Columbia Heights - Obama runs into a little trouble at the new DCUSA Washington Sports Club. [NewColumbiaHeights]
Penn Quarter - Will the Penn Quarter finally get a grocery store? Balducci may be the answer to residents dreams! [PennQLiving]
Shaw - Developer finally selected for the Florida Ave parcel to build 104 apartments as well as some ground-floor retail and arts space. [RenewShaw]
Ever wondered if that house next door is a Federal or a Colonial? Well now you will never have to wonder again. [AsktheArchitect]
Thomas Circle gets a new cooking school called CulinAerie. [DCist]
Demolition and facade preservation on Anacostia Square. There’s nothing like heavy machinery bringing down an old building! [AnacostiaNow]
Transportation Planning Board outlines new spending and zoning for the next six years, including the Great Streets and the Anacostia River Walk. [BeyondDC]
Northeast - Looking for Something to do with Dad today… how about Artomatic? Today’s the last day of the month long exhibit. [Artomatic]
Southeast - Freelon Group Architects have updated their renderings of the new Anacostia Library and the new design features a giant “A” as part of the facade. This thing is starting to look very iconic. [AnacostiaNow]
Northwest - The District experienced some major power problems on Friday affecting everything from the Metro to street lights and we hear that some residents are still experiencing issues. [InShaw]
Southwest - The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s building at 7th and D is up for landmark status. We’re not so sure this is the type of Extreme Brutalism Architecture that the city needs to be preserving, but we have always liked the Martha Schwartz designed alien saucers up front. [GGreaterWashington]
Bethesda - Score one for the developer in a controversial proposal for a new building above the Bethesda Metro Station. [Meridian Group]
Trinidad Ledriot Park - Zoning hearing for the new Gateway Market Residences, a proposed PUD at 4th and Florida has some questionable inward facing retail. [Frozen Tropics]
Anacostia - The old Anacostia Library comes down to make way for the amazing new design (pictured below)! [Anacostia Now]
Anacostia - Getting the facts straight on the stadium plans for Poplar Point, apparently the Post didn’t get all the facts right. [Anacostia Now]
Columbia Heights - New restaurant Meridian Pint and architecture firm 3DG will occupy the redeveloped old Bi-Right building across from DCMetrocentric favorite restaurant Red Rock. [New Columbia Heights]
Silver Spring - The old Flower Theater is no longer being used as a church and is back on the market, perhaps it could be used as an AFI annex… one can always dream right? [Silver Spring Singular]
Near Southeast - The first phase of the waterfront park at The Yards was approved by the zoning commission and may be open by next summer. [JDLand]
Monument Realty is not for sale… no really we promise! [WBJ]
Group seeks to restore the World War I Memorial. [NBC]
Park Place tops out and Georgia Commons gets green light. [DCBiz]
Dupont - The stately old Victorian row house that used to be the Childe Harold now has a “Darling” new restaurant. [Daily Candy]
Shaw - Best use of a corner lot we have seen all year, the mixture of classic brick and modern features is striking. [Prince of Petworth]
Penn Quarter - Extremely good roundup of the future of downtown’s Homeless situation, including the futures of the Franklin School, Gales School, and the Tubman Shelter. [PennQLiving]
H Street - Ice Cream Shop and Latin-African Fusion restaurant coming to the 1300 block of H street. Just don’t ask us what type of food they will be serving, we will leave that to the comments section over at FT. [Frozen Tropics]
Penn Quarter - Nando’s Restaurant has got a liquor license permit up. However the hearing isn’t till July and the interior is still unfinished drywall and exposed brick, so the wait continues. For some reason whenever we see the sign for Nando’s it makes us think of a Nintendo game, maybe it’s the red font color or the crazy cartoon chicken! [PennQuarterLiving]
Shaw - Sign a petition to help keep the City Market at O project moving forward. Whether or not you like the area’s Giant, we say variety is the spice of life, plus as we have said in the past, that building is just too cool looking to let sit around empty for much longer. [LifeinMVS]
Anacostia - Is there any specific reason to carpet exterior stairs, or is it just for looks? (trying not to judge…). Just be happy they chose green, we’ve seen those outdoor carpets in other colors too. Believe us, red carpets only look good in Hollywood! [AnacostiaNow]
Bloomingdale - Rowhomes on North Captitol Street and Hanover Place NW are slated to be demolished. These buildings don’t appear to be in any worse shape than a lot of other vacant row-houses in the city… unfortunately when it gets to this stage, there isn’t much that can be done. [BloomingdaleForNow]
H Street - Sticky Rice opening soon on H street. Who would have thought that mixing All American tater tots with a full sushi bar… would work? Well the nice looking outdoor seating sure won’t hurt! [FrozenTropics]
Penn Quarter - Madame Tussauds finally lowers ticket prices. Only tourists go to this place right? [WhyGentrify]
Anacostia - Urban decay’s finer side, there’s a certain character and intricate story in urban decay. It’s deciding what should be preserved that’s the hard part. [AnacostiaNow]
Silver Spring - America’s stupidest bike lane is right in our own backyard. It’s 20 feet to nowhere, the wrong way, down a one way street… how long before you think they fix it? [GreaterGreatWashington]
Blogs in the Hood - It’s a beautiful day in the bloggerhood when potential D.C. homeowners or renters can scour the Internet to find answers to almost any question they might have about their future digs. Don’t know how we forgot to mention this, but the Express filed a great report on neighborhood blogs, and they quoted DCMetrocentric a bunch of time in the article too! Who knew people loved Pricechecker so much? [Washington Post Express]
Silver Spring - Folks from Tennessee seem to love Silver Spring and they want Nashville to emulate the Downtown? [Silver Spring Scene]
Columbia Heights - The Meridian Hill Park is still under construction… after only five years of work! [Columbia Heights News]
Bloomingdale- Could speed bumps be coming soon to the neighborhood? Yes but it looks like DDOT half-assed it! [bloomingdale for now]
Logan Circle- The saga of the 14th Street Transportation and Streetscape Study continued with an open house this week. [Logan Circle News]
Giants on Wisconsin - The long-awaited Giant grocery store and surrounding redevelopment, expected to bring life back to its location on Wisconsin Avenue near the National Cathedral, is a bit closer to becoming reality. DCMud reports on the project which aims to make the stretch more pedestrian friendly and we think it’s about time they replace the G.C. Murphy Co which has been vacant for years! [DCMUD]
Art Deco Teeter - The Harris Teeter in Adams Morgan celebrated its grand opening with a star studded (for DC) ribbon cutting ceremony for the store. The project which has been a long time coming was welcomed to the neighborhood by the Mayor as well as Ward 1 Council members. Do you think they will let us roller-skate down the aisles for old times sake? [DCist]
The Teeter Effect - I don’t know if any of these Tajma Teeters will ever be a routine grocery stop for me, but it’s exciting to have them in the city, and hopefully they will inspire other grocers (Safeway and Giant) to take a hard look at how they do business. With new Teeters coming to NoMa and Capitol Hill, it is going to be harder and harder to ignore (and avoid) the fact that they have the best salad bar… and pretty good soup too! [RenewShaw]
[Rendering: Street Works]
H Street - “We can get a look at some plans for parking that will certainly not be coming soon to H” [FrozenTropics]
Penn Quarter - “It isn’t the Pont Neuf Wrapped nor is it a Wrapped Reichstag but this shrouded incarnation of 1199 F Street sure makes us think Christo and Jean Claude were hanging with the construction crew” [PennQuarterLiving]
Mt Vernon Square - ”I’m going to say the Downtown has been renewed. It looks lovely. I really like it as a place to work, as I have several choices in how to waste my lunch hour” [InShaw]
Columbia Heights - “Just when people thought the Target in Columbia Heights had everything, there’s talk of it getting even more” [DCist]
Brookland - “You will see visions of open plazas, farmers markets, connectivity from Michigan Ave to 10th Street, new residential development and deck parking. It’s a grand vision of what the metro area of Brookland could become” [StopBlogandRoll]
[Flickr Photo: Grundlepuck]
Columbia Heights - DC USA wasn’t always Best Buy’s and Target’s, back in 1910 it looked pretty nice! [PrinceofPetworth]
Bloomingdale - Yahoo finally plays catchup with google and starts mapping our cities neighborhoods! [BloomingdaleForNow]
National Mall - The Newsuem’s now open, all 250,000 sq-ft is ready for you to explore for only $20 bucks a day. [PennQuarterLiving]
[Flickr Photo: Rockcreek]
