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Just weeks ago, demolition began at the Sursum Corda Housing Cooperative, a 148-townhouse lower-income community in DC. Now, UrbanTurf can provide a first look at the redevelopment plans for the site.

As UrbanTurf reported earlier this year, the DC area is facing a housing shortage that will necessitate production of over 25,000 additional housing units annually. Now, it is about to get harder to build multi-family properties in some…

Early one evening in October, Rebecca Levine, a 27-year-old law student, was headed down the escalator at the Gallery Place Metro station when she noticed that a man riding ahead of her kept turning around to look at her.

WASHINGTON — Streetlights can make streets and alleys safe but, for some D.C. residents, some new bright lights are also keeping them up at night.

The street outside NASA headquarters could soon be named for the pioneering black women scientists depicted in the film "Hidden Figures."

A D.C. man once wrongfully incarcerated for murder has been awarded a scholarship to the prestigious University of Oxford in England.

Within a matter of weeks, the D.C. Council will likely approve legislation tasking the DC Office on Aging (DCOA) with creating and implementing a decadelong strategy to assess and improve various aspects of the District senior living…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. man has agreed to settle a lawsuit against a Metropolitan Police Department officer over an unconstitutional and “exceedingly invasive” anal search during a stop-and-frisk incident for an undisclosed amount,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The District could become the second city in the U.S. to ban conversion therapy for some individuals over the age of 18 if a bill passed by the city council Tuesday night receives approval from the mayor and Congress.

A D.C. man who says he was intrusively patted down by a police officer last year has settled his lawsuit against the officer for an undisclosed amount of money, the ACLU of D.C. announced on Thursday. The city admitted no wrongdoing in the…

Genet Amare, an official with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in Superior Court that -- if its allegations are proved -- gives a rare window on a D.C agency’s disdainful treatment of…

George Washington University Hospital said that it “cannot and will not be involved” in a deal with D.C. to operate a planned new Southeast D.C. hospital unless D.C. Council removes two amendments from proposed legislation that would…

After over a decade on the District's roster of parcels ripe for development, we are finally getting a look at what could potentially be constructed at 2 Patterson Street NE (map).

There’s something new on Seventh Street NW this week, and it’s not just the line outside the Christmas bar. Look down: The sidewalk bears a few plaques that honor musicians in the Howard Theatre Walk of Fame.

The much-ballyhooed Upshur Street has seen some surprising headlines in recent weeks: closings, rather than openings.

One way or another, D.C. gas station owners should soon be able to petition the city to redevelop their properties — an option unavailable to them for the last dozen years.

George Washington University Hospital—the Universal Healthcare Services-owned, 370-bed facility in Foggy Bottom—is really super committed to D.C.'s healthcare.

At the corner of 15th Street and Irving Street Northwest on a cold November morning, a man stands by a cart laden with granola bars, fruit, bottles of water and books. As people hurry by on their morning commute, he calls out, “Good…

George Washington University Hospital has suspended negotiations with the District to build and run a new hospital east of the Anacostia River, telling city officials in a letter Wednesday that conditions placed on the deal this week by the…