Posts tagged Nps
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Breakfast links: Sunday service for the streetcar
More streetcars, and Sundays too!; Construction contract triggers resignations; Families fight to stay in Brookland; Metro promises better track inspection; The forgotten national parks; High-priced homes; MoCo wrestles with Airbnb rentals; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Monumental takes on our monuments
Not your father’s Mall; Confederate memorials hostile or history?; Washington Monument still shook up; New chief, familiar face; Silver Spring is for artists; Uber raises prices; Buzz for stadium; More housing or fewer jobs?. Keep reading…
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This DC park is pretty much the definition of desolate. How can the National Park Service change that?
Though it’s only a few blocks south and west from the epicenter of new restaurants and high rise apartments in neighboring Navy Yard, Buzzard Point has largely gone undeveloped. That’s going to change soon, including at Buzzard Point Park, where the National Park Service (NPS) is asking the public for its ideas on how to best use the space. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deadly fire in Silver Spring
Silver Spring up in flames; Bike lanes? ANC says no thanks; How to make office parks work; Purple still pushing along; Columbia Heights on crime; Another MetroAccess assault; No PAC bump; Can’t contain shipping container homes; And…. Keep reading…
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An 1886 plan would have built atop Rock Creek
An 1886 Washington Post article outlines a plan to put Rock Creek in a tunnel from about M Street to just north of R Street, fill in the ravine, and create city blocks between Georgetown and Dupont. Proponents estimated it would create 50 “squares” (generally city blocks) of space, for a cost of about $600,000 to $650,000, or about $15-16 million in today’s dollars. By… 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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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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Near National airport, the Mount Vernon Trail is new again
A number of changes to the Mount Vernon Trail near Reagan National airport just wrapped up. The National Park Service installed a new railing where the trail comes close to the parkway as well as a much-needed water fountain, and removed a sharp turn from the trail. Keep reading…
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Four wild ideas for memorials in DC
What if we re-thought how we commemorate important people and events? A federal competition is asking that question, and four finalists will now create memorials that answer it. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Be safe or shut down
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