Posts tagged Columbia Heights
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Morning links: Don’t walk here, bike over there
Reckless walking; Giving a lane to bikes makes all traffic better; Berliner calls for “sustainable transportation corridor”; Secret affordable housing; Walking through 16th and Park? We don’t care; Not even pretending anymore; On the slow track; Not necessarily the best car; Bike to brothel. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Peas and carrots
Building a hotel? Build a bike station too; Council holds land deals; Spoil the land for the greater good?; Hope Park?; Don’t close ‘em, add concessions; Old buildings are green; Parking around the globe; Just a little bit. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Watch out
A new low; New bus bunching watchdog; Obama park?; Dangerous or uninformed?; If all spending were that dumb, we’d all agree to cut it; Portland to copy us; Boo for ghostboxes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking aim
Shooting in Columbia Heights; Dissecting the transportation bill; Dulles United? Wheaton United?; Finally thinking about peds and bikes; Green Falls Church?; Stopping “jamitons”. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: The Savoy Theater
The Savoy was originally built in the Colonial Revival style in 1913 near the intersection of 14th Street and Columbia Rd., NW. In 1916, the Savoy Theater company sold the building to Harry M. Crandall, Washington’s early movie mogul. The Savoy was his fourth theater, Crandall’s goal being to have a movie house in every Washington neighborhood. After purchasing… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Save the planet
Streetlights of the future; 30-plus years behind the times: NPS of course; DC gets a B on trees; Have Obama’s first 100 days greened DC?; Energy efficiency stimulus will go to solar panels and bags; U Street hotel gets a little shorter; 5th and Mass gets a little safer; 1904 book promotes Columbia Heights; Hugs and helmets. Keep reading…
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Now there’s really too much parking at DC USA
The latest casualty of the economic downturn is a second grocery store at Columbia Heights. Ellwood Thompson had planned a store in the DC USA complex, but has now postponed those plans indefinitely, telling Richmond BizSense, “It’s just not prudent to expand into a new market with the economy the way it is.” (Tip: Jon G.)… Keep reading…