Remember those big glassy office blocks planned for the intersection of South Capitol Street and the Anacostia Freeway? Developer Jeff Epperson with Urban-City Ventures was going for the Department of Homeland Security's request for 1.2 million square feet of consolidated office space. He'll need to think of something else to put there: Bisnow is reporting [...]

I'm usually not one to engage in "I wish X looked like Y" thinking. As helpful as it can be to imagine an unsatisfactory status quo as something wholly different, that's not much use if there's no feasible way to make it so.
But the vision offered by Brooklyn Bridge Park, which only a few years [...]

A development application for the 10 acres straddling Howard Road SE has landed at the Office of Planning, and it's pretty easy to understand: 1.2 million square feet of office space set up for the Department of Homeland Security as the sole tenant.
This could be the final game plan for the site, which has gone [...]

It's been six months since Clark Realty pulled out of the Poplar Point project—the massive development that was supposed make  Ward 8 "a destination point for people in the metropolitan area," as fervent local activist Philip Pannell put it. 
And it's been roughly the same amount of time since D.C. United started eyeing locations outside Poplar [...]

First, the plan to build D.C. United's stadium in Washington fell through. Then, the plan to move it to P.G. County fell through. Then, people speculated about whether moving it to Frederick County Maryland (check out Frederick's location on this map) would be a good move. My opinion: no. And now...This is happening:

United fans to [...]

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Frederick: Pretty damn far away from Washington D.C.
Does anyone want D.C. United?
First Washington D.C. rejected the soccer team because, as Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans stated, the project lacked a "champion."
Then yesterday, the P.G. County Council voted 8-0 against a proposal authorizing a feasibility study for the new stadium. According to [...]

Well, this is a blow.
The Washington Post reports this morning that D.C. United owner Victor MacFarlane wants to build a stadium—correct that "urban stadium"—in Prince George's County, not the District.
In late January, Clark Realty and the city ended their partnership to transform Poplar Point, a 110-acre section of Ward 8, into a huge new mecca [...]

From Real Estate Bisnow:
"After Clark Realty exited the Poplar Point project recently, the key question became: What happens now? This afternoon, we talked with DC spokesman Sean Madigan, who says that after the results from an environmental impact study come back in April or May, the city will come up with a few new development [...]

The Washington Post has obtained a letter from Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry to Mayor Adrian Fenty. Not surprisingly, the tone isn't terribly cordial. Barry says that the mayor has set back the Poplar Point project in numerous ways—that it will be tough to find a new developer, tough to build enthusiasm in the community [...]

Ward 8 leader Philip Pannell
Last february, I interviewed a couple Ward 8 residents and civic leaders about the Poplar Point project. Many of them saw Poplar Point as Ward 8's only chance to be fundamentally and irreversibly revitalized. Others weren't too pumped about the proposal and losing green space. 
The plan included residences, offices, restaurants, a park and, [...]