Get ready, D.C. journo-landscape: the new, improved National Journal launches tomorrow. But it's not just some wonky newswire. No, media impresario David Bradley is swapping paywalls for actual walls, and will engage the customer on the street! From a memo sent around last week, the storefronts at 624 E Street NW is "designed to serve [...]
We haven't been terribly nice to Douglas Jemal on this blog. He's built some lovely buildings downtown–the Downtown BID is even giving him an award for them–and could do worse with his choice of tenants. But revelations about the amount of money he owes on his 150 properties around town, many of which are either [...]
When Douglas Development bought the old Wonder Bread factory at 641 S Street NW, the idea was to renovate it for office and retail. The economy squashed that plan. Lately, the company has floated the idea of turning it into a boutique hotel. But that's now off the table as well.
The current thought for the [...]
A couple weeks ago, we took a look at all the licensed "special signs" (a.k.a. billboards) that are attached to buildings owned by massive tax dodger Doug Jemal. Well, a couple have cropped up that don't appear on the list: One right next to the Vince Gray campaign headquarters, and another, for Carmine's (which also [...]
City beautiful types already had enough reason to growl at downtown real estate tycoon Douglas Jemal earlier this week, with a post by vacant property watchdog Cary Silverman chronicling the history of a decrepit mansion at 11th and K Northwest–it's covered by a series of wrap ads that make the eyesore even more glaring. Turns [...]
The Wonder Bread Factory in Shaw is a lovely relic, as industrial carcasses go, but Shaw residents have long been ready to see it put to use. Lately, owner Douglas Development has been offering a glimmer of hope: ANC Commissioner Myla Moss said at a meeting last week that she'd heard a group out of [...]
When news broke last week that the Real World DC was done shooting, an obvious question arose: "Now what happens to the house?!"*
Well, whatever it is—it won't involve MTV. The network's lease is up on Thanksgiving and it has no intention of extending the contract or buying the Dupont Circle property, according to spokesperson Tamika [...]
I mean it wouldn't be the first time, right?
Doug Jemal, head of Douglas Development, is one of D.C.'s top developers and property owners. His curling snakey symbol is all over the city, and I recently watched him in action, as he purchased an auction property located on Wisconsin Ave. The guys got cojones! But enough [...]
It's a prime piece of real estate, right there at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street NW. It has potential in all the mixed-use ways that make urban designers drool.
And so Tenleytown's Maxim building started out with a bidding price of $5 million today in a foreclosure auction at a downtown law firm. [...]
