Transit-Based Development

There’s a couple big projects around Metro stations on my radar lately. First, after a groundbreaking in October construction is well underway at the Mosaic At Metro project at the Prince George’s Plaza station. I don’t know much about the project, but found this interesting blurb on the website of AGM Financial Services, who is […]

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Daily Posts U-M Employee Earnings

I was recently emailed by someone looking for the newest University of Michigan employee salary data, as this website was the first place to post the data in an electronic format. (The Michigan Daily has for years published a special print “supplement” at the end of the school year.) I noticed the Daily has posted […]

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My Welcome to College Park

So, the second piece of correspondence coming my direction from the College Park area behind the admissions letter notifying my acceptance to grad school was a letter from the “Graduate Hils & Graduate Gardens Apartment Homes” at 3424 Tulane Drive in nearby Hyattsville, Maryland. The letter congratulated me on my admissions to the university urging […]

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How Fast Is Sprint’s EV-DO?

After I asked about the service, Sprint has activated the phone-as-modem feature of the new Sprint Power Vision phone they sent me to test. The phone takes advantage of Sprint’s high-speed data network (EV-DO) to allow you to watch live and on-demand audio and video, and download and listen to music from their music store. […]

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Mural No More

I noticed yesterday a large mural on the side of the 14th Street bookstore Candida’s World of Books is being bricked over for new construction that’s part of the Matrix condo building. A number of large luxury condo buildings are under construction on that stretch of 14th Street.

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