Call them prescient: A week after the news breaks that Wal-Mart has finally found a viable place to locate in the District, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has a poll out with evidence that D.C. residents support making big box stores pay a living wage and hire from local communities.
The idea failed in [...]
As expected, Council Chairman Vince Gray allowed only one of the two developers nominated to the Zoning Commission by Mayor Adrian Fenty to move forward in the Council's last legislative meeting before their summer recess. Calling Fenty's nominations an "unprecedented attempt to stack the Zoning Commission" with people in the real estate industry, he recommended [...]
When we last left Bloomingdale's Big Bear Cafe, owner Stu Davenport was hashing out a voluntary agreement with nearby residents to confine his proposed restaurant's hours of operation. But the early June deadline for that to happen came and went, according to Davenport, and he hasn't heard from the group after a few tries at [...]
Hine School to host Artomatic? [DCist]
Hooray for volunteers and medians. [PoP]
Skaters take over Silver Spring plaza. [GGWash]
Another livability list I don't agree with. [NBC]
Philly Pizza is indestructible. [Vox Pop]
Timelines and archi-speak at 1000 Connecticut. [DCMud]
Brookland gets the Urbanturf treatment. [Urbanturf]
Tommy Wells looks to lock down more cash for H Street development. [WBJ]
While Northrop moves 300 [...]
