Safeway and Clark Realty Capital have released new sketches of their mixed-use plan for 42nd and Ellicott Street NW by Torti Gallas, which they kicked off a couple months ago. It's sure an improvement over the last one.

American University has been fighting the neighborhood on several fronts to get approval for a campus plan that includes moving its law school to the former Immaculata Seminary at Yuma Street and Nebraska Avenue NW. Naturally, one of them has to do with preservation: The Tenleytown Historical Society has submitted a landmark application for the [...]

As the Washington Business Journal reported last week, Douglas Development is moving forward again on the long-troubled Babe's Billiards site in Tenleytown: Five floors of apartments with ground floor retail on the corner of Wisconsin and Brandywine Street NW, which will replace a one-story commercial building. Read all about it in their application to the [...]

Out of all the campus plans working their way towards the Zoning Commission this year, the University of the District of Columbia's is somewhat unique: None of the others are attempting to transform themselves into something entirely different. With this year's launch of the Community College of the District of Columbia–which will accommodate many of [...]

D.C. Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper’s office, on the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, is in some ways a reminder of failure: It’s too big, and a set of fraying modernist chairs, original to the 1973 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building, have grown too delicate to sit on. Cooper, a [...]

Last year, during the game of musical chairs that had D.C. government agencies moving around to different buildings all over the city, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer decided to move some of its data center operations to the newly-purchased warehouse at 225 Virginia Avenue instead of the Unified Communications Center, as previously planned. [...]

It's been nearly five years in the making, but construction of Tenleytown's new library is finally underway. The mayor kicked off the project with an official groundbreaking this morning.
As I wrote this spring, the city once planned to build a more ambitious mixed-use development with housing at the site. A public/private partnership could have funneled [...]

I can't keep up with—nor do I want to keep up with—all the twists and turns in the Tenleytown Library saga. By this point, there have been so many acts in this drama, it's damn near impossible to recall them all.
But if you're new to this epic, allow me to offer a pithy summary: The [...]

A week ago today, I attended an auction downtown for a prime piece of property in Tenleytown, at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street, N.W.
After a tension-filled bidding war with a representative from American University, developer Doug Jemal came away with the win. For five million dollars, he strolled out of the building [...]

It's a prime piece of real estate, right there at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street NW. It has potential in all the mixed-use ways that make urban designers drool.
And so Tenleytown's Maxim building started out with a bidding price of $5 million today in a foreclosure auction at a downtown law firm. [...]