D.C.'s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development has chosen two development teams to transform a pair of vacant properties into mixed-use development under the pilot OurRFP project.
Washington City Paper by Andrew Giambrone
An empty school in Ivy City that was founded in 1911 and served the District's black students until 1972 is slated to become a community center surrounded by more than 300 apartment units, industrial space, and businesses.
View the Northwest One Request for Proposals - Q & A.
Street Sense by Mark Rose
On Sept. 22 at a community meeting at Bethesda Baptist Church in Northeast, two land developers and the non-profit agency Empower DC presented proposals to D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development about how to develop the historic and currently vacant Crummell School. The school, named after educator Alexander Crummell, was built in the Ivy City neighborhood of Northeast in 1911 to educate African-American children.
GlobeSt. by Erika Morphy
WASHINGTON, DC–The District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency has issued $6.10 million in long term and $10.73 million in short term tax exempt bonds that will serve as acquisition and construction financing for a $34.9 million affordable housing project in Ward 7.
The developer is a joint venture partnership between Pennrose Properties and The Warrenton Group called Deanwood Hills LLC.
DCist by Christina Sturdivant
More than five years after the flags came down at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed an agreement today that returns 66 acres of the 110-acre campus to the District.
WTOP by Megan Cloherty
D.C. is now officially 66 acres larger after the U.S. Army formally transferred some of the land that once housed the Walter Reed campus to the District Wednesday.
More than a decade after the Army announced its base closure plan, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cheered the transfer of land in Upper Northwest as an opportunity to bring thousands of jobs and business opportunities to the area.
Washington Business Journal by Michael Neibauer
D.C. United and neighboring landowners have reached an “agreeable solution” to improve the Buzzard Point stadium design, avoiding one potential hiccup in the ongoing zoning process.
View the Walter Reed Army Center Visitation Guidelines
Washington City Paper - Andrew Giambrone
