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Nadeau pledges to push rent control reforms as tenant advocates rally in support of Columbia Heights…

Jamie Rogers Mar 5, 2020

Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau rallied alongside about 150 tenants and supporters at a Columbia Heights apartment building over the weekend and vowed to pursue legislative initiatives to expand the city’s rent control law. …

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Columbia Heights tenants detail the chronic disrepair and growing frustration that led to their rent…

Avi Bajpai Feb 19, 2020

It is early February and Columbia Heights resident Felipe Salvador says his family hasn’t had functional heating for months. Instead, he had to buy two portable radiators, one for the bedroom in which his three kids sleep and the…

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Columbia Heights vendors push to gain legal vending rights — and protect their place in the…

Jake Maher Dec 13, 2019

On an overcast Saturday afternoon, business is starting to pick up at 14th and Irving streets NW across from the Columbia Heights Metrorail station. While some shoppers head into the DC USA mall, others approach the thriving community of…

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In the midst of a heat wave, activists opposing ICE march through DC

Will Lennon Jul 6, 2019

Hundreds of community leaders, activists and immigrants joined together in Columbia Heights last Saturday to rally against raids in DC a week earlier by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The event was organized primarily by Sanctuary…

WTOP: Columbia Heights Wawa opens May 23, Adams Morgan to follow

Editor May 9, 2019

Convenience store chain Wawa’s third urban-format store in D.C. will open in Columbia Heights May 23, with one in Adams Morgan soon to follow and a fifth D.C. store in Tenleytown.

City Paper: Rent Hikes May Force Longtime Residents Out of a Columbia Heights Building

Editor Apr 25, 2019

The building's owners want to raise rents by as much as 60 percent over four years.

Street Sense: Their landlord is trying to push them out — residents respond with a rent strike

Editor Apr 18, 2019

If you passed by the pulsating intersection of Park and 14th Streets Northwest in Columbia Heights on April 5, you would have thought there was a block party. People with smiling faces were shouting and clapping to the sounds of…

Washingtonian: Meridian Pint Is Closing in Columbia Heights and Opening in Arlington

Editor Apr 15, 2019

Owner John Andrade blames DC's oversaturated beer and restaurant scenes.

DCist: Like A Friend Who Just Had A Kid, Meridian Pint Is Moving To Arlington

Editor Apr 15, 2019

After nearly a decade on 11th Street NW, Columbia Heights mainstay Meridian Pint is headed to Arlington.

Washington Post: For International Women’s Day, this liquor store is selling 1,000 bottles of wine…

Editor Mar 8, 2019

The word spread on a Reddit thread, in texts between friends, and on street corners in Northwest Washington: In honor of International Women’s Day, a liquor store in Columbia Heights would be giving out 1,000 bottles of wine to women who…

Bisnow: Dog Owners Face Off With Developers In Push To Preserve Park Space

Editor Feb 12, 2019

Maggie Garrett walks her dog, Finn, each day to a small lot on a Columbia Heights corner that residents have long used as an unofficial dog park.

Washington Post: D.C. bid $2.1 million for a plot of dirt used as a dog park. It might not be…

Editor Feb 5, 2019

Columbia Heights residents have worked for years to save their neighborhood dog park. They led letter-writing campaigns, signed petitions, lobbied lawmakers and ran a social media campaign featuring photos of pups pleading city officials…

Curbed DC: Metro puts up for sale developable Columbia Heights parcel that hosts unofficial dog park

Editor Jan 17, 2019

Metro wants to fetch at least $2.15 million by selling a large corner lot in Columbia Heights. The catch? The land, covering more than 7,000 square feet, is currently home to a dog park.

WAMU: Sorry Fido: Metro Wants To Sell Columbia Heights Dog Park Land

Editor Jan 16, 2019

Metro has put eight pieces of extra land up for sale, and one plot has caught the eye of dog lovers in Columbia Heights: 1100 Park Road Northwest.

UrbanTurf: Metro to Sell Eight Surplus Properties, Including a Columbia Heights Dog Park

Editor Jan 16, 2019

While the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) waded into several endeavors to have their properties redeveloped last year, the agency is starting 2019 with its foot on the gas.

Washington Post: Amid prosperity, D.C.’s independent retailers struggle to survive

Editor Jan 5, 2019

As bike lanes popped up across the city, the owners of Bicycle Space hoped to capitalize on a growing cycling craze when they leased a prime storefront three years ago in Northwest Washington.

DCist: 10 Facts You May Not Know About Columbia Heights

Editor Jan 3, 2019

A mural that hugs the field at 11th Street NW next to Tubman Elementary School features a poem about Columbia Heights that I’ve always felt captures the neighborhood. Written in both English and Spanish, it reads:

Mayor Bowser Announces First Investment from Preservation Fund to Keep Housing Affordable for Over…

Press Release Dec 20, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 20, 2018 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Gwendolyn Cofield (DHCD) Mayor Bowser Announces First Investment from Preservation Fund to Keep Housing Affordable for Over 180 Residents One of the District’s Fund…

Street Sense: This local librarian is serving his community by serving up food and literature

Editor Dec 6, 2018

At the corner of 15th Street and Irving Street Northwest on a cold November morning, a man stands by a cart laden with granola bars, fruit, bottles of water and books. As people hurry by on their morning commute, he calls out, “Good…

Greater Greater Washington: Here’s what bus lanes on 14th Street NW could look like

Editor Nov 27, 2018

14th Street in Columbia Heights could get bus lanes, if a proposal from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) becomes reality. The plans are in the early stages, and agency and neighborhood officials are looking for feedback.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser, other DC officials and community leaders today celebrated the completion of a long-awaited Ward 4 segment of the Metropolitan Branch Trail — filling one of the last remaining…

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