A presentation on plans to demolish UDC’s Building 41 and construct a permanent home for DC government and historical records was the main event during ANC 3F’s July 18th meeting. […]
Neighborhood in the News: New neighborhood leaders take on effort to rename the park now called Reservation 630
For decades, the park south of Tilden Street, bisected by Connecticut Avenue, was Melvin Hazen Park. Then, in 2017, Neil Flanagan wrote for the Washington City Paper about Hazen’s long-ago […]
National Capital Planning Commission throws its support behind a new home for the DC Archives at UDC
Efforts to build a new and permanent home for DC artifacts and government and historical records are gaining steam, and getting more media attention. The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) […]
Yes, MOM’s Organic Market is still opening a Van Ness store
You’ve had a lot of questions, and we now have answers about the long-delayed debut of MOM’s Organic Market at 4250 Connecticut Avenue, a UDC-owned office and retail building. In […]
Opinion: UDC Building 41 plan gets a failing grade in campus-community engagement.
Updated July 12th to add the Zoning Commission hearing date. by Mary Beth Tinker and Kesh Ladduwahetty The next two years may see the demolition of one of the largest […]
Neighborhood in the News: Black basketball’s founding father; bowling and polar bears in Van Ness; waterpark what-if
Honoring a DC sports and civil rights pioneer: If UDC has anything to say about it, more people will know E.B. Henderson’s name. And we should. Well over a century […]
School Updates: UDC picks next president; Murch gets more teachers to ease 1st and 2nd grade crowding
UDC’s 46th Commencement on May 13th served as a stepping stone for its 796 graduates (including its first Ph.D.s) and as a sendoff for outgoing president Ronald Mason Jr. Now, […]
Business in Brief: A check on incoming (and possibly incoming) Van Ness businesses; AllCare opens; Gopuff Van Ness holds art contest
Progress report on UDC’s incoming retail tenants: While checking out the May 6th “Around the World” embassy events at the UDC Student Center, we checked on the buildout of the […]
Here are the opening dates for the UDC, Sheridan and other local farmers markets
It’s the other most wonderful time of the year: When the local farmers markets return for a new season, and share their bounties of fresh produce, prepared foods, and so […]
A perk for DC public high school students: Free college classes
Forty-six of the students taking spring semester classes at the University of the District of Columbia’s Van Ness campus are not college students; they’re enrolled in DC public high schools […]