Posts tagged Rfk Stadium
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This map shows a very different East Capitol Street
In the 1940s, there was a proposal to make East Capitol Street into a wide, monumental avenue. This map shows what it would look like, and provides some other glimpses into what DC was like at the time. Keep reading…
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A future football stadium may have a moat. Is that a symbol of a sustainable future or an exclusionary past?
We don’t know where a stadium for Washington’s football team will go, but now there’s a design. Bjarke Ingels Group, the architects engaged by Dan Snyder to design a stadium, showed a rendering to 60 Minutes, and it includes a moat. We asked our contributors what they think. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ticket to ride
Jack’s back; Metro opens all doors; Parking tickets tossed; Gondola goals; Soft support for RFK stadium; Tear down this treehouse; Sidewalk savior; Where VA grows; Need more people to eat. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Priorities
Creeping back to normal; New Olympic sport; See something, shovel something; Bikes are not a priority; To the skies; The sharing economy digs out; Where does all the snow go?; Where’s the beef?. Keep reading…
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The feds own RFK. Here’s what they plan to do with it.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about what to do with RFK Stadium and the land around it. One detail that’s largely been left out of the conversation: the federal government owns the entire 190-acre site, and it has already developed and adopted an ambitious plan to fill the site with mixed-use development, recreation, and culture. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s next on I-66?
I-66 plans unveiled; Controlling rent in MoCo; Nope to the NFL; Better bus, no bunching; Another wait on AFRH; EIS-xcellent; Getting started in Arlington; Who takes transit?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Measuring traffic, smarter
Smarter I-66; Make it count; Our streetcar past; Pontificating on travel modes; Still friends; Hail a ride to transit; Sharing comes to Portland; And…. Keep reading…
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Mayor Bowser says she wants a new football stadium at RFK
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she wants to put another football stadium on the site where RFK Stadium currently sits, even though a study to look into other potential future uses of the campus is still incomplete. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How we house
Housing boom; Rent disparity; Commutes between counties; A history of public pools; Buses for the region; The name stays; Football facility fail; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s Olympic bid had some great ideas, and some lame ones
The team of architects and business leaders behind the recent, unsuccessful, and until-now-secret bid for an Olympics in DC revealed some of their ideas last week to Jonathan O’Connell of the Washington Post. The plan has a number of good ideas for DC which are worth implementing even now — and a few that really aren’t. Keep reading…