In this week's column, Housing Complex looks at the issues surrounding a tricky service lane on Connecticut Avenue NW between Ordway and Macomb streets in Cleveland Park. To see just how dicey the narrow sidewalk can be for a pedestrian, we walked the length of the lane with a video camera in tow.
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As if Walmart weren't enough, Arboretum residents might have another superstore to look forward to at Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue NE.
Developer Rick Walker and Walmart community affairs director Keith Morris said that a Lowe’s hardware store could possibly share the large triangular space reserved for one of the four Walmarts slated come to [...]
Two of the District’s busiest fire companies are back in their old home, and everyone in Trinidad and Ivy City should feel safer for it.
The D.C. Fire Department's Engine 10 and Truck 13 returned this month to the historic firehouse they share on Florida Avenue NE after a 2.5-year absence, during which the century-old building [...]
To most joggers and dog walkers in Kalorama Park, there's little evidence of a sprawling 150-year-old plantation that once covered the three-acre site. But that might change: Yesterday, the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board voted to grant the site landmark status, giving it more protections and higher visibility as a piece of slavery history.
On the [...]
Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn's plan to open the first medical marijuana dispensary in D.C. might have overcome some of its many impending obstacles last night. Then again, it might also have to face some new ones.
ANC 4B—representing the area where Kahn wants to locate his mom 'n pop pot shop, the Takoma Wellness Center—voted at a [...]
A miniseries in which we examine the Mystery of the Vacant Condo.
The property: 738 Longfellow St. NW #108
The price: One-bedroom condos from $179,000; two-bedroom condos from $199,000
The leasing agent: Eugene Gallagher, Gallagher & Co. Real Estate Inc.
Listed since: February 6, 2008
The story: Of the 66 units listed since February of 2008, 12 remain vacant. "We [...]
Landlord Carlton Joseph came to court this morning in the hopes of redeeming some back rent from a tenant who wouldn't pay up. He ended up renting out another piece of property: his cell phone.
Joseph has been trying to secure the rent from Karina Okoro, who occupies a one-bedroom unit in Joseph's 23-unit Petworth apartment [...]
As someone who writes on the Internet all day for a living, you'd think I'd just suck it up and spring for the wireless. Hell, you'd think my employer would suck it up and spring for the wireless. But you would be underestimating my laziness, cheapness, and hubris—not to mention the whole bankruptcy thing.
I [...]
(1) What's the Skinny?
(2)14th and T: Room & Board Deal Falls Apart
(3)U Got Sales?
(4)Best of D.C.: Accepting Nominations for ‘Best New Condo Building’
(5)Best of D.C.: Accepting Nominations for ‘Best Building Amenities’
(6)Lots of Price Drops in Shaw, Not So Many in Cleveland Park
(7)Where Should Rahm Emanuel Live?
(8)Your Spite House Roundup
From the Washington Business Journal:
Vornado Realty Trust, the biggest owner of office properties in D.C. and New York, lost more than $200 million last quarter as it wrote down the value of some assets.
