Posts Tagged ‘Ivy City’
D.C. Offers Up Three More Schools for Re-Use
Webb Elementary School, where the architecture is not exactly beckoning.
Oh well, I guess I missed this: Aside from the eleven schools that the District is already trying to redevelop, three new schools have been offered up for re-use.
Those schools are Birney Elementary School in Anacostia next to Barry Farm, Rabaut Junior High School in Lamond-Riggs, and Webb Elementary School in Ivy City.
The Latest On Ivy City’s Redevelopment
For a brief refresher on exactly where the neighborhood is located (and just how much it needs to be revitalized), check out this Ivy City primer. This press release is from the mayor’s office:
Fenty Announces New Housing Initiative to Revitalize Ivy City
Aims to Double Neighborhood’s Homeownership Rate
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Tuesday announced a new initiative that will transform 37 long-vacant and blighted properties in Ivy City into market-rate and affordable housing and double the Northeast neighborhood’s homeownership rate.
“For far too long these vacant properties have been an endless source of problems for this community serving as places to deal drugs and dump trash,” said Mayor Fenty. “But that is going to change. We are making a highly concentrated investment here to transform this six-block area into a safer and healthier community where twice as many residents will own their own homes and have a real stake in the success of this community.” Read More “The Latest On Ivy City’s Redevelopment” »
The Rebirth of Ivy City?
Providence Street Northeast in Ivy City
Eight years ago, City Paper published a story about Ivy City, a long forgotten Northeast neighborhood bordered mostly by train tracks and Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The story’s headline is “Ghost Town.” Look at the above image, and tell me that wasn’t appropriate.
The article described a block with seven of 17 houses abandoned—So much vacant real estate in fact, “that a prostitute known as Country is able to use one semioccupied house as her residence and another fully empty house as her place of business.”
Another fittingly depressing line: “This is what it looks like when a neighborhood gets ready to die.”
But that was 2000. Perhaps 2009 will be a year of rebirth for Ivy City. Check out what just landed in my mailbox:
“[Tomorrow], Mayor Fenty will announce details of a new initiative aimed at redeveloping 37 vacant properties in a six-block stretch of Ivy City into market-rate and affordable housing…
