Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
UDC is getting the keys to 4250 Connecticut Avenue. After negotiations with the building’s owner, Bernstein Management, the university “executed a long-term lease agreement with a purchase option.” With the Student Center, “[i]t transforms Connecticut Avenue into a new gateway for UDC,” said UDC President Ronald Mason in a December 19th statement. Once UDC’s Board […]
Plans by 4250 Connecticut’s owner, Bernstein Management Company, to lease retail space and to upgrade building facade have ceased as the University of the District of Columbia pursues a lease-purchase of the property. UDC is seeking the DC Council’s approval first for a three-year master lease, then capital budget funding for purchase. Troy LeMaile-Stovall, the […]
While many movies seek to provide a simple escape from reality, the UDC Firebird Film Festival’s stated mission is “to be an innovator in educating and encouraging social, cultural, economic and political awareness amongst the UDC student body and D.C. community.” This year’s festival, which runs from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4, centers on a […]
UDC is in negotiations with Bernstein Management Corporation that could give the university control of the office and retail space at 4250 Connecticut Avenue. Troy Lemaile-Stovall, UDC’s chief operating officer, explained at the September 17th meeting of ANC 3F that UDC’s buildings are overdue for modernization, and the university needs swing space. Building 41 is […]
The new, temporary home of DC Public Library’s DC history archive opens at 4340 Connecticut Avenue on Tuesday, September 11th. The UDC Law building will be home to the Washingtoniana Collection until the MLK Library renovation is completed in fall 2020. The Washingtoniana Collection’s hours are: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays […]
The University of the District of Columbia Community-Campus Task Force meets quarterly on issues of importance to the campus and the community. The agenda for the next meeting, on Thursday, June 28th, includes Murch Elementary’s move from its temporary trailers on a UDC soccer field and the DC Public Library Washingtoniana Collection’s move to temporary […]
Parents of preschoolers in-bounds at Murch, Janney and other Ward 3 schools have learned over the years that the District’s “universal pre-K” is anything but universal. There’s often more demand than space in their neighborhood school’s pre-K4 classes. And for the three-year-old set, pre-K3 has been non-existent at Ward 3 public elementary and charter schools. […]
If you are walking by the UDC law school at 4340 Connecticut Avenue sometime in the next couple of weeks, take a moment to go inside. In the lobby, in a box, is a reproduction of a cell used in prisons for solitary confinement. The cell is open to visitors today through Sunday, March 18th […]
Can Van Ness successfully support more retail and restaurants? According to a new retail viability study for the area, it most certainly can. “This retail study clearly demonstrates what we believed about the Van Ness corridor when we purchased 4250 Connecticut – that it has the potential to be a dynamic and vibrant area and […]
Most of UDC’s buildings are more than 40 years old. Their heating and cooling systems are showing their age – and rendering UDC’s largest building unusable. Thomas E. Redmond, UDC’s director of State and Local Affairs, tells Forest Hills Connection that the school is “completely abandoning” Building 41, which houses UDC’s College of Arts and […]
