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New Images and a Progress Update for DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park

New Images and a Progress Update for DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park

Nearly three years after the design team was selected, nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) continues moving forward with plans for the 11th Street Bridge Park, which will repurpose the old 11th Street Bridge’s three concrete piers (map) into the city’s first elevated park.

On Monday night, BBAR, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), and architecture team OMA+OLIN gave…

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Amending the DC Comprehensive Plan

Amending the DC Comprehensive Plan

      The DC Off­ice of Planning (OP) is amending the District’s Comprehensive Plan, a 20-year framework that guides future growth and development in the city and shapes the places we live, work, shop, and play. OP launched the second amendment cycle to the Comprehensive Plan this year to ensure that the Plan remains responsive to the needs of the community.

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A history of DC's streetcar saga — greatergreaterwashington.org

A history of DC’s streetcar saga — greatergreaterwashington.org

The DC Streetcar will open on Saturday, February 27. It’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened.

Photo by mariordo59 on Flickr.

  Source: A history of DC’s streetcar saga — greatergreaterwashington.org

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5 Things Architecture Can Learn from the Tiny House Movement

5 Things Architecture Can Learn from the Tiny House Movement

As the global economy grows uncertain, homeowners are getting more creative in order to afford essential residential spaces. The tiny house movement has gained a foothold worldwide, encouraging the construction of homes as small as 150 square feet (14 square meters), with many smaller housing models cropping up on a daily basis. Home to residents of all ages, tiny houses have evolved far beyond…

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85-Unit Mount Pleasant Church Conversion Aims For 2016 Delivery

85-Unit Mount Pleasant Church Conversion Aims For 2016 Delivery

The conversion of the church, which has been vacant since a fire in 2008, was approved by the Historic Preservation Review Board last year.

Valor Development’s Will Lansing tells UrbanTurf that the conversion of the Meridian Hill Baptist Church at 3146 16th Street NW (map), dubbed The Mcintyre, will have 85 condominiums instead of the originally planned 70 units. The Historic Preservation Review…

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Monument Realty Proposes 133-Unit Residential Project For Chinatown

Monument Realty Proposes 133-Unit Residential Project For Chinatown

The new 11-story development will sit about a half block north of the Verizon Center.

A new residential development is on the boards for a site near DC’s Chinatown.

Monument Realty is proposing an 11-story, 133-unit residential project that will sit about half a block north of the Verizon Center (map) on a plot bounded by I Street NW to the north, 6th Street to the east, H Street to the south,…

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