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| Northeast residents get preview of H Street Connection redevelopment plans |
VOICE writes, "by Ben Weinstein
This week, the owner of H Street Connection presented new design possibilities for the often-maligned shopping plaza.
All three design schemes centered on a nine-story residential building with ground-floor retail to replace the park-and-shop-style plaza that sits on the south side of H Street NE between 8th and 10th streets.
“Everyone would like to see that site redeveloped,” said Drew Ronneberg, chair of the Northeast Capitol Hill advisory neighborhood commission’s economic development committee. "
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Posted on Dec 02, 2007 13:54pm.
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| Partnership launched to restore National Mall |
VOICE writes, "By Hannah Rexroth
George Washington, or someone who looked a lot like him, showed up at the South Interior Building recently to celebrate a partnership to restore and preserve the National Mall where Washington’s monument stands.
“The Mall is the front yard to all Americans,” said Chip Akridge, chair of the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit group that is raising money to restore the Mall. “It sees 25 million visitors annually. If you go and take a walk on the Mall, you’ll see a park that is loved to death.”
Thirty years have passed since the Mall’s last major renovation, and the National Park Service is planning a $350 million repair and maintenance project to make it a world-class park, said Akridge. The National Park Service has partnered with the Trust for the National Mall to do the renovations.
The trust is part of the National Park Centennial Initiative that was launched last year by President George W. Bush. The initiative is a 10-year plan to restore national parks in time for the Park Service’s 100th anniversary in 2016."
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Posted on Dec 02, 2007 13:49pm.
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| Children’s museum chief arrested for distributing child porn |
VOICE writes, "By Hannah Rexroth
A National Children’s Museum employee who was recently arrested on child pornography charges was fired on Nov. 15, according to a museum statement.
Robert Singer, former chief operating officer of the National Children’s Museum, was arrested earlier this month for distributing child pornography over the Internet, the statement says.
Singer, 49, worked for four years as the museum’s spokesperson and was promoted to chief operating officer a few months ago.
“It was an administrative position,” said museum spokesperson Andrea James. “He had no contact with the children.”"
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Posted on Dec 02, 2007 13:44pm.
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| MedLink owner sues lawyers |
VOICE writes, "BEN WEINSTEIN
Capitol Hill Group, owner of the MedLink property, filed a $50 million malpractice suit against the lawyers who represented it in a zoning battle with Near Northeast residents.
The complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court, alleges Patrick Potter and Paul Tummonds Jr., of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, failed to provide Capitol Hill Group with timely information, leaving no opportunity to appeal a Board of Zoning Adjustment decision. Capitol Hill Group said because of the breach of contract, it could not adequately use or lease the property at 7th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE, resulting in about $50 million in losses, according to court documents."
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Posted on Nov 15, 2007 20:39pm.
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| Inspector General report on fire stations |
VOICE writes, "By IAN THOMS Current Staff Writer
The city's fire stations have deteriorated to the point that they pose a threat to the health and safety of firefighters, according to a report released last month by the D.C. Office of the Inspector General.
In stations throughout the city, inspectors discovered evidence of asbestos, inoperative smoke detectors, exposed electrical wiring, broken windows and damage to interior and exterior walls. They found flaws in all 31 stations that were inspected. The fireboat facility also had deficiencies. Two stations were not examined because they were under renovation.
The report concluded: "Building conditions at numerous fire stations threaten the health, safety, and comfort of FEMS employees and negatively impact the work environment and employee morale."
Battalion Chief Kenneth Crosswhite said the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services department does not have enough money to maintain the 41 buildings it oversees. He said the department has $750,000 for maintenance every year. "Does that sound like it's enough?" Crosswhite asked. "
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Posted on Nov 15, 2007 20:10pm.
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| Hill resident Reich left restoration, charity legacy |
VOICE writes, "By Hannah Rexroth
Longtime Hill resident Barbara Held Reich’s presence left the Hill a few weeks ago, but those who knew her say her neighborhood work will live on.
Reich died on Oct. 13 at age 84. Her contributions to the community helped the Hill become what it is today, said her former co-workers at Coldwell Banker.
“She saw beyond what the neighborhood was then to what it could become,” said Coldwell Banker manager Don Denton. “She was always one of the first ones to support new businesses or schools on the Hill.”
Reich was born in Harrisonburg, Va., and spent most of her early years in Georgetown. She worked in real estate and became interested in Capitol Hill in the early 1950s, when a Georgetown resident asked for her help in selling his home in order to move to Philadelphia Row. "
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Posted on Nov 15, 2007 20:01pm.
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| City officials push to bring golf courses closer to D.C. control |
VOICE writes, "By SELBY MCCASH
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced legislation last week calling for stronger local control over the federally owned public golf courses in the District -- two bordering Capitol Hill and a third in Rock Creek Park -- in order to "rescue" them from what she describes as a long history of neglect.
"These are historic places that are unworthy of the nation's capital in their present condition," Holmes said in an interview this week. "Federal government responsibility has never worked for these courses for nearly a century, and almost certainly it will not happen in the future."
The three golf courses are Langston Golf Course, which opened in 1939, partly on a reclaimed landfill in Northeast adjacent to RFK Memorial Stadium, to accommodate black golfers at a time when other area courses were segregated; the East Potomac Park Course, opened in 1920 on recovered marshland along the District's southern edge; and the Rock Creek Park Course, opened in 1926 in Northwest in the midst of one of the country's largest inner-city green spaces. The federal government built all three, and the National Park Service contracted the management of them to private companies."
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Posted on Nov 15, 2007 19:55pm.
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