DCist: D.C. Might Be Buying The Dog Park In Columbia Heights After All
As of last week, the unofficial dog park at 11th and Park Road NW in Columbia Heights looked like its days were numbered. Now, it has a new leash on life.
Washington Business Journal: Inside the new MedStar Georgetown proton therapy center
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital has taken the lead in the local proton therapy arms race.
Washington Post: Bowser and D.C. Council offer competing visions on affordable-housing crisis
D.C. lawmakers have overhauled a package of affordable-housing initiatives that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser highlighted as central to her second term, setting up a showdown over the direction of housing policy in the nation’s capital as a final…
Washington Post: Closing the lid on the Treasure Trove, a downtown D.C. jewelry store
A few days into the Treasure Trove’s going-out-of-business sale, the framed photo of Jerry Broder was quietly taken down from the wall.
DCist: A Bridge Connecting The Arboretum And Kenilworth Park Is Slated For 2021
What if, in 15 minutes time, you could walk from Kenilworth Park to the U.S. National Arboretum?
MarketWatch: Four years, $13 million and dozens of hands: How ‘affordable housing’ gets made in…
Jennifer Sumler has lived in her apartment building on Cedar Street in the Takoma section of Washington, D.C., for her entire life, but the sound she heard one late November evening a few years ago was like nothing she’d ever experienced.
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City Paper: Doctors Blame D.C.’s High Asthma Rates in Part on Poor Housing
And children in Wards 7 and 8 see higher asthma rates than the rest of the city.
Ronald Thompson Jr. in The Post: D.C. Mayor Bowser is playing an old game. We beat It once. We can…
I come from a line of strong, black, Washington women who fought for high-quality education.
UrbanTurf: Developer of Massive Anacostia Project Seeks Time Extension After TIF Funding Seems…
A nine-building, 1.5 million square foot development near the Anacostia Metro station (map) recently got a promising nudge forward. Mayor Bowser recently announced that the administration is poised to move ahead with Tax Increment…
City Paper: With GoGoTix, Malachi Johns Wants to Connect More People to the World of Go-Go
A new website offers free listings for go-go bands, with hopes to attract new fans to D.C.'s hometown sound.
Washington Post Express: D.C. pays tribute to black cultural icons with the Howard Theatre Walk of…
The next time you’re strolling near the Howard Theatre, watch where you’re going — you might be stepping on a piece of D.C. history.
Washington Business Journal: GSA sells ‘prime development site’ south of National Mall
The General Services Administration has sold a sliver of land just south of the National Mall in Southwest D.C. for $4.1 million, the second transaction tied to federal legislation aimed at helping the federal government shed excess real…
Washington Business Journal: WBJ Editor-in-Chief Doug Fruehling to depart for San Francisco
Doug Fruehling, veteran journalist and editor-in-chief at the Washington Business Journal for a decade, will soon be taking inventory of the Bay Area business community.
DCist: D.C. Parks Are The Best In The Country, According To One Ranking
D.C. snagged the top spot on this year’s ParkScore, the Trust for Public Land’s annual ranking of urban parks and recreation opportunities in the 100 largest cities in the country.
Curbed: D.C. has the best city park system in the U.S., Trust for Public Land study says
Nearly all District residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park
WAMU: How Walt Whitman’s Decade In Washington Changed His Life — And His Poetry
On the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth, Washingtonians reflect on his time in D.C.
Bisnow: GSA Sells Development Site Next To National Mall
The U.S. government has just sold a half-acre property one block south of the National Mall that it marketed as a "prime development site."
Washington Post: D.C. has the nation’s best park system, study says. Arlington isn’t far behind.
When not being criticized as a swamp that must be drained, Washington is occasionally praised for its arboreal charms.
Curbed: D.C. government prepares for 2020 U.S. census with ‘Complete Count’ campaign
Over $3 billion in federally funded programs hinges on accurate census numbers
District Links: Elissa Silverman and director of employment services spar in Ward 7 over budget;…
Good Wednesday morning. Elissa Silverman and Muriel Bowser's administration have been in a public spat over funding for workforce development and employment programs. When Silverman’s committee with oversight over the Department of…