Breakfast links: Snow creates multiple transportation challenges across Greater Washington
Winter storm grounds airlines, reduces bus service, closes GW Parkway
The winter storm that started on Sunday resulted in a ground stop of planes at Washington National Airport on Monday night with some passengers stranded on the tarmac for hours, as well as closures of Rock Creek Parkway and the GW Parkway, with a series of crashes reported across the region. While Metrorail is running normally as of Tuesday morning, Metrobuses are on a Severe Snow Plan, only running 40 main routes and serving main thoroughfares. (Alanea Cremen / WUSA9, 7News Staff / WJLA, Adam Tuss / NBC 4 Washington)
14 DC neighborhoods have median home prices over $1 million
The average home price is over $1 million in 14 neighborhoods in DC, a reduction from 18 neighborhoods in 2022. The decline comes not from a reduction in home prices in the DC area so much as differences in the size of the homes that were sold last year. This year all the neighborhoods meeting this milestone were in northwest DC, although Capitol Hill and Bloomingdale came close. (Urban Turf)
2,000-acre Prince William data center project now in court
Residents who oppose the huge new data center that has been approved in Prince William County have filed suit to block the project, alleging that several steps in the process were inadequate, not completed, or not completed appropriately. Both the county and the companies are named in the lawsuit. If built, the data center will be one of the largest in the world at over 2,000 acres. (Margaret Barthel / DCist)
One of two remaining restaurants at Baltimore’s Harborplace is suing owners
Hooters, which has survived multiple changes in ownership at Baltimore’s Harborplace, is suing the current and recent past owners for damages, after a break-in in their restaurant and with ongoing poor maintenance of the pavilions. Harborplace is slated for redevelopment. (This article is behind a paywall). (Giacomo Bologna / Baltimore Banner)
Baltimore neighborhoods use murals to tell their stories
In four predominantly Black Baltimore neighborhoods, an initiative has worked with community organizations to paint large murals on buildings that capture and draw attention to the history and culture of neighborhoods that often feel overlooked. (This article is behind a paywall). (Sanya Kamidi / Baltimore Sun)
Developers seek city approval to build bigger around Eisenhower Avenue Metro station
Developers Paradigm and Hoffman are set to ask Alexandria’s Carlyle Area Plan Review Board to allow taller buildings on land they each own and separately plan to develop adjacent to the Eisenhower Avenue Metro station. The plan goes up for review at the next Carlyle Design Review Board meeting on January 18. (This story is behind a paywall.) (Dan Brendel / Business Journal)
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