Last night, as blogger and ANC Commissioner Kent Boese proposed back in April, ANC 1A voted unanimously to endorse adding "Park View" to the Georgia Avenue-Petworth metro station. In doing so, the neighborhood joins the Capitol Riverfront and NoMa in requesting that their monikers be officially recognized by the Metro map, in advance of a new [...]
Jonathan O'Connell reports this morning that Lowe Enterprises, which brought the Sexy Safeway to Mount Vernon Square along with an almost sold-out condo and apartment complex, is hoping to do the same with the long-neglected Stinky Safeway at 3830 Georgia Avenue. If it's as well-designed as CityVista, the planned 210 housing units and new [...]
Some feel-good news for Friday, hey? So, there’s a building up on Webster Street in Petworth that has been looking for money to renovate for several years now. Enterprise Community Partners, a national group that’s doing good work to preserve affordable housing east of the river, gave them a small pre-development loan a few years [...]
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The transformation of the intersection of Georgia Ave. and New Hampshire Ave. is almost complete.
On the northeast corner sits the Petworth Metro Station, opened in 1999. The well-regarded Sweet Mango Cafe is directly south ("I want to bathe in this chicken" is a direct quote from Yelp.) Directly to the west, there are [...]
100 Bryant St. N.W. in Bloomingdale, which was bid up to
$380,000 in a January Auction.
Back in January, the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) held an auction for some 30 vacant homes and properties around D.C.
Sure, most were slummy—boarded up windows, austere yards, watermarked brick—but buyers recognized the few jewels, and in [...]
I'm trying to be fair and balanced here. I'm really, really trying.
So after weeks of posting about homeless shelter closures and Petworth and Columbia Heights residents rejecting a planned shelter in their neighborhood, I typed up a post entitled "A (Tiny) Bit of Good News for D.C.’s Homeless."
It was about roughly 15 homeless people moving [...]
This story will run in this week's print edition of the Washington City Paper.
Update: Central Union Mission Still Pursuing the Gales School.
In September, representatives with the Central Union Mission went before community members from Petworth and Columbia Heights to explain plans for a big project on Georgia Avenue NW. The mission wants to launch a [...]
I guess there aren't enough development stories to go around in this town! As I was reporting on the Central Union Mission's latest attempt to relocate its homeless shelter, DCmud was working on its own piece.
To summarize: After Petworth/Columbia Heights residents balked at a plan to open a 150-175 bed shelter in their neighborhood, [...]
Lately, I've been thinking about Buyer's Market, an old feature I wrote for Washington City Paper from February 2008 into the early fall. The purpose of the feature was to identify colossal price drops for various listed homes. At first, it was easy to find examples—there were frequently price drops above 20 percent. Ridiculous expectations [...]
Today was the official ribbon-cutting for The Residences at Georgia Avenue, a 72-unit affordable housing building in Petworth. It's a pretty sweet looking building for below-market-rate units. Here are some of the building's features, according to its leasing website:
Full kitchens with Dishwasher and Maple
cabinets
Individually Controlled Central Heating
and Air Conditioning
Energy efficient windows and appliances
[...]
