The Department of Real Estate Services tells me that Councilmember Marion Barry has dropped his disapproval resolution on the District Department of Transportation's move to 55 M Street SE, which momentarily put the whole thing in limbo. That means the move can go forward as planned, without having to wait through another 35-day review period until [...]
As plans for the McMillan sand filtration site have sat on the shelf, and a new battery of studies gets underway, the Vision McMillan development team has quietly hired a new master planner to knit the vast site together. Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, an unspellable architecture firm based out of New York with offices in [...]
The back and forth over the Big Bear Cafe's battle for a liquor license reverberated through the internet after ANC 5C withheld its approval last week. And on Monday, owner Stuart Davenport's application for a zoning map amendment from residential (R-4) to commercial (C-2-A) hit the city's highest court: The Zoning Commission, which decided to set [...]
To those pissed off by Haydee Vanegas' guerilla tree removal in front of her Mt. Pleasant restaurant–apparently because it would have gotten in the way of a couple of tables in a planned sidewalk cafe–fume no longer. The tree box has been replaced, according to DDOT, at Haydee's expense (no word of fines). But the [...]
Foggy Bottom: Home of the State Department, the Watergate, and...what else, really? The institutional-feeling neighborhood, carved up by freeways and uninspired green space, has some of the largest undeveloped chunks of land in the city.
Now, courtesy of the Catholic University Urban Institute Studio, there's at least a vision for what it could become–Professor Iris Miller [...]
If candidates keep promises, no more high-interest lending. [Post]
Dire warnings for Barry. [Left4LeDroit]
How to run for ANC Commissioner. [WeLoveDC]
Nevada, land of foreclosed dreams. [HuffPo]
More Thai for 14th Street. [14thandYou]
DDOT doin' work. [d.ish]
Spooky Brookland building turning brewery. [PoP]
Funding approved for tenant purchase of Mt. Pleasant's Deauville. [CMGraham]
The rebirth of Wheeler Terrace. [DCMud]
The luckiest CVS in the [...]
If you want an education in what tenants in this city are concerned about, I suggest you mosey on down to First Trinity Church at 3rd and E Street NW this Saturday afternoon for the third annual tenant town hall. All the city's housing bigwigs will be there, and the Latino Economic Development Corporation is [...]
A few months ago, prospects for a new school on top of the rubble at Bruce Monroe Elementary in Park View looked dim–even funding for a park on the site in the mean time seemed thin. Since then, basketball courts and lawns have bloomed on the site, courtesy of a beefed-up budget. There's even a [...]
The District of Columbia Housing Authority has published draft rules that would make it a lot harder for drug users–and even the families of drug users–to receive public assistance for housing. Actually, make that nearly impossible. The new regs apply to several kinds of criminal activity, but the drug use section states:
DCHA must terminate participation [...]
A complicated deal gets senior housing out of the ground in Brightwood. [DCMud]
Richard Layman has a lot more to say about branding–or rather, "identity positioning." [RPUS]
Is Pepco moving as fast as it can? The powerless think not. [Examiner]
Fenty administration celebrates arbitrary number of permanent supportive housing units. [RealEstateErama, WTOP]
David von Storch's fabulous fitness empire. [Post]
Why [...]
