Posts tagged Campuses
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Breakfast links: Find the 9/11 memorial; imagine one for climate change
Have you heard of this memorial?; A climate change memorial for DC?; Is the SunTrust plaza “sacred”?; Purple Line appeal begins; Evans says no fare hike; Get your Tubman & Douglass SmarTrips; Loudoun, bike mecca?; What Amtrak will buy with $2.45B; Students versus homeless tenants; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The constant skyline
No height increases in L’Enfant City; Inner Harbor improvements; New development may fund housing; Microsoft is coming to St. Elizabeths; Further details emerge on FBI site; Opposition threatens King Street bike lanes; The future of retailing; HOT lanes’s first birthday; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State the obvious
Did this sign reduce automobile crashes?; The Donald Trump show; Too much affordable housing?; Few changes for Height Act; Is the NCPC wrong?; Fight over Ten Mile Creek; Bethesda bikeshare stations almost ready; DC Brau triples output; Unions will build soccer stadium; And…. Keep reading…
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Georgetown eyes satellite campus at White Oak
Georgetown University needs space to grow. Montgomery County needs a university to anchor a research and development center they want to create in White Oak. There’s a college campus for sale in the neighborhood that can satisfy them both. Jonathan O’Connell reports that Georgetown is interested in buying the National Labor College, a 47-acre campus at New Hampshire… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rolling in
Arlington chooses streetcars; Too white to be mayor?; Housing Authority looks for breach; Georgetown University comes downtown; Groupon kills business?; New York City opens remedial bike classes; And…. Keep reading…
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Is Washington falling behind on medical education and care?
Is the quality of medical education in Washington worse than in other metropolitan areas? Looking at the rankings of our medical schools compared to other regions, it seems that we’re behind. According to a number of people in the medical profession, the general consensus in the field is that DC has fewer very experienced doctors in many specialties. Primary care physicians… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drugs and gambling
Pot dispensaries inch forward; National Harbor gambling will rake it in; Council will go with Mendelson; ANC supports Hine; ZC is next; Sharrows point to nowhere; Arlington, Alexandria to join on streetcars; GU students want right to live where they wish; Detroit goes for cheap; And…. Keep reading…
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Where will Georgetown get 100 acres?
The agreement on the Georgetown University campus plan says that so long as relations go well, the parties will start discussing in 2018 some long-term goals, including one to “identify and develop next 100 acres.” The agreement doesn’t give context for this goal. Given the timing, I’d guess the purpose of this new 100 acres is to relocate the hospital… Keep reading…
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Georgetown and neighbors agree on residential campus
Georgetown University and leaders in surrounding neighborhoods have reached agreement on a groundbreaking campus plan that envisions a more residential campus. Leading universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton have adopted a similar residential college model, which integrates students’ intellectual and residential life while creating fewer impacts… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The end for Kwame
Brown resigns; Chair Mendo?; Reactions; Silver Line union preference gone; Metro works way out of way out problem; GU and neighbors agree; Anacostia’s value and brand; Bradbury foresaw future without pedestrians; And…. Keep reading…