Posts about Development
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Breakfast links: Newer, faster, fairer, calmer
New New Carrollton; High-speed VRE; Now a fairer land for peds; Lawyers calmer, slimmer in Reston; Bixi in Boston; Not a free parking space; Strike! BART to shut down Monday; Amtrak ridership off highs. Keep reading…
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Now and Future: Results Gym
The owner of the building at 1612 U Street, NW, which currently houses Results Gym, is planning a modern addition to fill in a gap in the existing streetwall, accommodate more workout space, and make room for a rooftop pool on the old building. To respect the historic brick side facade of the building, the addition will use an all-glass front that keeps the old wall visible from the street. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Forgiven
Metro news; Forgiving vs. self-explaining roads; Manhattan’s “vertical cul-de-sac”; Develop here, not there; Leventhal and Knapp’s own windshield perspective; More progress at 15th and W. Keep reading…
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What could fix Mount Pleasant’s commercial street?
The Urban Land Institute’s Washington chapter took a look at Mount Pleasant Street, a neighborhood commercial corridor that’s suffered more than its share of empty storefronts and bad turns of events. ULI recommended better connectivity to Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan, bike lanes, improving Lamont Park, and occasional weekend street closures among other… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mean streets of Maryland
Cyclist dies at spot slated to become more auto-centric; That’s not all; Behave yourselves!; Watering trees by bike; Amtrak on Google Transit too; Road connectivity dialogue proceeding over DMPED’s objections; Cheh, Graham, Wells safe; Mendelson, Fenty maybe not. Keep reading…
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“No more cars” vs. “not more cars”
Advocates for more walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented places often face criticism that we “hate cars.” Gary Imhoff assumes that “nothing makes [me] angrier than automobiles.” And on yesterday’s thread about “green” companies giving away gas and parking, Fritz wrote, “The majority of residents of the DC Metro Area… Keep reading…
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Community revitalization must start with persisently poor neighborhoods
The economic and social deterioration of urban neighborhoods over the last several decades has been of particular interest to researchers, politicians, and community activists because of the positive and negative effects of neighborhood conditions on individual outcomes. According to a new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the level of poverty in a neighborhood is the strongest… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Switch
Try solar?; Don’t dump Zipcar yet; We’re impressive; Win free transit!; City of College Parking; Reading about Moses; Smarter rankings; Recession’s effects. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where the rubber meets the road
Busing around; U-may have choice in car sharing; Hipster obsession, suburban stereotypes block Post from actual trends; On planning in the east; Two bicycle hit-and-runs; No rubber trolley for Herndon; Texting getting peak attention; And…. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s totally missing the (train) boat
One of the diagrams Metro created for the bicycle and pedestrian study shows the anticipated change in residential or employment density from 2005 to 2030 across the system. The most visually evident conclusion: Prince George’s County is completely failing to take advantage of its existing Metro infrastructure. Keep reading…