Posts tagged Demolition By Neglect
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National links: Finding alternatives to demolition
The problem with demolition. Pedestrians step up to fight climate change and traffic violence. A potential environmental disaster. And more in today’s National links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hijackings and low points
Metrobus hijacking; Metro’s bad report; Fear of trains; Dethroning slumlords; Make way for the Purple Line; Defeating displacement; No urge to surge; Testing, testing; The new group house; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ready to rumble
Taxi Commission meeting gets rowdy; A chicken fight; Drivers misuse Dulles Access Highway; Shutdown hurt low-wage workers most; Do subsidies steer supermarkets?; Saving one abandoned building at a time; More Red Line delays frustrate riders; Walmart plans for Oxon Hill; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Neglect
Entrepreneur lets estate decay; Where’s the exit, Metro?; Building falls down; Some live off the beaten path; Walkable North Bethesda vs. U Street; Time to shuffle committees?; Soccer proposal gets numbers; McDonnell backing off Silver Line. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: True or false?
Myth zone; DC homelessness rises?; Head of the class; 2% is not enough; Too neglected to fix; Trees and more change; Art in Alexandria; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Burn
Imhoff/Brizill house burns down; Cabbies behaving badly; Whose gax tax is it?; Preserve ze space; Flip the switch, save a bird; Why biking to school got rare; And…. Keep reading…
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Anacostia loses another 19th century home from neglect
For the past two decades Hannah Hawkins has watched a 120-year-old house gradually deteriorate behind the community center she runs in historic Anacostia. The crumbling home at 2228 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE will be demolished this spring. The Department of Housing and Community Development has owned the home and several adjacent properties since July 2010. DHCD filed… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: World-sized ideas
Will giant globe perch over freeway?; Dupont underground movies?; What agencies say about buildings; Petition against the sidepath law; Height limit = high prices in one city; Traffic is bad for you, biking good; The decline of pedestrian rights; And…. Keep reading…
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Demolition by neglect plagues Anacostia
Residents of Anacostia have been waiting for revitalization to reach their corner of DC, but have found even their own government failing to keep buildings from eroding away. “Welcome to HISTORIC ANACOSTIA” read a sign, with a soft southern sigh, enclosed by yellow caution tape at the foundation of the northwest corner of Good Hope Road SE and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Future of the suburbs is transit
Suburban walkable places the future?; Pound foolish; Transit “poison pill” still not dead; Washington Circle of Death; Small steps for safety; Leaning house of Shaw; Nextboooooos?. Keep reading…