GW Hospital is still expected to partner with the city on a brand new full-service hospital in Ward 8.

We kid. Kind of. According to the Washington Business Journal, the Uline Ice Arena and the surrounding area may be the next frontier in development in the District. The arena, which is just north of Union Station and hosted the first Beatles concert in the U.S. in 1964, is being looked at by developer Douglas Jemal as the anchor for a new entertainment district along the lines of the popular East End/Verizon Center area. While…

Whether you like the sterile, quasi-corporate feel of the newly-invigorated Chinatown or not, it’s near impossible to deny how far the neighborhood has come in recent years. It’s brighter, louder, crowded with life, and packed with $5.3 billion worth of development spurred by the MCI Center. But is it the city’s hottest nightspot? The Examiner’s Harry Jaffe — a longtime District resident and political observer — thinks so. In a column published yesterday, Jaffe threw…

(Editor’s Note: Earlier reports of this DCist’s loss of an arm are unfounded. It was actually our big toe.) DCist loves Fun Street. You ask: “Where might that be?” In what seems to be an aborted late 1990s marketing rebranding attempt, F Street near the MCI Center was given a Botox injection in the form of “Fun” Street to place emphasis on the strip’s funness quotient. It never caught on, but the signs remain….

DCist was in Gallery Place/Chinatown/East End/Penn Quarter (take your pick) last week to take a look at the massive soon-to-be-completed building at the southeast corner of Seventh and H streets. Already, Urban Outfitters and Benetton have opened their doors. A movie megaplex will open soon, along with some more retail, infusing the Seventh Street corridor with more pedestrian traffic. Unlike some new construction in the Seventh Street area downtown, DCist is most pleased with how…