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A Look At The Final Designs For DC's 11th Street Bridge Park

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I was on the design review committee for this initiative back in 2014--10 years ago! From DC Urban Turf.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

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," 2023 -- " DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project ," 2022 -- " The Anacostia River and considering the bridges as a unit and as a premier element of public art and civic architecture ," 2014 -- " DC has a big "Garden Festival" opportunity in the Anacostia River ," 2014 -- " A world class water/environmental education center at Poplar Point as another (..)

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argue this was because the DC side was full of hubris--we have the city's interests at the foremost they intimated, and because they failed to think in the slightest in how to make the argument about how the current residents would benefit.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? The Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. DC is at a disadvantage too, because unlike other jurisdictions, Congress forbids it from taxing non-residents. Other areas too.)