Ward 3

Residents of a northwest D.C. community stopped by Stoddert Elementary on Saturday for updates on how transportation safety will be improved in their area, and to weigh in on draft recommendations that are part of the Rock Creek Far West…

Single-family housing still dominates many parts of upper Northwest D.C., but one Wisconsin Avenue corner could soon welcome a new six-story building.

Ward 3, home to American University, seems to be thriving. But in the midst of many middle- to high-income earners, there are people dealing with homelessness. Last month, the University of the District of Columbia hosted a panel to talk…

The development train continues to slowly chug along around Tenleytown, American University Park and along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor, perhaps exemplified best by the lot zoned for mixed use that was granted a permanent special…

D.C. has built thousands of new affordable units in recent years, but many wealthy neighborhoods in Northwest have failed to deliver any meaningful contribution to the city's housing stock.

The latest salvo in national publications’ ongoing war against the real D.C. comes courtesy of Esquire, which published a meandering feature story on Thursday with the red-hot thesis that most people in Washington don’t like the Trump…

A new family homeless shelter set to open in Upper Northwest in roughly the next year will have a smaller patio deck for children and their guardians than initially envisioned following a protracted legal fight over plans for the facility.…

EYA Senior Vice President Aakash Thakkar, a residential developer who lives in a single-family home in Upper Northwest D.C., says that type of housing is far too common and the high-income area needs to do its part to allow more multifamily…

The threat of appeal has delayed and deterred many planned-unit developments (PUD) in the District in recent years, although typically these appeals are associated with projects proposing hundreds of housing units in a construction-heavy…

At a corner table in the Tenleytown Panera, Petar Dimtchev is scrolling through his phone. He wants to show off an audio clip. Dimtchev, 32, is challenging three-term incumbent Mary Cheh for the Ward 3 Council seat. He’s an independent;…

After more than a year of legal challenges, the DC Court of Appeals ruled Thursday to uphold a local zoning board's approval of a plan to develop a homeless shelter in Ward 3. The decision paves the way for D.C.'s Department of General…