Posts tagged Ivy City
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Breakfast links: 525 housing units on Tastee Diner site gain preliminary approval
The sweet taste of more housing: Preliminary plans approved for 30-story building on Tastee Diner site. Urban planning 🤝 public health in Arlington & DC’s top fitness ranking. Warehouse development moves forward in Ivy City. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Amtrak to update Ivy City railyard ahead of new fleet arrivals
Amtrak investing $1 billion in major rail yard upgrades, including $350 million in DC. Some of the DC area’s vacant retail space remains that way on purpose. Arlington still doesn’t have to pay HQ2 incentives. Keep reading…
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An updated Crummell School plan swaps 32 apartments for more green space
More than 50 Ivy City residents and other community members gathered at Bethesda Baptist Church on February 11 to hear the latest proposed developments for the historic Crummell School site. A bill introduced in late 2017 that received a hearing in June would lease an approximately 100,000-square-foot plot of city land to a development team for 99 years at the rate of $1 per year. Keep reading…
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What DC can learn from walkable communities around the country (Part 2)
Urbanist author Philip Langdon uses six neighborhoods around the country of varying density, age, urban character, and geographical location as case examples for which kinds of built environments lead to places that are walkable, community-oriented, pleasant to live in, and economically successful. Keep reading…
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McDuffie: To help you stay, we need to build homes for new residents
At a June hearing about a controversial development in DC’s Ivy City neighborhood, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyon McDuffie engaged in a series of meaningful exchanges with neighbors, and in the process made a clear case for why officials must keep pushing for new homes. Keep reading…
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At this abandoned school, can YIMBYs support fewer homes and more parkland?
The historic, long-abandoned Crummell School and the surrounding area in the Ivy City neighborhood in Northeast DC are planned for redevelopment. Out of the three proposals put forward, the city recently chose the proposal that builds the most new homes, including a significant number of affordable homes. Keep reading…
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New York Ave is a terrible place to walk, but better sidewalks are coming
Plans are underway to make a car-oriented stretch of New York Avenue NE and its surrounding streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. The most visible element of the project will be new bike infrastructure in the area, but residents are also concerned about making it easier to walk along the street. That’s a big priority for the District Department of Transportation as well. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dude, where’s my bus funding?
No budget for late-night buses; Say goodbye to traffic studies; District-owned to developed; From corner to circle; Four strikes, you’re out; Calm roads are safer roads; And…. Keep reading…
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Our endorsements for ANC in Ward 5
Bloomingdale, Trinidad, Brookland, Fort Totten— these are a few of the neighborhoods included in Ward 5, which covers much of northeast DC. There are a lot of contested races for the ward’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions this year, with well over 50 candidates total. We found eight who deserve your vote. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro on message
New on the WMATA Board; Red rapid repairs; Metro’s empty chair; Cemetery land swap; Prince George’s future; OurRFP in Ivy City; The lead feet of Metrobus; Promises on the Old Post Office; Arlington on the ped beat; And…. Keep reading…