Metro says it is inviting the city back to the table to purchase the nearly 7,400 square-foot plot.
Metro owns the land because it has a large vent fan for the Green and Yellow lines. But dog owners hope the city will swoop in to buy the land before developers do.
After signs saying “no dogs allowed” went up, community members at a de facto dog run sprang into action.
The group needs WMATA’s permission to improve the park.
Mayor Vince Gray is a cat-owner, and yesterday jokingly toyed with the idea of having parks in D.C. for our little feline friends.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty presided over the opening of a fabulously-appointed new dog park at 17th and S Streets NW yesterday (along with a refurbished park for all living things at 17th and T, but the focus was clearly on the pooches’ new playground). As theses photographs illustrate, the park features a hill-shaped, artificial grass surface and a water fountain designed specifically for dogs. The event attracted at well over a hundred local residents and…
How big of a deal are doggie politics to D.C. residents? Big enough to cause D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans to show up for the groundbreaking at the new S Street Dog Park. Flickr user maxedaperture stopped by the ceremony yesterday and snagged a few good shots. The triangle park at 17th and S Streets NW had been an unofficial dog park for years, and the city finally approved…
DCist was the first to report on the completion of the city’s first off-leash dog park in the Logan Circle/Shaw area, and now we bring word of a free dog vaccination clinic and licensing event planned at the park this weekend. The event, hosted by the D.C. Department of Health, will happen this Saturday, November 22, from 1 – 4 p.m. The new Shaw Dog Park is located on 11th Street NW, near R Street….
Slipping through the cracks of this exciting election news cycle is this critical item out of the Shaw/Logan Circle neighborhoods: your dog park is complete! Check out before and after photos above of the new dog park at Shaw Recreation Field, on 11th Street NW just above Rhode Island Ave. The new park only broke ground a little over three weeks ago — that’s some fast doggy run construction. The fenced in dog area replaced…
Make sure you don’t miss this hilarious story from the Post’s Paul Schwartzman, who chronicles one local developer’s plan to turn a parcel of land he owns into a private dog park that would be run by his teenage daughter as a hobby. We haven’t been following the story of this particular, apparently controversial plot of land in Chevy Chase, and we know, dog park politics is serious business in this town, but check this…
