If you've biked across U Street at 16th Street lately, or along the 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue cycletracks, you might have been stopped by someone who handed you a postcard with a link to a survey site about what it's like to use the new contraflow lanes that sometimes take a while to figure [...]
After a long courtship, longtime H Street NE clothier George Butler finally found a buyer—the guys behind Ben's Chili Bowl. Butler's store at 10th Street had been on the market for $1.4 million, but Nizam and Kamal Ali bargained him down to $900,000; the deal closed on October 11. It won't necessarily be another Ben's, [...]
The week in vaguely real estate-related news. Got something to share? Drop me a line: ldepillis@washingtoncitypaper.com.
Monday
Tuesday
7:00 p.m. – ANC 2B Zoning, Preservation, and Development meeting to review plans for the new Third Church of Christ Scientist building. Third Church of Christ, 900 16th Street, 7 floor library.
Wednesday
11:00 a.m. – Council Committee on Public Safety and [...]
HUD plaza, the Mall are "failed public squares." [AtlanticCities]
Reading between the tags. [CHotR]
Yeah, Occupy, stupid move. [DCist]
Union Station is literally falling apart. [HuffPostDC]
Historic Harrison School to get wavy. [PoP]
Designing for density, and beauty. [AtlanticCities]
Overhauling Eastern Market: Even harder than it looks. [EMMCA]
The diversification of the burbs. [Post]
Scheele's will stick around. [GeorgetownMetropolitan]
What artsy folks have done [...]
As has been amply noted, D.C.'s a hot apartment market right now: Rents are sky high, and new rental buildings are going up all over the city. In fact, it's one of the only forms of real estate development that really has a crack at financing these days.
But not everybody loves apartment dwellers. Over and [...]
In this week's cover story, I talk about how residential developers tend to stick with local architects who know the city's laws and personalities best. There were two exceptions: Eastbanc, with its West End project, and JBG. The latter has been working on a request for proposal system that will bring in bids from firms [...]
By now, developers know what they're getting into when they propose to develop a piece of upper Wisconsin Avenue, where anti-density sentiment runs high enough to delay projects for years.
So the new team behind a proposed mixed-use project over the squat Safeway on 42nd and Ellicott Streets NW was preemptively cautious at a get-to-know-you session [...]
The state of the Friendly Estate. [GeorgetownMetropolitan]
An architectural walking tour. [Curbed]
Another condo project for 14th Street. [Urbanturf]
Getting ready to move on lower 8th Street SE. [WBJ]
Kelsey Gardens finds a buyer. [DCMud]
What's a "concept store"? Who knows, exactly. [WBJ]
What it's like to live in a TownePlace Suites for ten years. [Post]
Gestating: Georgia Avenue Business Association. [ParkViewDC]
Bringing [...]
Remember the Shops at Dakota Crossing retail development in Fort Lincoln, which was supposed to break ground last December, and then in May, and then in August? Well, developer Cell Bernardino told ANC 5A last night that he's now hoping to start site work in November. The holdup, he says, was the wetland permit from [...]
You know we're always listening to you, dear readers. But for one issue, we've decided to answer your questions more directly. That's right: An entire print edition devoted to the things you've always wondered about the District but never had the chance to find out. I, for example, have long wanted to know why there [...]
