Posts tagged Park View
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Events: Eastern Market and Hyattsville tours and a chat with Maryland Delegates
Walking tours are one of the best ways to get the inside-scoop on a neighborhood. This fall, join the Coalition for Smarter Growth for their Walking Tours & Forums Series to get a behind-the-scenes take on the good and bad of neighborhood development and change from CSG staff, elected officials, community members and advocates, developers, and subject-matter experts. And, make sure to check out these other great events happening this week! Keep reading…
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Is new housing, most of it for low-income residents, worth giving up an acre of park space?
DC has plans to turn half of a park on Georgia Avenue into an apartment complex that will largely be affordable housing, much of which will replace a nearby public housing project that’s in disrepair. Many residents support the plan, but some are opposed, with reasons ranging from not wanting to lose any park space to wanting the building to be shorter. Keep reading…
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A new bikeshare station could be a side benefit to this housing redevelopment
Plans to redevelop Park Morton, a public housing development in Park View just south of Petworth, are taking shape. Aside from adding housing options to the area for both low and middle-income residents, the project could be a chance to expand Capital Bikeshare in a place where demand for the service often outpaces supply. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get with the plan
SafeTrack 2.0; Make way for the bus lane; Enough housing?; New Communities success; McMillan Park’s new park; Express extending; Toe tapping for affordable housing. Keep reading…
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Where DC used to bar black people from living
One of many pieces of America’s shameful racial past was when racial covenants forbade people in certain areas from selling their houses to an African-American family. DC had these in several neighborhoods, particularly Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, Petworth, Park View, and Bloomingdale. Keep reading…
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The first two efforts to turn Petworth’s Hebrew Home into housing failed. Will the third time be different?
Just a few blocks from the Petworth Metro, a District-owned apartment that most call the Hebrew Home has been vacant since 2009, and DC is asking for resident input on its latest effort to redevelop the land (the first two fell through). The end result could be 200 new units of mixed-income housing, along with retail and park space. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing for the holidays
From church to housing; Parks and housing; Pop-back problems; Fairfax plans ahead; WMATA audit complete; WMATA’s firefighters; Officers needed; MD eyes biz tax relief; Change MD’s state song. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snowmagaindon
Another winter storm is here; Just don’t call it “Silicon _____”; But the Post won’t be a part; Re-timing DC’s traffic lights; How can we get to “Vision Zero”?; The many causes of crime; De Blasio pushes for affordable housing; Fewer urban highways?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What does Petworth need?
Bus lanes aren’t easy; Build your own Circulator; The future of DC retail; Creepy condo; College Park bikeshare delayed; Blades of steel; Black soot; Greenbelt gardens; And…. Keep reading…
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Park View community battles over preserving church
The latest historic preservation fight is in the Park View neighborhood, where a newer resident wants to landmark a church on Georgia Avenue, but the church’s leaders and many longtime residents oppose the idea. Kent Boese, librarian, ANC commissioner, Park View history expert, and former contributor to Greater Greater Washington nominated the Fishermen of Men Church… Keep reading…