100 Bryant St. N.W. in Bloomingdale, which was bid up to
$380,000 in a January Auction.
Back in January, the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) held an auction for some 30 vacant homes and properties around D.C.
Sure, most were slummy—boarded up windows, austere yards, watermarked brick—but buyers recognized the few jewels, and in [...]
MANNA Up: Jim Dickerson and Frank Demarais say the city’s stiffing affordable condo owners.
Tanya Davis spends most of her hours on the couch, watching cable television shows depicting graphic surgeries and other invasive medical procedures.
It’s not that she’s lost her job or depressed. She’s bed-ridden, waiting for her baby—“Ella” is the chosen name—to be born, [...]
A number of retail spaces in Columbia Heights have remained empty for a near eternity. That, coupled with the endless road construction and constantly snarled traffic, has seriously hindered the neighborhood from reaching its full potential.
Thankfully, 11th Street is coming along, with the opening of wine bar Room 11, and construction of a small office/retail [...]
Zillow Home Value Index
More U Street Corridor Home Values
This graph exhibits the median “Zestimate valuation“—Zillow’s estimated market value of properties—for homes in these neighborhoods in the last five years. The values along the side of the graph–rather squished out right now, despite my best efforts–are $680 K to $380K. Here are the current vlauations for [...]
Turns out Central Union Mission will not be developing the land it owns by Georgia Ave. and Newton Place in Park View/Columbia Heights/Petworth. (Note: I've had enough of you neighborhood name police! It's a blurry area! Get over it.)
DCmud reported yesterday that the newly-selected developers for Park Morton will be "absorbing" Central Union Mission's land [...]
I'm trying to be fair and balanced here. I'm really, really trying.
So after weeks of posting about homeless shelter closures and Petworth and Columbia Heights residents rejecting a planned shelter in their neighborhood, I typed up a post entitled "A (Tiny) Bit of Good News for D.C.’s Homeless."
It was about roughly 15 homeless people moving [...]
This story will run in this week's print edition of the Washington City Paper.
Update: Central Union Mission Still Pursuing the Gales School.
In September, representatives with the Central Union Mission went before community members from Petworth and Columbia Heights to explain plans for a big project on Georgia Avenue NW. The mission wants to launch a [...]
In Columbia Heights, a bench is not just a bench.
For more explanation, see this week's cover story on the triangular park at 14th and Ogden Streets NW. Artist Sarah Tooley installed a temporary art installation of fully functional benches that helped reveal the history the park, and why benches were previously removed.
Tooley never expected her [...]
For this week's cover story, I stepped a bit outside the bounds of housing and development. But not that far out. The article's about a tiny triangular park in Columbia Heights: Some people love it–other people see it as a drug dealer hangout that produces more crime, anxiety and heartache than good. Live in [...]
You don't see something quite like this on every corner. Classic rowhouse: Red brick walls, well-trimmed lawn, deftly maintained shrubbery...and then random wood-shingled window in the middle.
