Posts tagged 5333 Connecticut
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Eric Colbert releases new renderings for 5333 Connecticut
Architects Eric Colbert and Associates shared renderings of the latest design for their proposed apartment building at 5333 Connecticut Avenue. Few renderings of the project have been available until now, so it’s been difficult to understand how it will look. Keep reading…
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Fight over 5333 Connecticut reveals dysfunctional process
After decades of fighting, work began last month on a new residential building at 5333 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase. While neighbors had few good reasons to oppose it, the project embodies the loopholes developers use in DC’s patchwork of building regulations and zoning. The 261-unit building has long been approved as matter-of-right. It will not be a great building,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation and civil rights
Transportation can create opportunity; Gray speaks on DC statehood; DC from 1963 to 2013; More traffic cameras in DC; Fairfax County searches for Silver Line funding; Olympics could spur transit development; ANC supports 5333 Connecticut changes; Tiber Creek not an ordinary stream; UberX not illegal for long?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cool enough for Olympics?
DC for 2024 Olympics?; Touting benefits of hosting Olympics; DC unveils “cool” new marketing campaign; DC area still ranks high for meetings; Residents still unhappy with 5333 Connecticut; Suspicions confirmed?; Laurel mixed-use to promote art; Easy way to protect cyclists?; Something smells; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay in your lane
MoCo bus lanes get a yes; HOT lanes’ cool reception; Parking cents in Bethesda; Cyclists under attack; Alexandria’s “trolley” defended; What school will go to St. E’s?; 5333 gets permits; Gray: I’m energetic!; And…. Keep reading…
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Cafritz presents Chevy Chase building to skeptical neighbors
“This neighborhood doesn’t need any revitalizing,” said one resident who lives near 5333 Connecticut Avenue, NW, throwing back into developer Jane Cafritz’s face a newspaper quote where she said the proposed glassy, 9-story, 263-unit residential building would revitalize the neighborhood. Hearing this, the crowd of Chevy Chase DC residents,… Keep reading…