Howard University may be building two big new dorms at a cost of $107 million, but don't take that to mean that the school is flush with cash.
According to an internal Howard staff memo from Jan. 31, the university is making a few cuts to help tackle a "significant budget challenge." The memo, signed by [...]

For our Education Issue last month, I wrote about Howard University's dilemma as it finds itself sitting on valuable vacant lots: take them to the bank by allowing private, profitable development there, or convert them into much-needed student housing or other facilities that don't make money but do improve campus life?
Today, Howard announced a big [...]

This week, Washington City Paper brings you the Education Issue. The whole thing's a good read: Check out Will Sommer on George Washington University's year in exile from the U.S. News and World Report rankings and Ben Freed on the University of the District of Columbia's mortuary school. But if you're hankering for a real estate [...]

It may not look like much, but this is one of D.C.'s most valuable pieces of vacant land, and it's up for grabs.
This morning, officials from the office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development held a so-called preresponse conference on the vacant city-owned parcel at 965 Florida Ave. NW, a block north [...]

If for some reason you read just this blog and not the rest of the paper, allow me to director your attention to this week's cover story by Shani Hilton, which cuts through the noise and puts together a unified field theory of why wealthy universities fight with their wealthy neighbors. I particularly enjoyed this [...]

As if Georgetown and American University weren't enough, Howard University will also be filing a 10-year campus plan with the Zoning Commission soon. A draft has already found its way onto the internet, and it's worth a read if you want to know pretty much everything there is to know about Howard real estate. The [...]

'Tis the season for campus plans: Georgetown's will hit the Zoning Commission tonight (students are organizing buses to support it, while neighbors in opposition are arranging car pools), the University of the District of Columbia has its first hearing next month, American should come up soon after that. Howard is still formulating a detailed draft, [...]

At the moment, developer Lakritz Adler is the only known bidder for a Metro-owned stretch of Florida Avenue N.W. between 7th and 9th Streets. Their proposal includes a 180,000 square foot hotel and conference center for Howard University, plus a 100,000 square foot office and retail building and a "prominent freestanding restaurant." Development in that [...]

After digesting public comments on what should go into the 62-acre Walter Reed campus, planners have come up with a sketch of proposed uses that includes 2.4 million square feet of retail, educational, residential, cultural, hotel, and office space.
At the last community meeting in July, attendees were presented with four concept options: a mostly educational [...]

A long-decrepit apartment complex was formally reborn yesterday, as top D.C. housing officials welcomed 28 families to the Williston Apartments just south of Howard University, an area still pockmarked with falling-down buildings.
The 1940s-era structures had gone into serious disrepair through the 1990s, when the belonged to a non-profit tax credit partnership called the Capitol City [...]