Washington's cut of the foreclosure settlement. [Examiner]
Could you get some of it? [WhereWeLive]
New uber-fancy real estate agency. [Curbed]
D.C.'s terrible new street signs. [Post]
Boozy Brightwood. [Brightwoodian]
Will the civilian BRAC make property disposal easier? [WBJ]
Azerbaijan is going to have the world's tallest building??? [Architizer]
All the ways in which D.C. residents are near homelessness. [P&P]
I'm late on this [...]
Last Thursday, residents of the Shepherd Park, Brightwood, and Takoma neighborhoods gathered to get the rundown on the final re-use plan for the now-shuttered Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But the guy who's been running the show since it started, Eric Jenkins, wasn't there—the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development had quietly let him [...]
Developer Jim Abdo's lawyer tells me that he's withdrawn the zoning application for his planned 70-ish-unit building in the empty space between 14th and 15th Street on Rhode Island Avenue NW, and declined to give a reason for the reversal. It's not an unprecedented thing for Abdo; he's proposed building on top of his office [...]
The best things from new zoning regs. [GGW]
D.C.'s budget thanks the weather gods. [DCist]
De-occupy? Re-occupy! [Examiner]
Co-working scales. [GOOD]
Harvard tries to evict Cameroon. [Legal Times]
Preservationists scramble to save historic tax credit. [PreservatioNation]
Housing nadir keeps getting further away. [WSJ]
Don't raise the gas tax just to build more roads. [GGW]
You know where people can afford to buy houses? [...]
So I guess this had to happen eventually: A conservative group, the National Center for Public Policy Research, got a permit to stage a "counterprotest" on the eastern half of Freedom Plaza (contra the Center's David Almasi, the Freedom Plaza-ites actually got a permit in advance as well). They're scheduled to start next Monday and [...]
Last month, the District got one of those rankings that it knows is meaningless but celebrates anyway: It has more building square feet per capita certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as enviro-friendly than any state in the nation. Win!
It’s meaningless in part because D.C. is a city and can’t realistically be compared to [...]
Last night, Mayor Vince Gray gave a 5,700 word speech on the state of the District, laying out his priorities on public safety, sustainability, education, and fostering new and existing industries other than the federal government (especially tech). All great things!
But for someone who covers real estate, something was obviously missing: Housing. Creating more of it, [...]
People sure want to come to Washington from other countries—but not really the city itself. That's the takeaway from a rundown of the numbers by George Mason University's Center for Regional Analysis, covered today in the Examiner.
The area gained 200,000 immigrants over the last decade, or 20 percent to the region's overall 9.6 percent growth [...]
Ogle-worthy Wharf drawings. [DCMud]
The jobs, they are coming. [Trulia]
The real reason K Street sucks. [Post]
D.C.'s bike highway. [TBD]
More shoes to D.C. USA. [WBJ]
R-B Corridor blowing up. [Urbanturf]
GWU replacing drab dorm at 23rd and K. [DCMud]
New theater (back) to Kennedy Street. [Brightwoodian]
Ecuadorians to Georgetown. [PoP]
Sidewalk snow scofflaws breath sigh of relief. [GGW]
Which five $500 million federal [...]
It's not news that Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans desperately wants the Redskins back from Landover, Maryland. In 2010, he proposed tearing down RFK Stadium and building a 110,000-seat replacement. Last year, he and the Mayor went to Tampa to check out a training facility, which could be built near RFK if the whole stadium [...]
