York. [NYT]
Shops at Georgetown Park trade from under Lanier and Miller's noses. [WBJ]
National Trust not moving after all. [WBJ]
If WMATA were [...]
The gardeners fighting to save Virginia Avenue Park in South Capitol Hill from becoming barracks for the Marines have kicked up their advocacy with a nicely-produced video:
Richard Layman made the interesting argument last week that it makes sense to put the barracks there because urban places should be urban, as market forces create higher density. [...]
Far west of here, a city block in Denver, Colorado is being renovated from the inside out. It’s an ambitious idea: Get the majority of property owners in a very small area to retrofit their buildings for maximum energy efficiency, using cooperation to lower the cost of upgrades that might be prohibitively expensive if undertaken [...]
Mayor Adrian Fenty gets three appointments to the five-person Zoning Commission. All three of his latest picks have been developers—and on account of their professional homogeneity, the Council is likely to only confirm one of the two nominations currently pending.
Stan Wall, whom the Mayor nominated to replace menschy chairman Anthony Hood, has already run into [...]
