Posts by AJ Earl — Fellow
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DC General closed, Arlington got HQ2, Bowser wants a new stadium. What’s next for Hill East?
Residents in the Hill East neighborhood are still in the dark about the future of 67 acres of ill-used land sandwiched nearby between Capitol Hill and the Anacostia River known as Reservation 13. Keep reading…
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This local partnership hopes to fix the region’s housing shortage
With Amazon HQ2 site selection coming down to the wire, a group of business leaders and a major socially-oriented research organization have come together to challenge the region to address its livability issues head-on. Keep reading…
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On C Street they paved a pair of tracks, put up a parking lot
The DC Streetcar expansion is still up in the air, and the current H Street line and Benning Road extension are only a small fraction of the extensive system that once ran through the region. Nonetheless, they can still evoke memories of the glory days of streetcar travel in the region, which fostered quirky things like the tiny C Street tunnel that went under Senate Park. Keep reading…
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Is the Washington region prepared for storms like Hurricane Florence?
Hurricane Florence is finally spinning away from the Carolinas, leaving a destructive wake including at least 32 people dead. The threat had governments in the Washington region engaging their emergency management plans and assessing how they would act in the case of a direct hit. Are we ready for destructive storms? Keep reading…