Posts tagged Babe's Project
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Breakfast links: New ways to live and move
Uber takes a taxi; Babe’s gets the nod; Bike to Obama; A national VMT tax?; Call them the Washington Deforesters; Will school closings save money?; An affordable little neighborhood; “Embarrassing” anti-dooring law?; And…. Keep reading…
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Our living and transportation choices gain diversity
The early analysis of the presidential election suggests that President Obama can credit much of his victory to a changing American electorate, which is more diverse, better educated and more urban than it was 20 years ago when Bill Clinton became president. Keep reading…
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Every building doesn’t need to be the same
Bruce DePuyt and I talked Tuesday about the Babe’s project, a planned 55-65-unit apartment building one block from Tenleytown Metro which will not have underground parking and whose residents will not be able to get resident parking stickers. Keep reading…
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“Bravo” to parking-free development in Tenleytown
After more than 3 years of meetings, discussions, proposals and counter-proposals, ANC 3E Thursday night unanimously supported a controversial proposal to build a new residential building with ground-floor retail on a corner near the Tenleytown Metro station. My house is located on the same block as this site, the old Babe’s Billiards at the northwest corner of Wisconsin… Keep reading…
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Parking-free, mixed-use building is right for Tenleytown
Douglas Development wants to rebuild Tenleytown’s long-vacant Babe’s Billiards into a mixed-use development with 60 residential units and ground floor retail space. Perhaps most significantly, Douglas wants to build no parking at all on the site. The once-popular neighborhood nightspot has been shuttered for several years, despite its location just a few… Keep reading…