Posts tagged Historic Preservation
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Breakfast links: Underpaid
Capital Bikeshare underpays workers?; Food trucks protest; Veterans crash; Reverse commute trips rise; Metro redesign gets a redesign; Who’s the most anti-growth?; Vandalism plagues bus stops; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Meet the new boss
Foxx for DOT; A gift to ethics; Franklin School draws interest; Will autonomy survive?; Concrete blame game; Last stop for gas; Transportation trends; Plant a tree. Keep reading…
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Georgetown Heating Plant: Monument or eyesore?
Last month, a consortium of investors, including the Levy Group and Four Seasons, won the auction to purchase the historic West Heating Plant on 29th Street in Georgetown. The future of the building is now in doubt, but is it worth saving as is? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let the bikes continue
Army Navy cycle track; Trail trials; Empty warehouse or market?; Police unions differ on cameras; We’re number 4!; The recession halted “job sprawl”; Groceries on the bus?; Don’t panic about Cheh bill; Next stop, extreme wealth. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who’s on top
Bonds leads, Silverman ties Mara; Bikeshare blossoms; Meet the parking anger; Preserve eastern Chinatown?; Bigger, better stations; No fed dollars for Pike streetcar; Beauregard rezoned; This camera’s a fake; LaHood talks tough on bike safety. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay in your lane
MoCo bus lanes get a yes; HOT lanes’ cool reception; Parking cents in Bethesda; Cyclists under attack; Alexandria’s “trolley” defended; What school will go to St. E’s?; 5333 gets permits; Gray: I’m energetic!; And…. Keep reading…
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FBI headquarters could stay downtown, but at a cost
As the FBI searches for a new headquarters location, most of the options have focused on the suburbs or Poplar Point, but Washingtonian reports on another proposal: Keep it downtown, at H Street and North Capitol Street, NW. But that location has serious downsides. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Underregulation? Overregulation?
Pop up and up and up; Why the food truck rules?; No renting your house short term; Mobile Metro gets better; Three more years (of Sarles); Transportation money and lockbox; Alexandria wants to double CaBi; No to Pike lanes; And… Keep reading…
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When the cars had won the war
Martin Austermuhle made a whimsical point on Twitter about this picture, a 1992 historical photograph DCist featured to celebrate the convention center’s 10th birthday: Keep reading…
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Preservation problems: predictability and pellucidity
The latest historic preservation plan essentially concludes that people don’t trust historic preservation in DC because they don’t know enough about it, and recommends that staff and advocates push harder to persuade people of preservation’s positive effects. As I argued yesterday, that’s not preservation’s primary problem. Rather,… Keep reading…