Posts tagged Student Housing
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Breakfast links: Find the 9/11 memorial; imagine one for climate change
Have you heard of this memorial?; A climate change memorial for DC?; Is the SunTrust plaza “sacred”?; Purple Line appeal begins; Evans says no fare hike; Get your Tubman & Douglass SmarTrips; Loudoun, bike mecca?; What Amtrak will buy with $2.45B; Students versus homeless tenants; And…. Keep reading…
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A Fairfax City community center could become George Mason student housing
A small community center across from George Mason’s Fairfax Campus is up for redevelopment, and Fairfax City is weighing options for what to do with it. One possibility is to make it student housing, a move that could help bring the school and its surrounding community together. Keep reading…
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Interning in DC? Here’s how to find a place to live.
DC’s shortage of affordable housing options touches lots of permanent residents, but summer interns struggle with the problem as well. Below are three ways to find a place to stay when you’re only coming to DC for the semester. Keep reading…
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Will Georgetown’s campus plan collapse the area’s rental market?
In 2012, the Zoning Commission approved Georgetown’s latest campus plan. A central part of the plan is that the school committed to providing 385 new on-campus beds by the fall of 2015, with the long term goal of housing 90% of its undergrads on campus by 2025. With that first deadline rapidly approaching, is the rental market already feeling the pinch of reduced demand? A lot… Keep reading…
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An entire student neighborhood bites the dust in College Park
New investment is pouring into College Park, seeking to turn this town known for undergrads and traffic into an urban hub for all ages. As part of that transformation, the famous Knox Boxes student neighborhood is transforming from the ground up. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stalled
Silver Spring Transit Center in 2014?; Rockville wants more info on BRT; Movies at Navy Yard?; Accessory apartments more accessible; Hoya Saxa in Clarendon?; Baltimore’s approach to vacant property; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Designing future transit
Bethesda Purple Line station designs revealed; WMATA seeks long-term fix for Red Line; Virginia residents must pay online sales tax; Will the private sector sustain DC’s economy?; Virginia is for tourism; Gallaudet experiments with DeafSpace building design; Road rage on the rise; Bi-County fight continues; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drugs and gambling
Pot dispensaries inch forward; National Harbor gambling will rake it in; Council will go with Mendelson; ANC supports Hine; ZC is next; Sharrows point to nowhere; Arlington, Alexandria to join on streetcars; GU students want right to live where they wish; Detroit goes for cheap; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Mixed-use, not sports practices; Food trucks on the Mall?; Creep on the CCT?; Georgetown vacant lot hard to build on; Who hates, who likes Ike’s memorial; Better buses; Manhattan to the limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Pluses and minuses
Meet “Rush Plus”; Less entrance, more closing; No decision on campus plan; No more fund; Cities should pay more?; Super walkability; And…. Keep reading…