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In the yearslong legal battle over the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant, the project’s backers picked up a victory Friday — but like so many others in the long-stalled project, the victory may be short-lived as opponents…

It's official: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns one more home in DC.

The impending resignation of Jack Evans, a titan of D.C. politics who championed business interests and the city’s growth, marks a new era for the D.C. Council, which has drifted further left in recent years.

The future looks bleak for D.C.’s last standing streetcar bridge, which has been abandoned since streetcars stopped operating on the Glen Echo Trolley Line in 1960.

TGIF! Trayon White has competition in Ward 8 — from his last campaign manager, no less, who tells DCist in part: “I never thought White was better equipped for the job than myself."

"I like a New York strip," the mayor said of her favorite cut.

Dupont Circle’s loss is the West End’s gain in D.C., where Ruth’s Chris will open its sprawling new steakhouse on Jan. 13.

Boston-based GID Real Estate Investments has acquired The Woodley apartments in Northwest D.C. for $180.25 million, a relative bargain for the multifamily property that set a record when it last sold less than six years ago.

Founders Bank, the first new community bank formed in the District in 15 years, has received FDIC approval.

Buried in this week’s D.C. Council agenda was a December 19 request by Mayor Muriel Bowser to enact emergency gaming legislation that would pave the way for ABC licensed establishments to offer electronic “games of skill.”

He took the District to court challenging the way it awarded a lucrative mobile sports betting deal, but ultimately lost.

The International Spy Museum will change an exhibit that addresses torture after members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the intelligence community said the exhibit was “sanitizing” the torture program used by the CIA after 9/11.…

Retro American fare with a modern twist in the former Restaurant Nora space.

“So you guys gonna learn some steps?” Jakari Sherman asks me and my colleague Sasha-Ann Simons, who has agreed to join me in an impromptu, mid-workday dance lesson.

The D.C. apartment building that set a record with its 2014 sale has just sold again, but this time for $15M less.

The International Spy Museum’s glitzy new location at L’Enfant Plaza boasts interactive exhibits on espionage, and artifacts like the ice axe used in the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

A Council bill would ban these DIY firearms, but doesn't catch them all.