So this morning, I recounted the first half of Saturday's meeting about the 25-acre McMillan site. The second half was a bit more chaotic.
After the developers shared their plans, residents were invited to step up to the microphone and ask questions about the proposal. Many were not so down with that format. They just wanted [...]

Some people look at the McMillan Sand Filtration site and imagine fountains, running trails, strollers, skipping children—A glorious oasis of green with the city only peaking through the trees.
Others see an antiquated water filtration system with weird silos behind a fence.
On Tuesday night, I sat around listening to people with visions of green grandeur. [...]

As I wrote earlier, the city plans to auction off more than 30 long-vacated, nuisance properties tomorrow. Late afternoon, I talked to Martine Combal of the Department of Housing and Community Development. She helped compile the list from a pool of 219 decrepit eyesores that have irritated neighbors for years. She has also been fielding [...]

In December, I wrote several times about the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site, a 25-acre parcel of land by the intersection of North Capitol Street and Michigan Avenue, Northwest. Recently, a development team unveiled plans re-imagining the land as a mixed-use community with up to 1,200 housing units, a grocery store, retail—the works.
Soon after, Bloomingdale resident Paul [...]

Bloomingdale might be D.C.'s most adorable crime zone. Besides the constant muggings, it has lovely sherbet-colored Victorian houses. A new purple yoga studio. And a cute little coffeeshop that neighbors rally around, and one blogger described (not positively) as "a favorite" example of gentrification in D.C. That's Bloomingdale for ya!
I know all of this because [...]