Just the other day I was wondering aloud about what was going on with the Eastern Market. 
Apparently we're in the "Let the public choose some design aspect" phase. Yes, I believe that's the technical term. 

I'm probably supposed to comment here about great ironies and pain in this day and age: Even Ben Bernanke is touched by our collective financial collapse! Even our chief economist can't protect his own halcyon memories from America's economic downfall!
Okay, now here's the story: The Wall Street Journal reports that Bernanke's childhood home in South Carolina [...]

In case you haven't clicked your way over to Loose Lips this week, allow me to expound what you've missed.
In this week's column, Mike "LL" DeBonis takes a look at donations to Adrian Fenty's re-election campaign.
In three months, Fenty has reeled in $2.04 million. Leading the We-Love-the-Mayor fan club are developers and builders. In total, [...]

A new feature in which we look at some of the properties that sold in the District in the past week:

4303 Reno Road, Northwest Washington D.C. (North Cleveland Park)
List Date: Dec. 8 2008
Original Listing Price:$749,500
Close Date: Feb. 13, 2009
Final Price: $715,000

Last week was a good one for the Capitol Riverfront, D.C.'s trying to be happenin', new riverfront/ballpark neighborhood. News broke that the neighborhood would host Artomatic from late May to July. Plus, the city held its official groundbreaking for Diamond Teague Park, one of several new green spaces that will eventually line the river's edge. 
But [...]

I've written quite a bit about the Eckington/Bloomingdale area since starting this blog.
Housing Complex has covered such topics as fear and anxiety over affordable housing to joy over the latest neighborhood speed bump. One article featured a man that evoked the KKK when talking about new, white, upwardly mobile residents in the area. Another [...]

It's just a Capitol Riverfront kind of week, I guess. Some neighborhoods you hear nothing about for months, and then all of sudden, the news comes pouring in. Here's more information about Diamond Teague park, from the city's Office of Planning and Economic Development:
The park will be built at First Street and Potomac Avenue SE. [...]

Well, this is no good.
Harvard University has a new study out today about vacancy rates: One in nine properties is now empty, a record number, according to an article in USA Today.

Last year, Artomatic was held in an empty, half-developed neighborhood north of the Capitol. This year, it's bouncing to an empty, half-developed neighborhood south of the Capitol.
Today, the Washington Business Journal reports that Artomatic will be held in the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood, at 55 M St. SE, "a building still under construction on top of [...]

Well, this is a blow.
The Washington Post reports this morning that D.C. United owner Victor MacFarlane wants to build a stadium—correct that "urban stadium"—in Prince George's County, not the District.
In late January, Clark Realty and the city ended their partnership to transform Poplar Point, a 110-acre section of Ward 8, into a huge new mecca [...]