Posts Tagged ‘DCmud’
The Latest News on Central Union Mission
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 into their gigantic $130 million “New Communities” project.
Developer Seeks to Block Convention Center Hotel Deal
Just when you thought ‘Well it looks like we’re over the final hurdle!” it appears the D.C. Convention Center hotel may be facing more delays.
This summer, the D.C. Council zoomed forward on a financing deal to jump-start a long awaited 1,167-room Marriott Marquis hotel, which is supposed to stimulate the city’s convention business, and minimize the “Mickey Mouse effect.” Once the members passed the proposal, construction was on track to begin this fall. But earlier this month, developer the JBG Companies threw a wrench in matters by suing the city over “the contracting process, which it calls an ‘invalid sole source procurement,’” according to the Washington Business Journal.
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Creepy, Vacant—and Sadly Interchangeable—Highrises Located East of the River…
Last week, DCmud reported on The Overlook apartments, formerly known as Parkside Terrace. Back before the demolition, Parkside was an empty shell of a building. With its exterior ripped off, one could peer up at the vacant rooms, looking into the building like it was some humongous, slummy dollhouse. (Sorry I don’t have a picture.)
I thought I recognized the old building, located in Washington Highlands, but it turns out I had a completely different property in mind.
A co-worker had previously alerted me to a another empty highrise east of the river with the same eery, bombed-out look. This one is up in Ward 7, located by the intersection of Southern Ave. and East Capitol Street.
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Barry Farm Area Gets New Housing
The Barry Farm area will become one of the city’s four New Communities, receiving a burst of development and mixed-income housing.
It’s not the first development—that would be Northwest One around North Capitol Street and New York Avenue, followed by Park Morton on Georgia Ave.—but ultimately the neighborhood should receive “654 replacement units together with new affordable and market rate units for a total of 1,110 units.”
Now, add to that Matthews Memorial Terrace, “a 100% affordable housing development consisting of a four-story apartment building with 100 residential units, roughly of a third of which would be reserved for seniors,” according to DCmud.
