The Southeast D.C. park, which features a futuristic looking walking bridge and a canal basin, has been named a finalist for an Urban Open Space Award.

Neighborhood blog JDLand reported last week that ANC 6D voted to support a proposal by the Capitol Riverfront Business Improvement District to add more words to the Navy Yard Metrorail station name. The BID is angling to alter the title to some kind of combination of “Capitol Riverfront/Ballpark/Navy Yard” — while the ANC also voted in support of adding “Arena Stage” to the Waterfront/SEU station name.

We missed this one from the Washington Business Journal earlier this week: Harris Teeter is looking at a fourth location in the District, this time at the mixed-use Capitol Riverfront development The Yards, nearby Nationals Park. The lease has yet to be signed and the BizJo estimates it would take at least three years before the store could open thanks to the current financing market, but word of a grocery store coming to the…

Via JDLand, we find this YouTube video a resident made of an incessant beeping noise emanating from the general direction of the Department of Public Works equipment staging area at 900 New Jersey Ave SE. According to the Capitol Riverfront BID, that site is eventually set to be redeveloped into housing, but in the meantime, the resident who made this video says the beeping has been going on for at least two weeks. We’re checking…

Photo by Grundlepuck Ward 6 D.C. Council member Tommy Wells is first out of the gate with a statement admonishing his colleagues for considering diverting funding away from longstanding projects in order to fund the construction of a new Convention Center Hotel. Word of such discussions, which would involve taking away dedicated subsidies from projects like the Southwest waterfront, the Capitol Riverfront, the Skyland Shopping Center and the O Street Market, first surfaced earlier…

The area around the new baseball stadium isn’t much more than a construction site so far, but the promise of a bustling entertainment district in what was formerly a bleak industrial sector is enough to leave developers and city officials frantic for a new branding. According to a Post article published today:Despite appearances, this is just the way District leaders hoped it would be: a ballpark set amid a vast Southeast Washington neighborhood in the…