Folks who live in the District’s residential neighborhoods have a strong sense of entitlement to quiet, to parking, to darkness at night—all the things that come with the kind of house where you can have a driveway and a picket fence.
Living downtown is supposed to be different. This is the District’s public zone, after all, [...]
Every couple of months, I go to some event where Georgetowners agonize about how nobody likes their neighborhood anymore—commercial corridors around the city are attracting the exciting new retail and restaurants, throwing them into an identity crisis. That was supposed to be resolved by a new branding campaign, but the fretting continues.
Last month, it was [...]
In particularly contentious historic preservation cases—mostly when property owners wants to raze their historic buildings and the Historic Preservation Review Board says they can't—the mayor is formally the person who's supposed to decide. Recent cases of note that have gone to that next level of appeal (and sometimes even higher, to the District's Court of [...]
Mt. Vernon Square, filling up fast. [DCMud]
New plaza for Tiber Island. [SWLQTC]
Organizing for equity in Wheaton. [LEDC]
More D.C. kids are poor. [Examiner]
Gas stations united for cheap gas. [TBD]
A physical reminder of the demand for affordable housing. [Post]
JBG flips to rentals on 14th Steet. [Borderstan]
Are landlords responsible for student misbehavior? [GeorgetownDish]
Today on the market: 777 19th [...]
On Saturday night, the Fall Massive electronic music festival on the parking lot south of RFK Stadium roared throughout the surrounding neighborhood of Hill East—and the neighborhood roared back, forcing them to turn down the volume way earlier in the night than planned.
A small victory for residents, perhaps. But they know it'll probably just happen [...]
Yesterday, the Examiner looked at Census data showing that comparatively few residents of the District and surrounding counties were born where they live. While acknowledging the benefits of having a clean slate once you move here, the overall tone was pretty mopey: There's no hometown pride for sports teams! It's hard to get people interested [...]
I haven't yet made reference on the blog to last week's cover essay on Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant and the strange industrial beauty captured by Darrow Montgomery's photos. I hereby do so, and for further detail on how the place works, refer you to this awesome narrated photo series by mammoth, which even gets [...]
Would you pay for a view in Tysons Corner? [Post]
A "tourist zone" for Metro riders? I thought we wanted to encourage them to explored beyond the Mall... [GGW]
Inside the new National Academy of Science. [Archpaper]
Put the Bikehouse at the Convention Center! [CCCA]
What's in an empty corner in Anacostia? [Post]
Looks like Louis Rouge isn't going anywhere. [...]
While touring the Lansburgh Apartments in Penn Quarter for my column this week, I came across a strange architectural feature: A single twisting pole in the middle of the lobby, which seems cartoonish in a building with an elegant historic facade on the 8th Street side (the Lansburgh extends all the way through the block [...]
Earlier this spring, I dove into the strife between tenants in the rent-controlled wing of the Kennedy-Warren, the majestic old apartment building on Connecticut Avenue near the National Zoo. The landlord, B.F. Saul, had tried for years to raise rents as it conducted a massive renovation, and tenants fought back fiercely enough to keep most [...]
