Today’s Washington Post includes a front page story that takes a sprawling look at stalled development projects across the region. The authors take particular care to focus in on the jumble of projects by the Southeast Waterfront near Nationals Park:

Perhaps no area is more central to the District’s long-term ambitions than the streets around Nationals Park. At every opportunity, Fenty talks of a cosmopolitan destination featuring new parks, offices, stylish apartments and restaurants, all of it along the Anacostia River.

Yet, how soon that vision materializes is fraught with uncertainty.

A half-mile from the ballpark, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and developer Monument Realty intended to turn what was once a public school and then a homeless shelter into an art school and apartments. But Monument withdrew in August, as its equity partner, Lehman Brothers, collapsed, leaving Corcoran to find another developer.

Along Half Street SE, the block leading to the stadium’s entrance, Monument hung slick black banners promising “a whole new playground” — new apartments, new dining, new hotel rooms and new shopping. Behind the billboards is a crater that is more than half a city block long and three stories deep. Read More “What’s Going On With Monument Realty and the Southeast Waterfront?” »

From the office of the mayor:

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty along with executives of Florida Rock Properties on Monday unveiled plans for more than a million square feet of development at the foot of Nationals Park along the Anacostia River…

As a condition of the zoning approval, Florida Rock agreed to donate $800,000 to the District to help pay for the construction of Diamond Teague Park, which will be built alongside the concrete plant site, providing a green gateway between Nationals Park and the Anacostia River.

Florida Rock’s “Riverfront on the Anacostia” will include about 560,000 square feet of residential and hotel space – with 29,000 square feet reserved for affordable housing. It will also include about 545,000 square feet of commercial office space, at least 80,000 square feet of retail and a large waterfront plaza with a waterfront promenade. Construction could begin as soon as 2011.

Diamond Teague, as it turns out, was a member of the Earth Conservation Corp, a group of D.C. teens that clean the Anacostia River. He was murdered five years ago, when he was 19, according to the press release. WAMU interviewed his mother, who said that former mayor Tony Williams once met her son at an event, and later promised to name something after Diamond after he died. For more on the waterfront plans, check out the developer’s renderings here.