The old St. Cecelia's School at 601 East Capitol Street SE isn't much to look at. It isn't much use, either, with only its bottom floor occupied by a childcare center since the Library of Congress bought it and renovated in 1991. Since that very year, the idea has been to convert it into a [...]

The Yes! Organic Market at 6th and Pennsylvania Avenue SE was among the company’s first, starting in 2000. It’s also one of the smallest, at about 2,000 square feet—and the most profitable for the size.
Now, owner Gary Cha needs to move the market, with no easy options.
“We grew out of that space a long time [...]

View Whole Foods Triangle in a larger map
...Or as an alternative albeit too lengthy headline, I could have written "New Whole Foods to Create Upper Northwest Whole Foods Triumvirate."
Check that out above: Whole Foods is adding its third location on Wisconsin Avenue, and its third in the same little Bethesda/upper Northwest area.  The central one, [...]

A reader either noticed my column about a woman that lives on Acker Street/Place NE. Or he noticed a subsequent blog post about my nearly 15-day search—still not entirely conclusive—to determine the exact name of this one-block road. 
Anyway, here's his contribution to the debate:
By the way, I actually live on Acker Place/Street for 10 years and I [...]

Behind every article, there are a few—sometimes many—fact-checking dramas you'll never catch wind of in the final draft.
You think your story's done. Then, you spend two hours selecting one word. Seriously.
Case in point: This week's column provided a mystery so perplexing, and soooo unending, we ultimately employed four City Paper staff members and spoke to [...]

Late yesterday afternoon, the city announced it had once again narrowed its list of developers competing to redevelop Hine Junior High School's site near Eastern Market. 
From four finalists, only one group got the axe: The National Leadership Campus, a non-profit concept, backed by billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the  Progressive Corporation.

Last night, Capitol Hillers testified before ANC 6B about the various development proposals—promoting hotels, retail, housing, and subsidized non-profit office space—for the Hine Junior High School site, an important parcel between Pennsylvania Avenue and Eastern Market on Capitol Hill.
The ANC had planned to pick out a favorite and pass their choice onto the city. That [...]

Tomorrow, the public is invited to comment on the various development proposals promoting hotels, retail, housing, and subsidized non-profit office space for the Hine Junior High School site, an important parcel between Pennsylvania Avenue and the shiny, new Eastern Market on Capitol Hill.
It's so important, in fact, that nine development teams originally competed for the [...]

"Democracy Hall of Fame International" part of the International Graduate University
Roughly a decade ago, the city sold off a bunch of school buildings. One became a gym. Others became condo buildings. Here's one of the more mysterious cases.
An institution named the “International Graduate University” should have a grand entrance. Perhaps a wrought iron archway [...]

After a day of phone tag, I finally caught up with Tim Dennee, a staff reviewer for the Historic Preservation Review Board.
Yesterday, I wrote about Dennee's decision to not recommend a set of H Street Rowhouses for a historic landmark designation.
His reasoning (in an extremely itty, bitty nutshell): They weren't that special. For more, see [...]