More great news for H Street: big-time development ahead.
New H Street development
- Score yet another win for H Street. The dare-we-say trendy neighborhood that is sometimes maligned for its beleaguered street front, but just as often loved for its gritty resurgence, is closer to getting one of its biggest projects to date. The H Street Connection, a 433,000 s.f. residential and retail project that will fill two full blocks along H Street, cleared a major hurdle in its path toward District approval.
H Street neighborhood officially declared DCs “best up and coming neighborhood”.
H Street NE (credit: website)
H Street Great Street reports the many reader accolades the H Street corridor received in City Paper’s most recent poll, including Best Up and Coming Neighborhood, and award H Street received by edging out Petworth.
Meandering Ones was on the scene for a meetup one recent weekday and concur that H Street is really picking up a great vibe.
Get over there this weekend after a stop by the Tidal Basin.
The New York Times talks up Washington, DC… in 1891.
If you’ve ever wondered how the big city to the north reported on our new city on the swamp back in the late 1800s, wait no more – here’s the original article.
From our casual research we’re guessing this was the last positive thing NYT had to say about DC.
Can you blame them? I’d do the same thing if I felt continually threatened by the town where so many of my former residents have moved.
Hay-Adams Hotel may add floor and insert a restaurant with awesome, birdseye White House views.
Hay-Adams Hotel (credit: Flickr/NCinDC)
DCist reports the Hay-Adams Hotel is strongly considering adding a floor to the building and opening a restaurant in the space. If this comes to pass, average folks like us will for the first time have an opportunity to check out The White House with the same clear birdseye vantage point movie directors and the Department of Veterans Affairs Vermont Avenue bigwigs have had for decades.
Score one more for the people – er, at least one more for those willing to pay for food with a view.
Front Royal, Virginia
A great Virgnia small town that respects its heritage and still isn’t afraid to cut loose from time to time.
