Posts about Development
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Afternoon links: Announcements and non-announcements
Metro gets 2nd highest ridership; WMATA doesn’t announce rapes; Trolley tunnel RFP released; East and green?; No minimums in downtown Frederick?; Donuts and death; Some drivers don’t yield even to bunnies. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: In public
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Keep reading…
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Hopkins announces Barnesville West “Science Country” plan
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Johns Hopkins University today unveiled its new growth plan, Barnesville West, also known as “Science Country.” Science Country involves constructing a grid of 2,000 individual buildings of 3-4 stories in height, each containing 50,000 square feet of office or laboratory space. To preserve open space,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Objects in motion
Convention center hotel back on track; Exurbs become “gated ghettos”; Ped hit at Wisconsin and M; Stroll and circulate freely; Blogging transit agencies; Give us our squares; JetBlue really coming to DCA; On politics. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy birthday, but don’t sing
Happy birthday Metro!; High spirits not allowed in the Capitol; Now Dr. Gridlock-Metrocrowd-Busysidewalk?; Fairfax rallying against Connector cuts; DHS needs even more space; 3 Ike towers in Alexandria?; Pike art. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: National trends, local impacts
How is your county doing with the Census?; More development happening in cities; Exurbs on the rebound or a dead cat bounce?; Better cars better, but not salvation; What’s Current; Thanks… I think. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the lines
RI Ave Metro to be connected; Do zig-zags work?; Crash; One step closer to Potomac Yard; Greenbelt Station stationary; Parking lease blocking the gate; People fight infill everywhere; Mode equality = catastrophe?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Real-time news
Mass. bus predictions on the phone or paper; MERV on over there; Bus changes; Cycle confidently; I can’t believe DC won’t give me something; Get off the phone in Maryland; The delicate balance of stormwater; Not the way to build a client base. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Affordable and accessible
We’re really affordable!; Every bus stop is political; PG snow debate neglects pedestrians?; Bloggers for WMATA Board?; GPS making us dumb?; Congress to dig holes, point transit systems into it?; Development dispatches. Keep reading…
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With White Flint, Montgomery gets another Bethesda
The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved the White Flint Sector Plan yesterday, authorizing a new walkable, mixed-use district like Bethesda, Rockville and Silver Spring. Today, the area of Rockville Pike from the White Flint Mall to Randolph Road is an unbroken chain of strip malls and huge parking lots centered on a Metro station. These strip malls serve many of… Keep reading…