Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
What’s next White Flint
Lord and Taylor won its lawsuit in its dispute over the White Flint mall. White Flint lost customers to better malls and online shopping. The ruling may make it more difficult to redevelop the site into a town center. (Post)
Ivy City changes
Ivy City is emerging from a rough past thanks to new investments and developments in the old industrial parts of the neighborhood. The residents also successfully protested the District’s plans for bus parking in the neighborhood. (Post)
O Street Green
O Street between 1st and 3rd Streets NW in DC was a closed off street for 40 years. Now it is reopened and considered a green street for its green infrastructure to capture stormwater. (DCist)
Enough is enough
Virginia and Maryland Senators released a joint statement expressing outrage towards WMATA for the negligence that led to the recent derailment. (Post)
Go big or go home
Looking for parking in Bethesda? A new downtown parking garage is mostly empty. The county built it for parking demand 10 or 20 years from now thinking the Purple Line will attract more drivers. (WTOP, Brett Young)
Getting there
Alexandria released a report that outlines the progress it has made in improving its bike infrastructure and programming. There has been some success but much work remains to be done. (TheWashCycle)
Bucks win
Hedge fund owners got Democrats and Republicans to throw hundreds of millions of dollars toward their own personal profit when they threatened to move the basketball team out of Milwaukee. Could that happen with our football team? (NYT)
Housing on HBO
David Simon, the guy who made The Wire, debuted a new show about desegregating housing in Yonkers. In the 1980s the city had to implement a judge’s order to build affordable housing in white areas of the city. (Slate)