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City will study RFK Stadium options in wake of soccer deal

City will study RFK Stadium options in wake of soccer deal


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By Mike DeBonis
Washington Post
August 2, 2013

"The recent announcement of a tentative $300 million deal between Mayor Vincent C. Gray and the D.C. United soccer team may not be a stadium deal as much as a stadiums deal.

The agreement, should it come to fruition, would result in a new 20,000-seat home for the team in the Buzzard Point area of Southwest Washington. But it would also have major implications for the team’s current home: 52-year-old RFK Stadium, which would be left without an anchor tenant and with significant questions about its future.

The city authority that operates the aging former home of Redskins football and Senators and Nationals baseball says in the wake of the United deal that it plans to study options for replacing the stadium and redeveloping its 190-acre site..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...751_story.html
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Housing Authority Redevelopment to Include Residential Component, Satellite Office

Housing Authority Redevelopment to Include Residential Component, Satellite Office

Posted by Aaron Wiener
Aug. 5, 2013
Washington City Paper


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"Earlier today, I reported that the D.C. Housing Authority was looking to redevelop its obsolete NoMa headquarters. Now I've obtained the developer solicitation released today by the Housing Authority, so I can provide more details.

The request for qualifications seeks responses from developers by Sept. 19. It calls for a mixed-use development on the site at 1133 North Capitol St. NE, with a residential component and office space for the Housing Authority, in addition to construction of a separate facility for the Housing Authority's public services elsewhere in the city..."

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/b...ellite-office/
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2013, 8:59 PM
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Wonder Bread factory

Urban Turf has posted some photos of the converted Wonder Bread factory in Shaw.

http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...ompletion/7422
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Just Across Town, a Test of Obama’s Emissions Goals

I hope this turd gets torn down and redeveloped (like the coal-fired plant on the Alexandria waterfront). Aside from the global warming and air quality issues of coal, this is an extremely inefficient and poor use of land that is a ten minute walk from three metro stations. Good riddance!

Just Across Town, a Test of Obama’s Emissions Goals

By ERIN BANCO
August 8, 2013
New York Times


The Capitol Power Plant is the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation's capital. (Image courtesy of the New York Times)

"WASHINGTON — As part of the climate change agenda he unveiled this year, President Obama made a commitment to significantly reduce the federal government’s dependence on fossil fuels. The government, he said in a speech in June at Georgetown University, “must lead by example.”

But just two miles from the White House stands the Capitol Power Plant, the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation’s capital and a concrete example of the government’s inability to green its own turf.

The plant, which provides heating and cooling to the sprawling Capitol campus — 23 buildings that include the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court and Congressional office buildings, in addition to the Capitol building itself — is operated by Congress, and its transition to cleaner energy sources has been mired in national politics for years. But the failure of Congress to modernize its own facility also raises questions about the Obama administration’s ability to limit emissions from existing power plants when it has not been able to do so at a government-run facility so close to home..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/us...nted=1&_r=0&hp
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Recurring theme I expressed in the Houston and Austin threads (and will follow into Dallas and Chicago too) but MORE INFILL.

WE.NEED.MORE.INFILL.

Let's get this cowtown of ours ship shape and ready to present to the world here guys.
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Recurring theme I expressed in the Houston and Austin threads (and will follow into Dallas and Chicago too) but MORE INFILL.

WE.NEED.MORE.INFILL.

Let's get this cowtown of ours ship shape and ready to present to the world here guys.
Huh? Have you not looked around? There is infill everywhere you look in DC. Just about every other block has a tower crane on it.
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Huh? Have you not looked around? There is infill everywhere you look in DC. Just about every other block has a tower crane on it.
Yes, impressive infill for cities in the United States.

Let's start mirroring Toronto, Shanghai, etc. That would make me happy. 1 million people in the district within 20 years (I know, for American growth standards, a complete pipe dream) is what I want.

I'm hard to make happy, I want more. I'm obsessed with more. I need more. I want to see MORE. Everyday, I want to see a project or two announce. Everyday.

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Yes, impressive infill for cities in the United States.

Let's start mirroring Toronto, Shanghai, etc. That would make me happy. 1 million people in the district within 20 years (I know, for American growth standards, a complete pipe dream) is what I want.

I'm hard to make happy, I want more. I'm obsessed with more. I need more. I want to see MORE. Everyday, I want to see a project or two announce. Everyday.

/rant
Toronto is booming with infill now, but was far behind cities like DC, for example, in terms of dense, urban development for decades... instead existing as a largely suburban city with a terribly planned downtown and large acreage of surface parking.

And, I've been to Shanghai... no tank you.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the inside the beltway population (300 sq miles say) could grow by 1 MM in 20 years, if present trends continue and land like Potomac Yards, the military bases, walter reed, etc is repurposed.
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I'm hard to make happy, I want more. I'm obsessed with more. I need more. I want to see MORE.
Sounds pornographic.

BTW, take it up with Congress. It's their Height Act, their silly parking lots, their sprawl subsidies, their prohibitions on commuter taxes and tolls.
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people rail against the height act, but it'll almost certainly push development into different hoods in the district, pushing up heights and density outside the immediate federal core, and adding huge value to development properties even some way off. this sort of development will lead to employment centers throughout the district and bring transit improvements as the city becomes increasingly multi-polar. as long as demand remains relatively constant, dc is one track for a neighborhoods revival outdone by only nyc in the usa. that said, there's a lot of value loss to arlington, a terrible place for transit and walking.
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It is nice to see all the development in town (and Nova and MD too). Its amazing how quickly a six story building can integrate quickly in to the rowhouse neighborhoods.
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people rail against the height act, but it'll almost certainly push development into different hoods in the district, pushing up heights and density outside the immediate federal core, and adding huge value to development properties even some way off. this sort of development will lead to employment centers throughout the district and bring transit improvements as the city becomes increasingly multi-polar. as long as demand remains relatively constant, dc is one track for a neighborhoods revival outdone by only nyc in the usa. that said, there's a lot of value loss to arlington, a terrible place for transit and walking.
Is Arlington really that bad? Crystal city, I can see, but otherwise it's a textbook transit suburb no?
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Is Arlington really that bad? Crystal city, I can see, but otherwise it's a textbook transit suburb no?
The Rosslyn-Ballston corridor is one of the best examples nationwide for smart growth and transit-oriented development.
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people rail against the height act, but it'll almost certainly push development into different hoods in the district, pushing up heights and density outside the immediate federal core, and adding huge value to development properties even some way off. this sort of development will lead to employment centers throughout the district and bring transit improvements as the city becomes increasingly multi-polar. as long as demand remains relatively constant, dc is one track for a neighborhoods revival outdone by only nyc in the usa. that said, there's a lot of value loss to arlington, a terrible place for transit and walking.
I agree with you about the Height Act. After Reservation 13 and the RFK site are fully developed, than raise the Height Act. Unless, of course, the height of buildings is only raised in certain areas and Reservation 13 is included in one of those areas.
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Yes, impressive infill for cities in the United States.

Let's start mirroring Toronto, Shanghai, etc. That would make me happy. 1 million people in the district within 20 years (I know, for American growth standards, a complete pipe dream) is what I want.

I'm hard to make happy, I want more. I'm obsessed with more. I need more. I want to see MORE. Everyday, I want to see a project or two announce. Everyday.

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Close your eyes, take a deep breath and then a take VERY LONG walk around DC. Let me how much infill development you discover.
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Spring Valley

Construction has started on the new American University law school located at Tenley Circle, right off of Wisconsin Avenue. We were inquiring amongst ourselves about what will happen with the large American University Washington College of Law building on Mass. Ave. when AU's law school relocates. Most attention in Ward 3 is focused on Connecticut or Wisc Ave but Spring Valley has a lot of potential.

There is a lot of existing retail in Spring Valley. There are also a lot of large surface parking lots (49th Street/Mass., next to Crate & Barrel, Wagshal's lot). I can't imagine with land being as expensive as it is, that these are going to stay as surface lots forever. The surface lot behind the building on Mass/49th Street is absolutely enormous.

There is also several parks in the immediate Spring Valley neighborhood and the service/slip lane that could be repurposed as something else.

At the very least, there should be a Capital Bikeshare station either at the Spring Valley commercial district or the AU building. This is exactly the type of neighborhood with limited transit-service, that Capital Bikeshare is great for.

I don't know if the Welsey Seminary theologians bike but it will certainly help reduce vehicle trips with the AU expansion.
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Kastles Stadium Leaves the Wharf

Hopefully King Ribs can remain at its current location for a long time.

Kastles Stadium Leaves the Wharf

"In a sign that construction may begin at The Wharf sometime before next July, Kastles Stadium at The Wharf has been dismantled. The stadium has been a fixture at 9th and Water streets for the past three seasons and all that's left now are the lights and ticket window. Before the stadium opened in 2011, Hogates/H2O nighclub was located at that corner. By 2016, the site will become an office building and an Intercontinental Hotel with ground level retail. The office building will front Maine Avenue and the hotel will face the wharf and Washington Channel..."

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Carlos Gray, mayor’s son, is partner in ballpark-area venture

Maybe I am just getting old/boring but we already have the Skyline hotel pool rave/dance party every Sat-Sun and the Fairgrounds. This seems like enough large outdoor venues in this neighborhood.


Carlos Gray, mayor’s son, is partner in ballpark-area venture

By Mike DeBonis
August 19, 2013
Washington Post


The Florida Rock site awaits an ambitious mixed-use development. But first, kickball. (Katherine Frey / The Washington Post)

"Plans for a sprawling temporary entertainment complex next to Nationals Park featuring kickball fields, bocce courts and alcoholic beverages have run into opposition from neighbors and police. And the prominent name of one of the partners involved has raised some eyebrows: Vincent Carlos Gray, son of Mayor Vincent Condol Gray.

“Riverfront at the Ballpark” is planned as a temporary use for the six-acre former Florida Rock Industries site immediately south of Nationals Park until plans for a permanent mixed-use development come to fruition..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-area-venture/
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1055 Wisconsin Avenue

Here are two photos I took this past weekend of East Banc's 1055 Wisconsin Avenue development. This will have seven luxury condos and ground-floor retail. I would certainly like one of these condos.





Here is a rendering of the development, courtesy of East Banc:

http://mobile.eastbanc.com/project/view/62/
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