Posts tagged Convention Center
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Breakfast links: Boo[ndoggles]
Shootings mar Halloween; TE “boondoggles” never got funded; Evans’ firm represented hotel partner; 3 years to MoCo BRT?; Metro ridership going down; New Tourmobile now, Circulator later; Tenants purchase building after fight; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Scrutiny for new business
Walmarts see design scrutiny; ANC may dry H St; DC gets a new bus line; Gas tax increase unlikely in Maryland; Accenture moves to transit location; NYC chooses bike share system, imitates DC; Parking problems frustrate for decades; Dostoevsky on DC; And…. Keep reading…
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Three years ago, GGW was born
Greater Greater Washington started publishing three years ago yesterday. What were we writing about then? Quite a few things that were still relevant today. Parking policy: Tommy Wells spoke at a Coalition for Smarter Growth forum about parking and how he himself became a convert on performance parking because of all the cars the baseball stadium was going to bring to his… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The cost of roads
Virginia borrow-for-roads bill advances; Maryland may increase tolls; Northern Virginia grows quickly; How did the candidates do?; Adams Morgan streetscape project starts soon; Metro stations, long ago; Convention Center hotel construction closes sidewalk; Social Security chooses suburban location for new center; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fewer trains, more cars
Longer trains on Red Line; Women’s History Museum moves forward; Scrambling in Northern Virginia; More bike lanes, not in Chevy Chase; Convention Center hotel in Shaw; Clean the Anacostia; Hooking up on P Street; Taking on Buy America. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Objects in motion
Convention center hotel back on track; Exurbs become “gated ghettos”; Ped hit at Wisconsin and M; Stroll and circulate freely; Blogging transit agencies; Give us our squares; JetBlue really coming to DCA; On politics. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Park and ride
No parking including city employees; Enforcing on the enforcers; Parking tickets aren’t taxes; Pay to valet; Krugman looks where Samuelson doesn’t; What’s really inefficient is freeway building; Baltimore testing smartcard; If you’re happy and you know it ride the train. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: My way for the highway
We’d be sad if we hit you, so get out of the road; Think parking debates are rough here?; Foot traffic on Ninth Street, or just under?; A Homerian tragedy; When no free spaces are free; Car clips; Transit tidbits. Keep reading…
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Living within our means
A $750 million public financing deal for a convention center hotel had scarcely appeared on the table before it was taken off again. One of the driving forces behind the fall of that proposal? DC’s recently enacted debt cap. It’s an early sign that this tool will help keep our leaders fiscally honest, especially when it comes to economic development subsidies. Keep reading…
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Evans-Silverman: two worlds, two boxes of tools
Interviewing Jack Evans and Cary Silverman, the candidates for the Ward 2 DC Council seat, one could think the two are running for completely different offices. Evans seems to be running for reelection as the Council version of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, devoting his energy to financing deals that will stimulate development throughout DC. Meanwhile,… Keep reading…