Posts tagged Parks
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Arlington has a great new park, and it was easy to build
What if you turned parking space in your neighborhood into the area’s newest park? Staff members from a handful of Arlington County agencies recently did just that, creating a new “pop-up plaza” near Courthouse Plaza. It only took paint, plantings, outdoor furniture, and two days of work. 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: From a squad car to the gridiron
Goodbye, Chief; Changes to SafeTrack plans; No shelter (end) in sight; Home values are on the up; Thank this man for our parks; Shipping the freight fantastic; Enraged by E. coli; New leader in Fairfax; No power on L Street; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Gymnastics, diving, and urban planning?
Planning’s Olympic moment; Not the usual Fairfax news; Orange you going to resign; Blind referee’s Purple call; Streetcar’s expectations exceeded; Nursing home sale fallout; The price of walkability; Art before development; Help for MoCo parents; Pokémon’s location bias; Boon for boomer landlords. Keep reading…
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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: Yuuuge wall
“Trump’s [Purple] wall”; Make buses great again; SafeTrack’s challenge; When Metro was cool; Bethesdensity; Protesting a bad offer; Solution for vacant office space?; Uneven job growth; And…. 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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The peculiar fight over density at the Bethesda Metro
Clark Enterprises, a company that formerly owned the biggest road construction contractor in Montgomery County, is fighting against a new building planned atop the Bethesda Metro station. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring could get a big, new, temporary park
Downtown Silver Spring could get a big new park as part of a massive redevelopment of the Blairs, an apartment complex across the street from the Metro. The park will be temporary, but eventually several larger parks will take its place. 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…