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 [...]
A bit more information is coming out on the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant planning process—all the players seem to be in place now, and we have a rough picture of the project’s long term fiscal impact on the District.
First, the architects—there are five. I mentioned last week that Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects had been [...]
As plans for the McMillan sand filtration site have sat on the shelf, and a new battery of studies gets underway, the Vision McMillan development team has quietly hired a new master planner to knit the vast site together. Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, an unspellable architecture firm based out of New York with offices in [...]
Hidden in the mayor's reprogramming of money from the Kenilworth Recreation Center to Hill East–which Councilmember Yvette Alexander held up to the last moment–was a little-noticed line item: Funding for traffic and historic preservation studies at the McMillan Sand filtration plant, which has been stalled for about half a year now. Today, Michael Neibauer reports [...]
"Our McMillan," a group of local Bloomingdale activists pushing for more green space in the McMillan development, is hosting a panel discussion on the site's history tonight.
The event will be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 160 U Street, from 7 to 9 PM. The announcement says a "panel of architects and historic preservation [...]
I try to keep up with my McMillan site news. But if I blogged about every twist regarding D.C.'s most famous, non-functioning water filtration system, the topic would be all-consuming.
If you're new to the McMillan controversy, here's a quickie review: The McMillan site is a 25-acre parcel of land located just west of North Capitol [...]
I've written a ton about the development of the McMillan Sand Filtration site: The plan for the 25-acre Bloomingdale parcel, the opposition to the project, the various conspiracy theories surrounding McMillan:
The people that think cheap chicken joints will dominate the supposedly classy retail
The people that think the developers are planting supporters in community meetings
The people [...]
An artistic rendering of development plans by Vision McMillan Partners
The McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site is a 25-acre parcel of land by the intersection of North Capitol Street and Michigan Avenue, Northwest. Recently, a development team unveiled plans re-imagining the land as a mixed-use community with up to 1,200 housing units, a grocery store, retail—the works.
One guy, [...]
An artistic rendering of the amphitheater at the McMillan site.
I wanted to post a few more details about the McMillan site plans presented on Saturday.
(For those that don't know, the McMillan Sand Filtration site is 25-acre parcel of land at the corner of North Capitol Street and Michigan Avenue, Northwest. A water filtration plant operated [...]
