There have been so many plans for development of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site that if you put them together in a slideshow, it might make for a dramatic film—except with no clear heroes or villains, and no happy ending. Yet, at least.
The most recent main characters are trying to provide one. In their first [...]
With a budget gap yawning into the next few years, Mayor-elect Vince Gray has put developers on notice that not all of their big projects—Hill East, Walter Reed, the Southwest Waterfront, to name a few—will get the public funding they were expecting.
That puts them all in competition with each other to move to the front [...]
Three weeks ago, the design and development teams tasked with the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site started over on the long, painstaking process of doing something with the area that neighbors could accept. After another couple of salons with interested residents, the planners came back to St. Martin's Church on Saturday morning with [...]
Well, I didn't see this coming. After everyone and their mother attended the pre-bid conference for redeveloping the Bruce Monroe School site on Georgia Avenue–now happily occupied by a large, if bland, park–only one partnership actually got together a bid for the site, Michael Neibauer reports. The proposal, from townhouse specialist EYA and Georgia Avenue [...]
There has been plan after plan after plan for the redevelopment of the McMillan sand filtration plant east of First Street NW. Yesterday, project leaders got community members to begin yet again.
In the first of three public meetings, several dozen community members hunkered down in St. Martin's Church on Saturday morning with principals from the [...]
Planning around the McMillan Sand Filtration Site, the 25-acre grassland between Howard University and North Capitol Street, has long been contentious–as is any project involving massive private development on a site of historical significance. But if last night's meeting of the McMillan Advisory Group is any indication, things have escalated recently. Community activist Tony Norman [...]
EYA is going for transit-oriented development in a big way, if its metro car advertisements are any indication. At the risk of stating the obvious, considering how much it seems like parking concerns tend to retard new business development, building communities that help residents live car-free is a huge thing.
Within seven to nine years, the area around Brookland's Metro station will be built up with artist studio spaces, condos, townhouses and "college town retail—coffee shops, sit-down restaurants, book shops, bike shops" as one representative for developer Jim Abdo put it.
But Abdo's not the only developer sticking a shovel in neighborhood soil soon. Just down [...]
It turns out Ward 8's Marion Barry is not the only councilmember embroiled in nonprofit drama.
Remember that nice 237-home development I wrote about? A Brookland seminary offered up the land—once occupied by old sports fields—now that their student body has dwindled.
Well, Ward 5's Harry Thomas Jr. came out vigorously in support of the project, despite reservations [...]
EYA-representative Aakash Thakkar, center left in the blue shirt, opens the tour.
On Saturday morning, I joined roughly 100 other people for a tour of the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant.
Given the weekend morning time, I figured the crowd would be docile and relatively quiet. But true to what's now becoming classic McMillan, there was an early [...]
