After some Columbia Heights residents raised a stink about the discount retailers at the DC USA shopping center and campaigned in vain for a Whole Foods, there’s something they can be happy about: an organic grocery store, Richmond-based Ellwood Thompson’s, could be coming to the neighborhood in 18 months. While the Express’ FreeRide blog said the store will only move into an eco-friendly Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (or LEED) certified building, we contacted…

A recent issue of apartment industry publication Multi-Housing News discusses a development about to take shape in the Adams Morgan area. The imposing, nearly century-old, neoclassical First Church of Christ, Scientist building at the corner of Euclid and Columbia streets will be reborn as a mixed-use condominium building. The newly monikered Unity Square Condominiums is a $27.5 million redevelopment, headed by the church, in partnership with Chevy Chase-based First Management Group. The church will…

Good morning, Washington. To those of you who celebrate the holiday, we hope you’re having a pleasant Passover, and that last night’s second Seder was, uh, salubrious. Okay, we’ll stop now. Students Vote For Laxer Pot Penalties: The Post reports on yesterday’s U-Md. student election results, which included a large victory for a resolution in favor of making penalties for alcohol and marijuana violations equivalent. The ballot measure was intended to send a message to…