Posts about Development
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Breakfast links: On to IZ
Affordable housing in the zone; Fewer parking spots near Silver; Take note, WMATA; Bikeshare for Falls Church; Housing hot in Arlington; Red light for Red Line; Smaller spots and remote lots; And…. Keep reading…
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Building of the Week: Downtown’s Woodward & Lothrop building
Located 11th Street NW between G and F Streets, DC’s Woodward and Lothrop building is iconic: it appears in books and as a case study for developers, and we’ve even featured it ourselves (twice!). But while most of the attention focuses on the famous department store that lived in it, the building itself tells the story of how fast fashion eclipsed department store retail in the United… Keep reading…
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DC’s 43,766 acres: 25% “roads,” 2% high-rises
The District of Columbia spans over 68 square miles. About half its land area goes to buildings, 20% is open space, and over a quarter is “road infrastructure.” Among residential land, half is single family detached houses while high-rise apartments occupy less than 2% of DC’s total. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hottest day of the year
Record-setting heat; Too hot for fast trains; Can’t ban RPP?; New office, historic buildings; More red signal fallout; Lights out, Metro still running; NYC’s Metro-style shutdown; Lightning damage on the L. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Yuuuge wall
“Trump’s [Purple] wall”; Make buses great again; SafeTrack’s challenge; When Metro was cool; Bethesdensity; Protesting a bad offer; Solution for vacant office space?; Uneven job growth; And…. Keep reading…
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Not everyone agrees on where DC’s Chinatown is
While DC’s Chinatown officially spans roughly two square blocks in the city’s central downtown area, a number of long-time residents have different ideas of the neighborhood’s boundaries. This map shows how “Chinatown” means different things to different people. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build that housing
Permit effects on housing; H Street’s newest connection; Mixed income with a community pool; Development east of the Anacostia; Maryland Ave NE road diet; Fight over Metro firing; Uber surges and SafeTrack; Open gangways for NYC’s subway. Keep reading…
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DC makes some of its affordable housing serve less wealthy residents (but not the poorest)
DC requires new apartment and condo buildings to include a number of affordable housing units, in a program called Inclusionary Zoning. Wednesday night, DC’s Zoning Commission voted to make Inclusionary Zoning serve the group of residents who most need the housing this program can provide. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Headlines, bread-lines blow my mind
Rent is outpacing income; Rent is lower than SF, NY; “Sue the suburbs” gets a win; New wmata.com; “Privatize” Metro?; Bidding for paratransit; Car2go, the car killer; Meals on wheels; Automation and safety. Keep reading…
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What’s wrong with this map of DC’s social services?
This map shows where DC’s halfway houses, drug treatment centers, and mental health facilities are. What’s wrong with this picture? Keep reading…