Posts tagged Historic Preservation
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Breakfast links: Challenges
MoCo big box bill unconstitutional?; “Science City” really just JHU profit city?; Safeway could block Skyland Walmart; Georgetown ok with Glover Park streetscape; Can RFK parking lots become ball fields?; Preservationists should be “picky”; Congress wants bike-ped shrunk in TIGER. Keep reading…
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Brunch links: Downtown building angst
Franklin occupied; Add 2 floors to MLK Library?; Evans the paradox; Bill pays WMATA, changes MWAA; How WMATA got religion on open data; TEDxPhilly learns problem with car dependence; Fixing vacant lots is healthy; What avenue are you?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Urban features come to Montgomery
Streetcar to Silver Spring?; Berliner against anti-urban Walmarts; Mall owner prefers a town instead; Jobs outstrip housing; Parking meter aesthetics matter; HPRB nominees: 6 months later, no changes; Food stamps down in DC, up in MD, VA; WMATA questions 14-hour workdays; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Relentless pursuit
6 stores, 1800 jobs, no CBA; Town makes land grab; Get baked or eat fried; DC likely to stay occupied; Bike share ads: Is there really a free lunch?; DC preserves Chinablock/town; Maryland businesses want transportation; Washingtonians are footloose; And…. 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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Lost Washington, DC brings back great buildings of the past
Where landmarks of commerce, residence, and society once stood, merely an incidental plaque often remains. Each marker conceals colorful memories and dynamic stories waiting to be resurrected and shared. A new work of timely and notable hometown scholarship does just that. John DeFerrari’s Lost Washington, DC (History Press, paperback, $19.95) reanimates lost… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The road ahead
Transportation policy running on empty; Should DC get its own park rules?; Do riders win or lose with Dyke?; PG seeks more speed cameras; What to do about Bethesda’s escalators?; Preservation parcels; Suggest your own CaBi locations; And…. Keep reading…
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Can the Ontario Theatre be saved?
The Ontario Theatre at 17th Street and Columbia Road NW has been neglected, abused even, for many years, and it hasn’t functioned as a movie theater in more than two decades. Although it takes some imagination to see what its possibilities are, one thing is certain: the theater has a long cultural legacy that will be lost if the building is demolished. As I recently detailed… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The new big thing
More signs for Chinatown?; DC getting a new tunnel; GM backpedals on anti-cyclist ad; New leader discovers MoCo problems; COG opposes airports takeover; DC eschews Superfund’s toxic stigma; Treehouse of horrors; Historic preservation a “black box”?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What you can’t have
Chinatown development scaled down… again; Parking permit exclusion among new bills; MoCo goes for mixed-use; Lawn mowing contract creates buzz; Why a fee shifting bill for cyclists?; Misspelled signs vanish quickly; Bikeshare-style car sharing launches in Paris; And…. Keep reading…