Right now, the Capitol Riverfront is not the kind of place you want to dog-walk after dark. Last time I visited, the only pedestrian traffic I encountered was security guards and a man visiting the local storage warehouse. M Street Southeast had a few people walking around. But they all seemed to be on [...]
A week ago today, I attended an auction downtown for a prime piece of property in Tenleytown, at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street, N.W.
After a tension-filled bidding war with a representative from American University, developer Doug Jemal came away with the win. For five million dollars, he strolled out of the building [...]
The McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site is a 25-acre plot of land north of Bloomingdale. In the mid 1980s, the plant closed, leaving the city to determine how to redevelop the land. In December, Vision McMillan Partners, a group of developers, unveiled plans to transform the parcel into a mixed-use community with housing, retail, office [...]
The McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site is a 25-acre plot of land north of Bloomingdale. In the mid 1980s, the plant closed, leaving the city to determine how to redevelop the land. In December, Vision McMillan Partners, a group of developers, unveiled plans to transform the parcel into a mixed-use community with housing, retail, office [...]
The McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site is a 25-acre plot of land north of Bloomingdale. In the mid 1980s, the plant closed, leaving the city to determine how to redevelop the land. In December, Vision McMillan Partners, a group of developers, unveiled plans to transform the parcel into a mixed-use community with housing, retail, office [...]
From the Washington Business Journal:
Trulia Inc., a national residential real estate search site founded in San Francisco in 2005, has inked a deal with the Washington Post to create an online D.C.-area guide for real estate combining Trulia’s search capabilities and the Post’s local real estate and editorial content.
The McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site is a 25-acre plot of land north of Bloomingdale. In the mid 1980s, the plant closed, leaving the city to determine how to redevelop the land. In December, Vision McMillan Partners, a group of developers, unveiled plans to transform the parcel into a mixed-use community with housing, retail, office [...]
There's more than old sand swirling around plans for the McMillan site.
On a recent Tuesday evening, about a dozen Bloomingdale-area residents gathered around a fire for wine, cheese, mini spinach pastries, and their shared desire to take down a group of D.C. developers. It was one of two strategy sessions-a pre-public meeting before a big [...]
Richard Florida and a strange explosion of rainbow-colored light.
Richard Florida sort of annoys me. He's the guy that always talks about the "Creative Class" and how it can influence cities. In other words: Gay/smart/educated/artsy young people+decaying urban areas=rejuvenation!
It just seems like long ago Florida picked out a professional thesis (stated above), in which to frame [...]
Back in the day—say early 2008 until last fall—I wrote a little feature called "Buyer's Market, Price Pick of the Week." For each piece, I'd find a for-sale house that had undergone a severe price drop since being originally listed.
In the beginning, it was pretty easy to spot some real doozies. There was the Petworth [...]
