Development

Employees at Little Jewels Child Development Center in Deanwood had just put the kids down for a nap on Wednesday afternoon when someone came to the door to deliver an urgent letter. The owner of Little Jewels, Ruth Thompson Cole, answered…

The Navy Yard development pipeline continues to grow. Yesterday, Greysteel announced that DBT Development had acquired financing to move forward on a condo project at 37 L Street SE (map). As designed by Bonstra | Haresign, the 11-story…

In an unprecedented move, a D.C. developer padlocked long time business, including a daycare, with just a one day notice on Thursday. The sudden shutdown came just four months after 1100 Eastern LLC, a division of Neighborhood Development…

Another planned-unit development in DC bites the dust. Last month, the development team behind the PUD intended to replace the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (map) requested that the Zoning Commission "extinguish" the approved plans…

WASHINGTON -- Mayor Muriel Bowser's office had some big news Tuesday for a major mixed-use development east of the Anacostia River. The office announced that it introduced a bill to provide tax increment financing for the Reunion Square…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2, 2018 CONTACT:  LaToya Foster (EOM) Chanda Washington (DMPED) Mayor Bowser Announces First-Ever Tax Increment Financing Proposal for Ward 8 Development Legislation Introduced by the Mayor Will Create a…

Today, UrbanTurf catches up with the residential pipeline in two East of the River neighborhoods that have received a lot of attention lately: Deanwood and Congress Heights. Deanwood has recently earned a reputation for being hot among…

The skies were clear and blue in the winter sunlight in early December 2016, as Mayor Muriel Bowser plunged a gleaming shovel into a pile of sand and declared the ground broken at McMillan Sand Filtration Facility. It was a perfect day for…

The developments planned for the intersection of North Capitol Street and Florida Avenue NE continue to pile up. Nonprofit So Others May Eat (SOME) has filed a zoning application to deliver an all-affordable development just south of the…

Another proposed development is joining several others planned near the North Capitol Street and Florida Avenue intersection. Maedwell Companies is applying to the Historic Preservation Review Board to deliver a 50 foot-tall…

When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often just want to move black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New School, to an audience at a 2015 conference on equitable development in the…

In 2016, photographer Joy Sharon Yi began taking the Metro to Barry Farm, a large public housing complex in Southeast Washington, D.C., built in 1943 on the first city settlement where African-Americans could buy property and build homes…

The Martha's Table redevelopment may get started soon. Madison Investments applied for raze permits for several of the buildings in the 2100 block of 14th Street NW (map) this month, signifying a crucial first step toward redevelopment of…

Mount Vernon Triangle is poised to see another all-affordable housing development in the coming years, with a groundbreaking on the Capitol Vista project set for Sept. 25. Located at Second and H streets NW, the development will transform…

The planned sale of Metro’s hulking downtown headquarters could be a game-changer for Penn Quarter. As the agency’s rezoning request for the property heads to a public hearing in two weeks, residents and officials have started imagining…

Nearly six months ago, UrbanTurf reported on the plans filed for a mixed-use redevelopment of Tenleytown's former Dancing Crab restaurant. Now, we are getting a more detailed look at the project.

A recent land deal in D.C.’s flourishing NoMa neighborhood could help transform a long-untapped intersection where two major thoroughfares meet into a hub of housing and retail. Inked at $25.5 million, the deal makes way for a mixed-use…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson plans to revise a bill that amends a key chapter in the city's comprehensive plan with language to establish affordable housing as a priority and provide clarity on how the Zoning Commission can…

As the twenty locales on Amazon's shortlist for a second headquarters wait with bated breath for news of a selection, many have speculated how the arrival of the economic behemoth would affect the housing market. Now, a new HotPads analysis…

When Benning Market food hall breaks ground in December or January, it will do so with the investment of more than $257,000 from a crowdfunding campaign launched by developer Neighborhood Development Co. But Adrian Washington, a principal…