Posts tagged Tenleytown
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Explore Tenleytown’s successes, failures, and futures
Ward 3 has seen a lot of changes in the last few years and faces exciting opportunities for urbanization, particularly DC’s highest neighborhood. Next Saturday, learn about Tenleytown’s future with Ward3Vision and the Coalition for Smarter Growth. At the beginning of 2003, Tenleytown’s retail strip was in its twentieth year of decline, with stores closing… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New ways to live and move
Uber takes a taxi; Babe’s gets the nod; Bike to Obama; A national VMT tax?; Call them the Washington Deforesters; Will school closings save money?; An affordable little neighborhood; “Embarrassing” anti-dooring law?; And…. Keep reading…
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Every building doesn’t need to be the same
Bruce DePuyt and I talked Tuesday about the Babe’s project, a planned 55-65-unit apartment building one block from Tenleytown Metro which will not have underground parking and whose residents will not be able to get resident parking stickers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Grocery shopping
Nobody bikes for groceries?; No more Yes; Reduce car spaces, add bike spaces; Safety before ATC; More transit, fewer cars; No damage to Metro except pocketbook; Obama on transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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“Bravo” to parking-free development in Tenleytown
After more than 3 years of meetings, discussions, proposals and counter-proposals, ANC 3E Thursday night unanimously supported a controversial proposal to build a new residential building with ground-floor retail on a corner near the Tenleytown Metro station. My house is located on the same block as this site, the old Babe’s Billiards at the northwest corner of Wisconsin… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New plans for old places
St. E’s plans unveiled; Plans for Walter Reed; See 4 taxi color choices soon; Don’t always stop for cyclists?; Speak up; Shuttle around track work; Yankee stadium parking is a bust; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Contested transportation
GMU pushes sprawl some more; ANC agrees to no parking; Arlington candidates cold on streetcar; Graham vs. WMATA ethics; Got 11 cars?; TOD underway, awaits transit; Expanded transfers expands bus service; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Playoffs?
Playoff costs and benefits; Don’t need parking; Driver hits kids on Walk to School Day; Don’t walk, says LeMunyon; Low income and bikeshare; Housing list may close; Study sees red; And…. Keep reading…
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A simpler design will strengthen the Bond at Tenley
A building proposed for Tenleytown deserves praise for putting density in the right spot, but its design is too fractured to contribute to the character of Tenleytown. Although the building fills the majority of the lot and is lined with retail, it is neither an interesting work of architecture nor a quiet background building. Keep reading…
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Tenleytown Safeway project deserves Ward 3’s support
Responding to requests from neighbors, Safeway created an excellent mixed-use proposal to redevelop its Tenleytown store that will reinvigorate its stretch of Wisconsin Avenue. They deserve kudos from residents, not the litany of complaints the project team got at a recent ANC meeting. In 2009, Safeway announced plans to expand this aging store. Ward3Vision, a group of residents… Keep reading…