Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

The city did a plan for the area around 2003. My line was that it was a plan based on the late 1990s, and when DC resurged beginning with the election of Anthony Williams in 1998, the recommendations were out of date. This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward.

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