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New Tour Technology and a Power Plant-Turned-Brewery: The Latest Look at Walter Reed
Nena Perry-Brown | July 19th 2019
As The Parks at Walter Reed development begins to take shape, one of its components is offering a glimpse into the future. ... read »
The DC Area is One of the Only Places Where Tech Wages Grow Faster than Rent
Nena Perry-Brown | March 29th 2019
A recent Rent Cafe report shows rental housing is getting less affordable for those who work in tech. ... read »
Do Renters Have the Right to a Physical Key?
Nena Perry-Brown | March 25th 2019
A group of residents are suing the owner of their Manhattan multi-family building to demand the right to opt out of a keyless entry system. ... read »
MIT Applies the Trolley Problem to Driverless Cars
Nena Perry-Brown | October 26th 2018
As the prospect of sharing the road with self-driving vehicles becomes increasingly real, people worldwide were asked to grapple with a moral... read »
Waze Adding Carpool to the Ways You Can Get Around
Nena Perry-Brown | October 10th 2018
As of today, Waze carpools are available nationwide. ... read »
The Houses That Robots Built in DC
Nena Perry-Brown | August 31st 2018
Comprised of prefabricated panels constructed in a robotics factory, the Farmhouse Modern project in the Palisades is heavy on the "modern". ... read »
The Best Furnishings For a Studio Apartment: Automated Furniture
Nena Perry-Brown | December 19th 2017
Considering how popular micro-units and shared living arrangements have become over the past couple of years, it stands to reason that the way we... read »
The Future is Here: Adaptable Housing for the 21st-Century Household Comes to DC
Nena Perry-Brown | November 16th 2017
While most of the nation's housing stock isn't responsive to the needs of the modern household, the National Building Museum is mounting a new... read »
How a New DC Apartment Building is Using Robotic Furniture to Maximize Space
Nena Perry-Brown | September 29th 2017
The Vintage on 16th will be one of the first apartment complexes worldwide to test Ori robotic furniture systems. ... read »
Making Room for Innovative Furniture Solutions in DC
Nena Perry-Brown | September 27th 2017
This fall, the National Building Museum will feature a 1,000 square-foot house displaying some of the latest in innovative adaptable furniture... read »
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The Fairfax Board of Supervisors unanimously approved The View at Tysons on Tuesday... read »
For months following the announcement that Amazon's second headquarters was on its wa... read »
The project will deliver some of the first new for sale multifamily units to the neig... read »
The end of a Yahoo product could put several local DC forums in jeopardy. ... read »
The DC Zoning Commission will consider an amendment to the zoning code later this mon... read »
- The DC Region's Tallest Building Gets a Key Approval
- Cooling Off? The Arlington Housing Market By the Numbers in September
- NoMa's 99-Unit Tribeca Condos Break Ground
- What Will the Phasing Out of Yahoo Groups Mean For DC Listservs?
- A Proposed Change Would Prohibit New Construction in DC From Blocking Solar Panels
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Turning Lemons into Lemonade
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The Vibrancy Might Take a Few Years
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Bedroom Community Gets Buzzing Cache
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Kudzu, Front Porches and Crime
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Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
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Coming Back After A Rough Year
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DC’s Most Diverse Neighborhood, But For How Long?
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Kalorama
A Posh View From Embassy Row
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LeDroit Park
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Logan Circle
Trendy Now, But Not By Accident
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Mount Pleasant
Sought-After Homes Surround Main Street in Transition
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Mount Vernon Triangle
From Seedy to Sought-After
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Palisades
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Park View
It’s Not Petworth
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Penn Quarter/Chinatown
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Petworth
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Shaw
The Duke’s Former Stomping Ground
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Shepherd Park
DC’s Garden of Diversity
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Spring Valley
A Suburb With a DC Zip Code
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Takoma
Not To Be Confused With Takoma Park
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Tenleytown
Not Quite Like Its Neighbors
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U Street Corridor
The Difference a Decade Makes
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Woodley Park
Deceptively Residential
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Adams Morgan
No Longer DC’s Hippest Neighborhood, But Still Loved by Residents
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The little quadrant that could
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Southwest Waterfront
A Neighborhood Where A Change Is Gonna Come
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Northeast DC
Profiles of 10 neighborhoods in NE
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Brookland
New Development Could Shake Up Pastoral Peace
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Deanwood
A Little Bit of Country Just Inside the District’s Borders
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Eckington
Not to Be Confused With Bloomingdale
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Fort Totten
Five Years Could Make a Big Difference
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H Street
A Place To Party, and To Settle Down
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Langdon
The Northeast Neighborhood That Few Know About
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Michigan Park
A Newsletter-On-Your-Doorstep Community
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NoMa
Evolving from a Brand to a Neighborhood
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Rosedale
Ripe for Investment Right About Now
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Trinidad
The Difference 5 Years Makes
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Woodridge
Big Houses, A Dusty Commercial Strip and Potential
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Capitol Riverfront
Still Growing
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Hill East
Capitol Hill’s Lesser Known Neighbor
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Congress Heights
Gradually Rising
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Hillcrest
Notable for Its Neighborliness
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Historic Anacostia
Future Promise Breeds Cautious Optimism
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A More European Way of Living
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