Posts tagged Historic Preservation
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Breakfast links: Flood’s fury
Devastation in Ellicott City; Derailment investigation; SafeTrack comes to the Red line; More respect for Metro workers; The Flats at WMATA HQ?; Questionable urbanism; Fired up over fire station; Millennial affordability; AC catch-22; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hottest day of the year
Record-setting heat; Too hot for fast trains; Can’t ban RPP?; New office, historic buildings; More red signal fallout; Lights out, Metro still running; NYC’s Metro-style shutdown; Lightning damage on the L. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Demand is hot for VRE and housing
Stay cool during surge #5; Roads and VRE use up; Enough housing?; Cabbie fortunes flip; Potomac Yard gets a boost; SafeTrack work woes; Trainspotting gets easier; Baltimore housing is in distress; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dollars and deaths in Maryland
I-270 spending; Shuttle buses for MoCo; Second cyclist killed; Farewell for a historic fire station?; SafeTrack shuttle SNAFU; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave … SE; LA’s newest Metro line; Road rage on the rise; And (where to find cars)…; Drink with us!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Beating the heat
It’s getting hot in here; Had it with hot cars; Metro’s bad budget news; Can you hear me now?; Abandoned home angst; Hardly a plan in Arlington; Fuzzy math on robberies; More bus bays for King Street; This week in approvals; Big sales in the suburbs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Abodes well?
Historic house flipping; Data for desegregation; Here comes surge #4; Mic on Metro; Ride hail by the numbers; Rosslyn’s newest high rises; Catch ‘em all on the Mall; A new symbol for the FBI site; And…. Keep reading…
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This vacant tower could become your favorite new bar
There’s an old rail control tower on 2nd Street SW, a few blocks from where CSX is rebuilding the Virginia Avenue Tunnel, and CSX has agreed to do major work on the tower as part of the rail project. Could it become a museum or a bar? Could someone live there? There are great possibilities, but also unique challenges. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Building bridges
SafeTrack surge #3; Riders say sayonara after SafeTrack; Arlington Memorial bridge isn’t falling down; AU students get a Metro pass; Plans for the Bethesda plaza; DC schools lack accessibility; Books in barbershops; Mourning for murals in Annapolis; Lamont Street Collective gone; Subsidized artist abodes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to find housing
DC short on housing stock; Sprawl isn’t cheap; NoVa’s big rail and road plan; Church conversion; Obama’s architect; Reunited and it feels so good; Bus showdown in Albuquerque; Autopilot death; Party on the roof. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New name, same taxi game
Taxicab commission changes; Fairfax ups FAR; Plans to hold back the floodwaters; Georgetown connects the bike trails; Still stuck on SunTrust; More residential for Woodley Park; Bike theft doesn’t discriminate; Hit and run; Bike commuter benefits; And…. Keep reading…