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Apr 18, 2013

City Paper, WPFW to Bid Farewell to Building That Housed Them For Two Decades

The building that housed both the Washington City Paper and WPFW will be razed within the next few weeks, leaving both outlets searching for new homes.

Apr 04, 2013

FBI Could Stay in D.C., Move to Site Near Union Station

A new proposal could keep the FBI in D.C., moving it to site a block away from Union Station.

Aug 20, 2012

MLK Library Marks 40th Anniversary This Week

This week the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library celebrates its 40th anniversary, and library officials have a number of events planned to commemorate it.

May 07, 2012

Brutal: J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building Declared World’s Ugliest Building Worth Visiting

We know the FBI’s downtown headquarters is an eye sore, but is it the world’s worst eye sore? Apparently so.

Nov 19, 2011

Protesters Occupy Franklin School

This afternoon the Franklin School located at 13th and K Streets NW was occupied by a group of protesters affiliated with Occupy DC. The school, which was built in 1869 and served as a homeless shelter until it was closed in 2008, is unoccupied as the city debates what to do with it.

Nov 15, 2011

Non-Residents to Help Decide Future of MLK Library

A panel is meeting this week to help decide what to do with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. But no one on the panel is a District resident. Is that a bad thing?

Nov 09, 2011

Feds Agree: The FBI Building Is Awful

Housing Complex reported this morning on a study from the federal government that concluded what pretty much every District resident and visitor has long known: the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue is ugly and useless at effectively housing the agency.

Oct 28, 2011

MLK Library Move Again Pondered

The future of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library is one of those contentious issues that surprisingly gets people riled up. And so it will again in November, when a group of urban planners and library scientists gather to decide what to do with the aging building that houses the District’s flagship public library.

Jul 12, 2010

Bum-Bum. Bum-Bum.

Bum-bum-bum-bum! Reader and regular commenter DistrictDon19 snapped this shot of the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, which has been quite appropriately outfitted for the cable channel’s annual Shark Week. You’ll never go in the water again!…

 
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