Always good to see this: the city is selling 18 properties it owns that are abandoned, and 2 of them are in our neighborhood. The City Paper has the article, with most being seized due to back taxes, and most have lain empty for years. Apparently this is the city’s Department of Housing and Community…
With the good news that the 14th Street construction is supposed to finish July 9 was the information that crews would be working around the clock to finish. Let’s hope it’s not too noisy, as it was back in 2007 when they were building DCUSA: If you live in the area, please let me know…
In case you didn’t see it on Twitter earlier, Meridian Pint said they’re opening this Thursday! From their Facebook: Meridian Pint Grand Opening is this Thursday….FINALLY! We have arrived. We’ll be warming up with some mock services before then so we can be sure we’re ready for everybody. See ya Thursday.If you recall, it’s an…
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a What We’re Missing post, where I find something I think the neighborhood could use. Past ones included a bookstore, child care, post office, thrift shop, and movie theater. The full list is here. Then a few months ago I had an open-ended What We’re Missing post where commenters could…
It looks like our Big Dig is almost done. There’s been some confusion about when the Columbia Heights streetscape construction will be finished, but thanks to the very responsive Kevin Kovaleski at DDOT, who sends out those daily construction updates on the Columbia Heights streetscape construction, we know this: As we shared in our update…
It’s farmers market season in our area! There’s the new Columbia Heights Community Marketplace, plus the already existing Mt. Pleasant and 14th & U markets, and now our neighbor to the north has the Petworth Market, mercifully on a different day: Friday. Running from 3 to 7 pm on 9th Street NW between Georgia and…
Cheetah @ Park Triangle Apartments DC Originally uploaded by alex.DCDon’t know how I missed this: Cheetah Aid DC, a group that advocates for cheetahs, had an event a couple of weeks ago at the Park Triangle apartments, the building on the Civic Plaza with the first floor retail. Apparently they had a live cheetah on…
Finally renovating this house Originally uploaded by squidpantsLooks like there’s finally some work going on at 1337 Girard Street NW, an abandoned townhouse on the north side of the street. I’ve written about this place before: it’s one of four somewhat crummy townhouses on the north side of the street, including what I like to…
The Post and NBC4 both have pieces on the traffic and construction on 14th Street, but unfortunately both are rather light on content. The NBC piece basically says there’s a lot of traffic, and compares the project to Boston’s Big Dig, which is kind of funny. Not much more than that, though. The Post, however,…
Just got this photo and note from a reader: I noticed this yesterday while watching the construction. As part of redoing 14th st they need to remove the old street car tracks that are a few inches beneath the asphalt. Pretty cool to see what once existed, esepecially considering the longer term -and a bit…