Heard about this from an email from the planning school: The District of Columbia Pedestrian Master Plan has launched their project website AND online survey (see links below). If you live or work in the District, please take a few minutes to complete the short survey, and then forward it along to any friends/colleagues/neighbors who […]
DC Bloggers Meetup in January
After several months of small Meetups, Patrick and I are putting together a meetup for January to re-start the group. Hope you can make it! DC Blogger January Meetup Jan. 17, 7:00 p.m. RFD – 810 7th Street NW
Can Wheaton Become the Next Silver Spring?
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 […]
What Will be the Fate of Washington’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library?
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 […]
Races I Was Watching
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 […]
Victory In Shaw
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
National Mall to Get a Plan
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 […]