Giant Food and joint-venture developers CHR LLC announced yesterday that a long-awaited 63,000 square-foot Giant supermarket/pharmacy will open in the Camp Simms area of Southeast (near Alabama Avenue and 15th Street SE) in spring 2006. The supermarket, whose planned construction in Ward 8 dates back at least five years, will stand alongside 25 acres worth of commercial development, worth some $37.5 million, in an area notoriously short on retail options. Attracting Giant, to Ward 8…
This DCist is in the process of moving to a new apartment, but we couldn’t help but bring our camera along with us when we were running errands, including a quick stop at the Soviet Giant near the National Cathedral. (Next to the grocery store is the abandoned G.C. Murphy, where we took this photo.) Through sleet, rain, snow and high water, the blogging never stops. — The anarchists defend their actions. — She’s…
Lots of stadium news as the day of the D.C. City Council vote on the baseball stadium proposal is here. The Post reports that Mayor Anthony Williams has lined up enough votes to get his proposal for a South Capitol Street stadium passed by the council. The two crucial votes, Ward 1’s Jim Graham (left) and Ward 8’s Sandy Allen, have been secured. In exchange for their support, Williams will fund library improvements (Graham’s request)…
We borrowed that headline from last weeks Slow Lane column in the Weekend Financial Times. In the column, Slow Lane tells us that oftentimes our rage is directed at those who had very little to do with the actual problem, citing train operators on underfunded rail networks as those who sometimes unfairly bear the brunt of the rage of commuters. DCist agrees that train and bus drivers are not always to blame for our commuting…
Yesterday, we were waiting for our metrobus to take us to work. DCist lives at the terminal stop of the 90 bus, so before buses head out on their next run, WMATA bus drivers will run to the Soviet Giant or laundromat to use the bathroom. DCist is all for bus drivers having comfortable rides along their route. But, dear readers, we want to ask you whether we should be angered by the following situation:…
