Urban Turf profile on Van Ness: Redevelopment with a community-oriented focus

Van Ness isn’t going to “become the city’s next hip commercial strip,” concludes Urban Turf in its new profile of the Van Ness commercial strip. “[W]hile the last decade has seen the blooming of popular business corridors along 14th Street and other thoroughfares further east, the redevelopment happening here has a different, more community-oriented focus.”

Reporter Zak Salih spoke to Van Ness Main Street’s Theresa Cameron and Forest Hills Connection’s Marlene Berlin about the community-led efforts to revitalize Van Ness. And like so many projects Marlene is part of, it begins with a walk.

The 2012 walk that started it all, led by the Coalition for Smarter Growth. Van Ness Square, shown here, has since made way for Park Van Ness.

Read the neighborhood profile at dc.UrbanTurf.com.