Image by Kevin Spacey.

Spacey takes CaBi

Kevin Spacey visited the White House for a tour, and rode Capital Bikeshare. Did he use the secret White House CaBi station? If only he’d asked President Obama to get the Park Service to put stations on the Mall. (DCist)  

Gentrification reduces displacement?

Most people think gentrification and displacement are synonymous (we don’t). A new study says otherwise; gentrified neighborhoods it studied became more attractive to educated African-Americans, making the neighborhood more enduringly diverse instead of less. (Time, Eric Fidler)  

Ward 8 isn’t the most jobless

Ward 8 has the highest unemployment rate in DC, right? Or even the highest in the US? Actually, no. (DCFPI)  

Ervin supports the bag fee

Montgomery Council President Valerie Ervin has taken a stand on the 5¢ bag fee proposal for the county: she’s for it. (Post)  

CityCenterNowHappening

CityCenterDC broke ground yesterday, 8 years after being first proposed. It will have retail, a park, affordable housing, unaffordable housing, and reconnect 10th Street. It will also have a nice pedestrian alley through the center, somewhat like Bethesda Lane with “specialty retail.” There’s a million dollars a year set aside for special events. (DCist, Housing Complex)  

We have a lot of bike commuters

People bike commute in the DC area twice as much as the average among large cities. Capital Business profiles one such commuter and gives a few tips courtesy of WABA.  

A little bit of tolerance

Fairfax County is working to design some leeway in its “zero tolerance” policy which, among other things, suspended a teen for taking her prescription medication. (Post)  

No tolerance for ads

The Park Service has ordered the removal of the giant LOVE sign in Dupont Circle, since it violates their rules against advertising. They say the organization misrepresented themselves as being about free speech instead of working for Virginia’s department of tourism. (Housing Complex)  

And…

A good way to handle the partly below-ground floor of a condo building: bike room (Housing Complex) … Is the media backlash against bikes due to auto industry ad spending? (Streetsblog) … Another Gray hire quits amid controversy. (Post)