(This article originally appeared in the November 2020 edition of the Foxhall Community Citizens Association newsletter.) Key sites along the east end of MacArthur Boulevard are in play. A blank slate now occupies the site where a 15,000-square-foot Safeway store once stood, leaving the Palisades with no large, full-service grocery. Developers have gained approval to…
The way has been cleared to tear down the abandoned trolley trestle that spans the south end of Glover Archbold National Park. In September 2020, the Mayor’s Agent for historic preservation in D.C. issued the demolition permit sought by WMATA, which oversees the trestle and right of way. Mayor’s Agent J. Peter Byrne, who in…
Getting emptied bottles and jars back into the furnace for recreation presents a knotty quest. People’s capacity for home waste manipulation, environmental laws, market forces and logistics all play a role. But the cleaner the glass stays the better. It makes a critical difference for a beer-based program involving an Iowa distributor and a Missouri glass recycler, as well as a Minnesota container maker that might be the last still taking glass directly from the public.
Sale of Georgetown Day School’s MacArthur Boulevard campus, expected to be completed at the end of this month, has been delayed. Closing of the deal, in the works for the past 2.5 years, has been put off “a couple” or “a few” months, GDS Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Houser said today. He said the buyer…
DCPS facilities planners are eyeing the tree-studded green on the south side of the old Hardy School to build an elementary school. A 70,000- to 80,000-square-foot school is envisioned, with enrollment between 450 and 550 students, according to city and DCPS officials. Planning for the Foxhall elementary school remains fluid and community meetings are expected,…
“You have to be really lucky to see them.”
The new Foxhall school proposal jolts an already unsettled school landscape in the Palisades.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2021 budget proposal calls for building a $56 million Foxhall Elementary School on the site of the old Hardy School at Foxhall Road and Q Street. The $56,354,00, with the funding to be spread from 2023 to 2025, is to “design and construct a school facility to address Ward 3 enrollment…
Send ANC 3D grant money to other parts of city? Open up a lane of MacArthur Boulevard for pedestrians? Get the mayor to explain why masks aren’t required outside at all times? The city’s response to Covid-19 dominated ANC 3D’s meeting tonight, as commissioners eyed ways for the community to do its part to rein…
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