Posts tagged Vacant Property
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Breakfast links: Slow beyond the Beltway
Silver Line delayed; PG dodges water crisis; Clarksburg concerns; 2 die on bikes in Maryland; Steal bike, get stung; Forget statehood, DC goes to Maryland; House not keen on autonomy; The unlicensed show monuments; More retailers oppose wage bill; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the horizon
Silver delayed to 2014; Silver surcharge?; Commuter buses escape fee; Storm brewing; Houses without owners; MBT attack was a big group; How the population grows; Hands-free is still distracted. Keep reading…
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Anacostians still waiting for a new day
A recent blitzkrieg of laudatory media reports have focused on Anacostia’s residential market and arts scene. But new home signs dot vacant lots and hang from empty buildings. And store after store continues to close. Along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Historic Anacostia are green signs announcing a “PUBLIC NOTICE OF A ZONING PROPOSAL” that has been… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Caught on tape
Police ticket U turns on Penn; School buildings to charters; Outer Beltway opposition grows; Suburban versus urban poverty; Fragile Northeast corridor; Uber still hates regulations; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let the bikes continue
Army Navy cycle track; Trail trials; Empty warehouse or market?; Police unions differ on cameras; We’re number 4!; The recession halted “job sprawl”; Groceries on the bus?; Don’t panic about Cheh bill; Next stop, extreme wealth. Keep reading…
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Vacancy at the Parkway Guest House abandominium
Perched atop a hill overlooking historic Anacostia, tucked behind a new condominium development is an abandominium from an era the city has left behind and this neighborhood is trying to forget. From the 1960s until the last decade the Parkway Guest House was a gathering spot for drugs, prostitution and all forms of illegality. During the 1990s it essentially became “a… Keep reading…
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Fire deaths in abandominium raise call for action
Two people died in a fire last week in a vacant low-rise apartment building in Fairlawn. Meanwhile, Mayor Gray pledged $100 million towards new affordable housing. The two together present a clarion call for solutions to the housing problems east of the Anacostia River. “Marion Barry told Gray the only way he’s going to get re-elected, if the Feds don’t get him first,… Keep reading…
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Vacant Congress Heights building holds relics of the past
“Look at that thing! That’s an antique!” says William Alston-El as two workers in yellow vests and hard hats emerge from the long-vacant Wilson Courts in Congress Heights. The men carry an aged band saw. “Man, I’ve been working with tools my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like that,” Alston-El observes with reverence as we angle… Keep reading…
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Busboys & Poets not coming to Anacostia quite yet
Restaurateur Andy Shallal will not be bringing his Busboys & Poets franchise to Anacostia quite yet. Last night, Stan Voudrie, the landlord of the shuttered Uniontown Bar & Grill, told the Historic Anacostia Block Association he is considering 5 bids. Busboys “is not one of them.” Voudrie said he has shown the space to a number of experienced and… Keep reading…
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Development of Anacostia’s Big K site is no laughing matter
Today, we have 2 articles on the Big K site in Historic Anacostia. Also see Chris Dickersin-Prokopp’s piece. “That big bad wolf hasn’t come along and blown the houses down,” Rev. Oliver “OJ” Johnson says of the 3 homes on the “Big K” lot in Historic Anacostia. “And now the city clearly doesn’t know what to do.”… Keep reading…