UrbanTurf: 155 Affordable Continuing Care Units Proposed in Kenilworth
A new senior living community is on the boards for DC.
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Bisnow: Developer Plans 155-Unit Senior Living Project East Of The River
The growing demand for senior housing in D.C. continues to push developers to pursue new projects, with the latest community planned for Ward 7.
DCist: A Food Co-op Is Being Developed By And For Residents Of Wards 7 And 8
Wards 7 and 8 have more than 150,000 residents, and only three of the city’s 49 grocery stores. (For comparison, Ward 7 has just as many grocery stores—two—as a 0.1 mile stretch of Columbia Heights.)
UrbanTurf: East of the River Residents Organize to Create Grocery Co-Op pixel
A group of DC residents is taking matters into its own hands to bring more grocery options east of the Anacostia River.
Afro-American: Families First Offers Success Centers
Last week, agency heads from several departments that service the residents East of the River laid out their plan for comprehensive programs that would service residents over the upcoming months.
Bisnow: Healthcare Deserts Being Left Behind As Systems Expand Care Into Communities
Many of the healthcare services people receive have shifted away from hospital campuses into community-based facilities, often adapting vacant retail spaces into primary care and urgent care centers.
Washington Informer: MLK Deli’s White to Offer Seafood in Ward 7
It has long been an example of a thriving enterprise when a business decides to expand and Tyrone White, a successful carryout owner in Ward 8, will be doing so soon.
Washington Informer: Sibley Hospital’s Ward Infinity Seeks Public Funds
An initiative to improve the health outcomes of Ward 7 and 8 residents seeks funds from the D.C. government to expand its work.
Fully renovated Capitol View Library strengthens Ward 7 community
Until the 1960s, the library offerings in Southeast DC’s Marshall Heights and Capitol View neighborhoods were limited to just two bookmobiles. In 1965, neighbors won a 10-year battle to build a DC Public Library branch in their area, but…
WAMU: D.C.’s Low-Income Neighborhood Schools Are Losing Money. Is The Budget Or Enrollment To Blame?
Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2020 budget increases spending on public education, schools in wards 7 and 8 are set to see significant drops in funding, according to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
City Paper: United Medical Center Quietly Closes Its Cancer Clinic
The closure will force patients to seek services elsewhere.
City Paper: Ward 7 Democrats Election Features a Former Councilmember and Party Planning Drama
Saturday’s election is turning into a proxy war between supporters of Vince Gray and Yvette Alexander.
Mayor Bowser to Celebrate Modernization of Capitol View Library in Ward 7
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 23, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
George Williams (DCPL)
Mayor Bowser to Celebrate Modernization of Capitol View Library in Ward 7
The Mayor’s Recently Released Fiscal Year 2020 Budget…
Washington Informer: Ward 7 Residents Lose Court Battle over Fire Station
Several activists who live in the Deanwood section of the Ward 7, led by well-known political figure Dorothy Douglas, fell short last week in D.C. Superior Court in a bid to stop a fire station from being built in their immediate…
DCist: Ward 7 Is Getting Its First-Ever Urgent Care Center
Communities east of the Anacostia River will get their very first urgent care center later this year, after a D.C. regulatory agency finally granted the last bureaucratic approval the center needed to open its doors. Washington City Paper…
Washington Informer: Gray, Newsham Urge Ward 7 to Proactively Fight Crime
D.C. Council member Vincent Gray recently held a crime summit in his ward and encouraged the residents not to complain about criminal lawbreaking but to do something about it.
City Paper: The First Urgent Care Center East of the River Is on Its Way
Advocates say the center is a major step forward in the fight for health equity, and long overdue.
Washington Informer: DSLBD Director to Ward 7 Entrepreneurs: ‘Go For It’
When Kristi Whitfield, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD), came to speak to the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization’s “First Friday” program on March 1, many expected her to…
Capitol View Interim Library Closing March 16
For Immediate Release
March 9, 2018
Media Contact: George Williams, Media Relations Manager
Capitol View Interim Library Closing March 16
Renovated Capitol View Library to Open March 23
(Washington, D.C.) - The Capitol…
Next City: Why History Matters in Equitable Development Planning
The researchers could have led with the numbers — homes purchased, local small businesses assisted, construction worker trainees placed, pounds of fruit and vegetables harvested.