City Paper: Bowser’s Inaugural Committee Dumped Nearly $200,000 Into Her Constituent Services…
An Office of Campaign Finance audit is ongoing.
Washington Business Journal: Bowser ready to explore D.C. height limit changes in order to meet…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has for months talked up her plan to see the District add 36,000 new homes by 2025 — and she could be willing to touch a political third rail to meet that goal.
Washington Business Journal: Events D.C. names operator for RFK campus fields
Events D.C. has selected Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park to manage the 27-acre RFK campus fields complex, the first step in the long-term overhaul of the larger site.
UrbanTurf: From Residential to Commercial: A Georgetown Office Conversion
While some developments in the city are faced with questions about the feasibility of the office market, a proposed project in Georgetown aims to add office space to Wisconsin Avenue.
WAMU: Is Metrorail’s Reputation Improving? Poll Respondents Seem To Think So.
Residents in the region say they have a better opinion of Metro than they did two years ago, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
DCist: D’Quan Young Was Shot By An Off Duty Police Officer. A Year Later, His Family Is Mourning And…
As the sun set at the Brentwood Recreation Center on Thursday night, Catherine Young took the microphone and began speaking to the gathered crowd about her son, D’Quan.
Kriston Capps in CityLab: The Problem With D.C.’s New Apple Store
The city has converted a cultural gem entrusted to the entire city into an exclusive outlet that serves only the few.
Bisnow: The 2.7M SF Project That Kicked Off NoMa’s Development Wave Is Finally Complete
The decade-long development of Constitution Square, a six-building, 2.7M SF complex at the heart of the booming NoMa neighborhood, will be completed this month.
DHCD Seeks Offers to Transform Vacant Ward 8 Site into Affordable Housing
May 10, 2019
DHCD Seeks Offers to Transform Vacant Ward 8 Site into Affordable Housing
Site Provides Opportunities for Affordable Homeownership, Rental Projects
Media Contact: Gwendolyn Cofield | Communications Director
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The DC Lineup for this weekend: music, Mother’s Day and migratory birds
This Mother’s Day weekend, May 10 to 12, is full of ways to celebrate moms, the DC community and global connections. Honor mothers with a blood drive for maternal health, free tickets to the International Spy Museum’s brand-new home, and…
District Links: Gray moves to cap United Medical Center subsidy as costs balloon; Mendelson defends…
TGIF! Phil Mendelson is sticking with his proposed changes to open records laws through a budget provision despite calls for a public hearing.
Mendelson faces calls from four council members for public hearing prior to FOIA changes proposed in…
Near the end of a daylong work session Wednesday, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson faced a spirited challenge from four council members who urged him not to pursue new exemptions to the District’s Freedom of Information Act next week via…
Mayor Bowser Signs Order to Drive Bold Goal of 36,000 Housing Units by 2025
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May 10, 2019
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Mayor Bowser Signs Order to Drive Bold Goal of 36,000 Housing Units by 2025
Mayor Calls on Council to Support…
UrbanTurf: Three And a Half Years Later, Developer Takes New Route For Superfresh Redevelopment in…
With the redevelopment of the former Superfresh grocery site in Spring Valley still up in the air after 3.5 years, the development team is taking a new route.
Washington Business Journal: Historic Georgetown properties to be connected, renovated and converted
A Georgetown property owner is proposing to rehabilitate and connect adjacent Wisconsin Avenue properties while converting the entirety to commercial.
WAMU: Battle Over Airbnb Regulation Escalates In D.C.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is threatening to withhold building permits for government building projects if Mayor Muriel Bowser fails to implement a law passed by the Council last year that will regulate and restrict short-term…
WTOP: DC’s iconic Loeb’s Deli turns 60
It was May 12, 1959, when Walter and Sigrid Loeb opened the original location of Loeb’s Deli at 617 15th St. NW, at the corner of 15th and G. Sixty years and two locations later, it is still a family affair.
Washington Business Journal: These are D.C.’s most valuable taxable properties. Plus, what…
The estimated value of all taxable real estate in D.C. is $153 billion. The 10 properties in the gallery above — the most valuable taxable properties in the District — account for 2.64% of that, or about $5.6 billion.
Washington Post: Poll: Metro reputation is improving, but that doesn’t mean more are riding
Metro’s reputation in the region has improved dramatically in the past two years and has almost reached the positive levels it enjoyed before a fatal smoke incident in 2015, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.
Washington Business Journal: Mendelson, Bowser admin spar over home-sharing again. But this time…
The D.C. Council in 2018 adopted one of the toughest home-sharing laws in the country, denying the rental of second homes via websites such as Airbnb and restricting the rental of rooms in primary homes to no more than 90 days when the…