Posts tagged Southwest Waterfront
-
When DC’s fish market comes ashore, it will re-create a historic food destination
The Maine Avenue Fish Market on the Southwest Waterfront, the oldest open-air seafood marketplace in America, was exiled offshore in 1960. There are now plans underway to expand it back onto land and expand its offerings beyond just seafood. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Finding fixes
Faulty systems; If you build it; Ch-ch-ch-changes; Pay your fares; Like a tank; You complete me; Paved paradise; No fracking… yet. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Tax deals
Save the trust fund; Tax stadiums; Black History and urban planning; Homeowners demand help; Fairfax cold to charter plan; High driving; Intersection of doom; Portland and DC changing; And…. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Endangered species
Desperately seeking tiny shrimp; Race to replace Bowser; Preservation ethics; Federal workers feel transit pinch; More crosswalks, more gridlock?; Housing homeless vets; Light rail in Research Triangle; And…. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: More places to bike
Klingle getting built; CaBi expanding in Arlington; Shovel, Montgomery; Will the stadium community benefit?; Belvoir boom burgeons; Abandoned homes to affordable housing; Transportation answers; And…. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Shoulder your bike
Count those bikes!; Buses on the shoulder; Channel your bike; Bike racks for Bike Rack; Church fight goes another round; Easy as VRE; And…. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Changes in the neighborhood
To pop or not to pop; Navy Yard a hit; Play place DC; Benefits for Buzzard Point; Redeveloping Grimke; Lake of debate; Dining outside gets easier in DC; And…. Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Bye, FBI
Down to three for the FBI; Gun ruling stayed; White Oak plan approved; Silver Line anticipation; Projects that didn’t make it; Ducking debate; Benches for Ballston; And…. Keep reading…
-
Events roundup: Silver Line opens, Rapid Transit happy hour, central public spaces, and more
Years of anticipation have led up to this weekend: The Silver Line will officially open to passenger service. Don’t miss a ride on the first train! On Wednesday, drink to rapid transit in Montgomery County or discuss Pennsylvania Avenue or Arlington’s Courthouse Square. And at long last… it’s here!: The first Silver Line train taking passengers on… Keep reading…
-
A 12-block “shared space” street will soon line the Southwest Waterfront
“Shared space” is the idea that some streets can work better when, instead of using curbs and traffic signals to separate users, pedestrians get priority using subtle but effective visual cues. Washington will soon have a prime example in Wharf Street SW, part of the Wharf development on the Southwest Waterfront. Keep reading…