Capital Riverfront - Update on 11th St bridge [Barry Farm Remixed]
Near Southeast - The bill for 225 Virginia Ave? $400 M. [JDLand]
Columbia Heights - Abandoned house watch on the boarded up property at 1334 Irving street. [New Columbia Heights]
Anacostia - Could a new full service restaurant be coming to the neighborhood in an old building on Good Hope Rd? [Congress Heights on the Rise]
Gallery Place - Don’t tell the area around Verizon Center that billboards aren’t allowed in DC, new plans for five story 8 feet wide electronic billboards understandably have some opposition. [PQLiving]
Golden Triangle - Judging the IMF Building at 1924 Pennsylvania Ave in all its glassy glory! All we have to say is… it has a water wall! [PoP]
Southwest - A look inside and outside the new Waterfront development including new ANC meeting space and of course the metro plaza. [SWDC Blog]
Southwest - Construction of the new Arena Stage roof is finishing up as they install the outer covering of the soffit. [SWDC Blog]
Anacostia - The interesting new project by architects Howeler + Yoon has been under construction since November and is now almost topped off, we can’t wait to see how it ends up looking! [And Now Anacostia]
LeDroit - Full funding has been restored to the LeDroit Park restoration which includes a playground, dog park, and new pavilion. [Left for LeDroit]
Southwest - The Corcoran Museum has finally found a way to develop the Randall School, but they won’t be the ones to occupy the new development (pictured below) once it’s completed. [SWDC Blog]
Logan Circle - A scourge of graffiti has popped up around the neighborhood on storefronts, alleyways, and homes! [14th and You]
Golden Triangle - The DC region was awarded a Tiger Grant this past week, but one project left noticeably unfunded was the K Street Transitway. [Beyond DC]
River East - A little video on the $300 million dollar project to replace the 11th street bridge, pictured below. [Barry Farm(Re)mixed]
Columbia Heights - Political heavyweight Jim Graham is up for reelection and real estate developers are apparently being creative with how they make contributions. [WBJ]
Georgetown - The latest snowstorm has required some creative new ways to clear side streets… and it involves bobcats! [GTMetropolitan]
[Photo: MV Jantzen]
Capitol Riverfront - As the Navy Yard plans for expansion, they will have lots of real estate choices given all the new empty office buildings in the neighborhood. [JDLand]
Columbia Heights - A vacant abandoned house has finally been refurbished after years of neglect. [New Columbia Heights]
Dupont - The District plans to put out a request for proposals for the old underground trolley station. One of the ideas (pictured below) for the massive subteranian space is an art gallery. [WPost]
Mt Vernon Triangle - The proposed consolidated condo tax has residents objecting on several fronts. [The Triangle]
Columbia Heights - How do you define a neighborhoods boundaries? Apparently tax districts often times don’t work. [New Columbia Heights]
LeDriot Park - A flash back to the year 1958 at the corner of 9th and U Street (pictured below), things sure have changed. [Left for LeDriot]
[Photo: DDOT]
Mt Vernon Triangle - Construction on the Yale West development (pictured) has resumed after a nine month hiatus. [The Triangle]
Near Southeast - The nine lots along Potomac Avenue, Ninth, and L that went through foreclosure last year are now up for auction. [JDLand]
Southwest - The old Metropolitan Police Department First District headquarters has finally been demolished to start making way for the new Consolidated Forensic Lab that we are so excited about. [Southwest TLQTC]
[Photo: Sean Robertson]
Truxton Circle - Getting to the bottom of the where there actual circle in Truxton Circle is? [Left for Ledroit]
Columbia Heights - Still no progress on getting the Ellwood Tompson’s grocery store open for business. [New Columbia Heights]
Georgetown - The Landshark beer “billboard” is finally coming down thanks to the Historic Preservation Office. [Georgetown Metropolitan]
Truxton Circle circa 1930s
Dupont - At the premiere of the new DC season of MTV’s Real World, the cast offered up their thoughts of the neighborhood. [Borderstan]
Columbia Heights - More tax breaks for neighborhood developers are in the works including the Highland Park building and the Park Place building in Petworth. [New Columbia Heights]
Anacostia - The new 11th Street bridge project is now under way and it looks like though the bike/ped bridge over 295 will be torn down in January, it will be replaced by Memorial Day. [WashCycle]
[Credit: DDOT]
Anacostia - Construction is just about ready to start on the new 11th Street Bridges. Work will include three entirely new spans between the existing ones with completion by 2013. [JDLand]
Penn Quarter - Shoveling snow from the sidewalks in front of your property is legally required (pictured below), however it seems a few of the larger residential buildings didn’t get the memo. [PQLiving]
Columbia Heights - This weeks powdered snow was not the best for building snowmen and snow balls, but some folks managed to build a structurally sound 4 ft tall snow fort over at 13th and Harvard. [New Columbia Heights]
An interesting way to shovel the sidewalk. [Credit: William Couch]
Dupont Circle - The 17th Streetscape project is underway fixing the road surfaces, and bring better lighting and benches. [Borderstand]
Columbia Heights - We can safely say that DCUSA has everything we need with the new Chipotle open for business. [New Columbia Heights]
Mt Vernon Triangle - The City Center development on the site of the old DC Convention center won’t break ground till 2011. We wonder if this mean another year of the popup trapeze school and tennis stadium? [Housing Complex]
[Rendering of CityCenter by Shalom Barnes]
14th Street - The long awaited commercial outlet of Cork Wine Bar has opened its gourmet market in a space at 1805 14th Street. [Borderstan]
Near Southeast - The wooden framing is going up for the last bit of the first phase of the Capital Quarter’s development. [JDLand]
Anacostia - The historic Good Hope Building (one of the areas oldest) is under contract and won’t be demolished as once feared. [And Now, Anacostia]
[Photo: 1357 Good Hope Rd by DG-Rad]
Shaw - One of the first pieces of the new Northwest One project, the Warrenton condos (pictured below), has apparently had issues pinning down their developers office location. [In Shaw]
Southwest - The green roof at Waterfront Station is growing! [SWDC]
MV Triangle - The conversion of the office building at 425 Eye street is getting close to completion and the new glass walls are starting to go up. [The Triangle]
[Rendering: Warrenton Group]
14th Street - The Garden District has filed for Bankrupcy, but it won’t have an effect on the new “Crepes on the Corner” build-out. [14th & You]
Penn Quarter - The Civilian Arts Project finished up their move out of the old Apartment Zero and into new (and much larger) space just up the street at the Warehouse Arts Complex. [PQLiving]
Mt Vernon Triangle - The team behind the new development “Arts at 5th and Eye” (pictured) has been meeting with the Deputy Mayor’s team and is scheduled to appear before the ANC next month. [MVTriangle]
[Rendering: Shalom Baranes]
