A mixed-use development would include more than 2,300 residential units, about one-third of which would be designated for low-income residents.
“I want to cook classic food and I want to do it well,” says chef/owner Matt Adler. “That’s more exciting to me than saying, ‘Here’s my interpretation of a chicken parmesan,’ which, honestly, no one gives a shit about.”
It’s also how one resident hopes to preserve a family legacy.
The city approved a master plan for this wide swath of undeveloped land more than 15 years ago. Now, they’ve offered it up to Amazon.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Florence Pan called Antwon Pitt a “violent and aggressive individual” with a “lack of remorse or acceptance of responsibility.”
According to a senior D.C. official, Mayor Vince Gray is still in negotiations with the Washington Redskins over a plan to relocate the team’s Virginia-based training facility to a site on the eastern edge of Capitol Hill.
There’s been an abundance of messages this week on the Yahoo! Group for residents of the HIll East neighborhood with complaints about startlingly high bills from the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority.
Sure, Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) was recently demoted from his beloved perch as chair of the D.C. Council’s transportation committee. But he was given the parting gift of control over the District’s Office of Planning. And it appears as if one of the first things Wells is focusing his planning efforts on might be a new stadium for D.C. United.
MPD has made an arrest following the shocking assault of a female pedestrian on the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave SE. A juvenile suspect was arrested this morning with no incident at his residence. Police will not release more information about the suspect, as he is a juvenile. The woman was punched in the face for no apparent reason last week. She suffered a broken jaw after the attack. Following this incident and an unrelated…
During my first five years in the District, I lived near the Potomac Avenue Metro station in a neighborhood known as Hill East. Though more modest than Eastern Market, which was only blocks away, the area had a nice mix of new and longtime residents, young and old, and black and white. But like many other “transitional” neighborhoods, Hill East saw its fair share of crime, much of which was discussed, debated and dissected on two extremely active local listservs. The discussions ranged from mere warnings to frustrated demands for more police activity — and, as I reported here two years ago, even a somewhat outlandish demand that residents march on Potomac Gardens, a housing project located at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue SE, where many local criminals were said to live or seek temporary refuge.
