Posts Tagged ‘Penn Quarter’

Not in My Condo’s Backyard!

Folks who live in the District’s residential neighborhoods have a strong sense of entitlement to quiet, to parking, to darkness at night—all the things that come with the kind of house where you can have a driveway and a picket fence.
Living downtown is supposed to be different. This is the District’s public zone, after all, [...]

NoMa: The Better-Designed L’Enfant Plaza?

A person in the business development field told me something interesting yesterday: People in his circle were starting to worry that NoMa, with all of of its recent large governmental leases, could start feeling like an office zone akin to the barren wasteland at L'Enfant Plaza and Federal Center, if landlords weren't careful. NoMa's glassy [...]

National Journal Goes Retail

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 [...]

New Friendship Heights Whole Foods Opening in 2010

View Whole Foods Triangle in a larger map
...Or as an alternative albeit too lengthy headline, I could have written "New Whole Foods to Create Upper Northwest Whole Foods Triumvirate."
Check that out above: Whole Foods is adding its third location on Wisconsin Avenue, and its third in the same little Bethesda/upper Northwest area.  The central one, [...]

How Much Does a Square Foot Cost in Adams Morgan, Penn Quarter, Etc.?

For my story this week, I briefly chatted with William Rich, Vice President of real estate research firm Delta Associates, based in Alexandria. We discussed the price-per-square-foot of condos in some of the District's hottest neighborhoods. Since most of the information didn't make it in the piece, I thought I'd share here*:
City Average:$510
Adams Morgan/U [...]