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11th Street Bridge Park

11th Street Bridge Park closes in on capital fundraising goal

Jake Maher Aug 2, 2019

DC residents and visitors are one step closer to a pedestrian-friendly walk from Navy Yard and Capitol Hill to historic Anacostia and Fairlawn without cars whizzing alongside them — via Washington’s first elevated public space, a park that…

UrbanTurf: Will the 11th Street Bridge Park Community Land Trust Soon Make Its First Purchase?

Editor Mar 11, 2019

Three years after the idea of a community land trust was floated by the group behind the 11th Street Bridge Park, the trust could be close to making its first land buys.

Next City: Why History Matters in Equitable Development Planning

Editor Mar 7, 2019

The researchers could have led with the numbers — homes purchased, local small businesses assisted, construction worker trainees placed, pounds of fruit and vegetables harvested.

Afro-American: New Program to Help Families Save

Editor Mar 2, 2019

Children and families in D.C. may get an opportunity to better prepare for the future with a new program that hopes to help Ward 8 families build savings accounts.

Washingtonian: It’s Being Billed as the High Line of DC. Will Anyone Actually Use it?

Editor Nov 13, 2018

Plans for the upcoming 11th Street Bridge Park are impressive, but people need to show up.

UrbanTurf: 11th Street Bridge Park Organizers Believe Park Will Be Complete By 2023

Editor Nov 5, 2018

If everything goes according to plan, the team behind DC's 11th Street Bridge Park (map) believe that the city's first elevated park will be complete in four years. UrbanTurf recently checked in to see how the project has stayed the course…

Scott Kratz in The Post: There’s plenty we can do about displacement in D.C.

Editor Jun 24, 2018

In conversations across the District, and particularly in the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River where I work, there is a very real and heartfelt anxiety that gentrification and the displacement that accompanies it are sweeping…

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The GOP-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is demanding all records from the Metropolitan Police Department's internal investigation into claims of manipulated crime data. …

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A newly issued report card on the state of DC's trees offers an overall grade of A-minus — the same as last year — but warns that the city has been losing ground on its goal of reaching a 40% canopy…

District Links: New report cites 5.7% drop in DC jobs over past year; OCF investigating claims against Lewis George…

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A new report on DC's economic and revenue trends shows a 5.7% drop in jobs over the last year and an increase in the office vacancy rate to 18.3%.

District Links: Bowser resubmits PSC nominations fought by environmentalists; group rejects calls to drop White House…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser last week withdrew — and then resubmitted — two controversial nominations for the Public Service Commission that would have otherwise been deemed disapproved at month's end.

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