The Goodspeed Update

A motley collection of one and two-story strip malls in the DC suburb of Wheaton, Maryland is poised to be transformed into a high density urban downtown. Montgomery County officials have declared victory in downtown Silver Spring, where a decades-long redevelopment process injected millions of dollars of new development into what was an economically depressed […]

The future of Washington’s downtown Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library hangs in the balance. A bill now pending before the DC Council’s Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation proposes to construct a new central library on the old convention center site, and lease the old structure as office space to help pick up the […]

With so many candidates and initiatives on the ballots across the country yesterday I thought it would be worthwhile to point out a few items I was watching.
Although it was exciting to watch the Democrats take back the House for the first time since 1994, the evening wasn’t without its disappointments. At the top of […]

ANC SMD 2C02
Kevin Chapple - 51.79%
Leroy Joseph Thorpe, Jr. - 48.00%
ANC SMD 2C01
Alex Padro - 70.08%
Mary Sutherland - 28.25%
Full results on BOEE

The National Park Service is launching a public process to create a new plan for the National Mall. The process will be kicked off next Wednesday, November 15 at a daylong symposium at the Naval Heritage Center at Navy Memorial where a rotating panel will discuss the mall in the context of the “needs of […]

Pierre L’Enfant’s plan for the city of Washington included radial avenues named after states superimposed over a grid of lettered and numbered streets. Inevitably, the intersection between the avenues and the grid result in a number of small triangular lots, and many lots with at least one acute, wedge-shaped corner. (This has resulted in many […]

Percentage of total households reporting “no vehicle available” on question H44 on the 2000 Census, with total number of occupied housing units in parentheses:
Ithica, NY (10,253) - 24.6%
Berkeley, CA (44,955) - 17.0%
Charlottesville, VA (16,851) - 14.2%
Madison, WI (88,845) - 11.8%
Chapel Hill, NC (17,932) - 11.3%
College Park, MD (6,046) - 10.14%
Ann Arbor, MI (45,674) - 9.55%