DC Metrocentric

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]

Penn Quarter - Electric Car Showroom Coming Soon? [PQLiving]

Southeast - Capitol Riverfront Gets New Neighbors. [CP]

MtVernon Triangle - Buddha Bar Buildout Underway! [The Triangle]

[Photo: M.V. Jantzen]

Mt Vernon Triangle -The history of the neighborhood wasn’t always all surface parking lots. An aerial picture from 1949 (pre I-395) shows a tight asphalt-free urban neighborhood. [The Triangle] 

14th Street - The influx of new restaurants to this part of town continues with a Spanish focused spot by the folks from Proof in the old Garden District space (pictured below). [14th & You]

Near Southeast - Plans for the old Washington Star/Post plant at 225 Virginia include a LEED rated renovation and then occupation by various District organizations including the Commission on Arts and Humanities. [JDLand]

[Photo: MV Jantzen]

Mt Vernon Triangle - The lot between the AIPAC building (pictured) and the I-395 air shaft has sat empty for years and now finally there is some action, though unfortunatley it was only to replace the chain link fence with a masonry wall. [The Triangle]

Southwest - Thanks to recent work by Congress, the National Women’s History Museum is one step closer to securing a location right off the National Mall next to the DOE. Now all they have to do is raise the $300 million needed to start construction. [Southwestquadrant]

Columbia Heights - After a short closure for some utility work, the park at 14th and Girard is back open. Luckily this had nothing to do with the past closures for faulty construction. [New Colombia Heights]

[Empty lot to the right, Photo by MV Jantzen]

Southwest - 4th Street at the new Waterfront Station gets it’s first layer of asphalt and may open as early as December. [SWDC Blog]

Anacostia - The new Savoy School building (pictured below) is just about finished up and ready to open. [And Now, Anacostia]

Bloomingdale - The Boxer Girl Mural debate continues. [Bloomingdale for now]

[Savoy School Rendering]

Penn Quarter - The apple store looking building on F Street is getting a new paint job and is about ready to open as a souvenir shop, no word on if they will sell ipods. [PQLiving]

Adams Morgan - All that construction going on at 18th and Columbia Plaza isn’t a new building… but it does have its own facebook page! [PoP]

Mt Vernon Triangle - A model for the huge kite inspired David Black sculpture unveiled and is destined for the corner of 5th and K Street. [The Triangle]

[Credit: David Black via The Triangle]