UrbanTurf: 50 Units, a Food Hall, and an Eye-Catching Entertainment Venue Planned For Fort Totten
Fort Totten is getting a lot of attention from developers this year, and now an older project is picking up where it left off, albeit with a very eye-catching detail. The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is seeking zoning review for…
Curbed DC: Federal commissioners poised to again delay vote on National Zoo security plans
The Smithsonian Institution says it will submit a “revised project later this fall”
WTOP: DC Fire changes response protocol after engine crash injures 8 firefighters
WASHINGTON — Hours after Friday’s crash between two fire engines responding to an apartment fire, D.C.’s fire chief has ordered a change in protocol to lessen the chance of apparatus colliding on the way to a fire scene.
UrbanTurf: Over 80 Sites Significant to Black Georgetown to be Commemorated
Two centuries before Georgetown was entertaining the notion of $1,500/square-foot condos, it was an industrial port town where the brick streets and alley dwellings were frowned upon and enslaved and free Black populations lived in close…
WTOP: Pepco attempts to ease concerns over planned Mt. Vernon substation
WASHINGTON — Pepco is defending plans to build an electrical substation near a school in D.C.’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood, on a lot currently hosting a community garden.
Amid DC’s unemployment problems, training offers ‘Digital Hope’ for homeless
The Church of the Epiphany looks different on a Saturday afternoon. There are no robed choir members singing hymns. The black iron gate, usually wide open, is padlocked shut, and the only way in is through a back door in the alley, propped…
In Columbia Heights, a planned affordable senior housing project gains support from local ANC chair
Northwest DC’s Columbia Heights is one of the fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods in the country, but a new project is promising to add affordable housing to the area. The National Caucus & Center on Black Aging Inc. (NCBA) plans on…
Bowser Administration Matches More Than 1,000 Washingtonians with Job Opportunities in First 60 Days…
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September 5, 2018
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Gregory Jackson (DMGEO)
Bowser Administration Matches More Than 1,000 Washingtonians with Job Opportunities in First 60 Days of 1,000 Opportunities Initiative
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Bowser Administration Selects Partner to Develop and Manage Inclusive Innovation Fund for…
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September 5, 2018
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Bowser Administration Selects Partner to Develop and Manage Inclusive Innovation Fund for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs
The…
WAMU: Short Contracts, Tight Budgets Make D.C.’s Principals More Stressed Than The National Average
The D.C. Auditor’s office says the District’s principals are the most stressed in the nation, and the policy of only giving school leaders one-year contracts is largely to blame. The report, commissioned in response to a request from the…
Curbed DC: D.C. forces work to halt on historic Franklin School redevelopment after alleged damage
The District has issued a stop-work order on the $50 million redevelopment of the Franklin School, a publicly owned historic building downtown that developers are transforming into the city’s first-ever language arts museum, after officials…
News4: Car Linked to DC Mansion Murders Suspect Was Torched Like Victims’ Car
It was a shocking crime in a wealthy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Firefighters responded to a 911 call for a house on fire, but inside they found the bodies of three members of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, tortured and…
Fox 5: Personal info for 2,000 DC students mistakenly posted online
WASHINGTON - The personal information for 2,000 homeless D.C. students was mistakenly published online and accessible for six months, school officials said. According to D.C. Public Schools, the accidental disclosure took place after a…
Curbed DC: New D.C. General replacement shelter to début in Northwest this month
On Sept. 26, District officials will cut the ribbon on the first new family homeless shelter to open as a replacement for the derelict D.C. General shelter, which is slated to close this fall. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration announced…
Metro begins 8000-series railcar procurement
For immediate release: September 4, 2018
Metro begins 8000-series railcar procurement
Metro today took the first step toward acquiring its next generation of…
Register Today for WalkingTown DC 2018!
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Register Today for WalkingTown DC 2018!
The Annual Event Returns September 15-23 with Free Walking and Biking Tours Highlighting the History, Art, and Culture of the…
Armed Forces Retirement Home plans to sign letter of intent to redevelop historic Grant Building
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Sept. 4, 2018
Armed Forces Retirement Home plans to sign letter of intent to redevelop historic Grant Building
The Armed Forces Retirement Home today announced it plans to…
City Paper: Mayor Bowser Ditched Her Daily Public Schedule This Summer
Public schedules of politicians can be mundane. It’s not uncommon for a daily item to read, “There are no public events scheduled.” And no politician is going to disclose secret, questionable, or super sensitive meetings. But it is uncommon…
Capital Bikeshare Announces New e-Bike Pilot
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September 4, 2018
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Capital Bikeshare Announces New e-Bike Pilot
New vehicles begin service September 5
(Washington, DC) –Capital Bikeshare is launching…
DCist: Should D.C. Get A New NFL Stadium? Here’s Where Our Councilmembers Stand
While Mayor Muriel Bowser has made it clear that she wants the District to once again house a football team within the city, she faces at least as much competition as the NFC East. Washington's football team decamped for Landover, Md. after…