The National Leadership Campus was dropped as a Hine site bidder by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, NLC member Paul Yandura confirmed. “We received the call yesterday. We knew we were up against professional for-profit developers and Hine was a longshot, but we decided to give it a shot […]
I, like so many other people who call Capitol Hill home, am not from around here. I will pause for a second and let you take that one in– I know! You’ve never heard that one before, huh? A comment I kept hearing early on about DC is that you know you’re in DC when […]
Councilman Tommy Wells tweeted today to expect a 30-45 day time frame for a selection for the Hine site developer once best and final offers from the bidding developers are processed. Wells’s estimates are based on his conversation with the Deputy Mayor’s staff, who ultimately control the clock and the timing of the final decision. […]
Courtesy of our fellow neighborhood non-profit census firm Social Compact I was able to get my hands on a ‘drill down’ report for the neighborhood surrounding Eastern Market. The report delivers some very interesting facts about the population in a one mile radius around Eastern Market (H Street to the Anacostia River, the Capitol to […]
More than 12,000 people visited Eastern Market Saturday, according to volunteers working the event, partaking in activities from facepainting and hula hoop contests, to dancing, zydeco and listening to R&B – and of course, shopping. Lots of shopping. Shoppers were out in force both Saturday and Sunday, many using the celebratory bags distributed by Eastern Market Community […]