Some Bates Area residents might be interested in this news regarding Third Street Church of God, located at 1246 New Jersey Avenue NW. The church wanted to bulldoze three contiguous rowhouses it owned located in the Mount Vernon Square Historic District at 1232, 1234 and 1236 4th Street NW. The issue went before the DC … More HPRB denies demo permit for 1232, 1234 & 1236 4th Str NW

Note that one of the recipients of the Gingertown confectionary campus project is So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E), which has a feeding facility on the unit block of O Street NW. DC Design Community to Build Enormous Gingerbread University November 5, 2012 A university town fashioned from gingerbread, licorice whips, gumdrops and icing will come … More S.O.M.E. to benefit from Gingerbread House project

For those of you who are following the development of the WalMart at 1st, H and New Jersey Avenue NW, just south of the Bates area, see this Washington Business Journal article.  I have included the first few paragraphs of the article.  You can click on the article title to read the entire news story. … More some 77 H St NW WalMart news

The new Washington City Paper Housing Complex reporter Aaron Wiener had produced on article on the decreasing demand for new DC construction projects to include the required minium of parking spaces. One of the development projects mentions is North Capitol Commons at North Capitol and K Street NE. I have copied in the paragraphs from … More North Capitol Commons project at North Capitol & K NE

Bates Area Residents and Adherents!  See this message regarding this Sunday afternoon`s two eating contests on the unit block of T Street NW — part of the Three Communities Festival/First on First event!  Fun times for sure.   First on First Eating Contest                  When: Sunday October 7th. Time: 5:30 pm (right after the drawing … More wing- and pizza-eating contests this Sunday, 10/7/2012

See this entry from the blog of Bates area/Truxton Circle resident Mari Maxwell: More on the Truxton Circle Project Help out Mari and provide her some insightful feedback on her neighborhood project!

See this message from LeDroit Park resident Robert Sullivan and his PortraitCityDC team: Nicole Tramonte runs Catania Bakery, which has been in the same location on the 1400 block of North Capitol Street NW since 1932.  Alfio Caruso established the bakery, and Nicole and her husband Anthony (now deceased) bought it from the Caruso family … More Portrait City DC: Catania Bakery’s Nicole Tramonte + grandson

Has it been one year already? See this announcement from Boundary Stone’s Matt Croke:                                 

See this article regarding Bates Area resident Anita Bonds: Anita Bonds, D.C. Democratic chair, eyes at-large council seat Posted at 10:43 AM ET, 09/11/2012 By Mike DeBonis

McMillan Sand Filtration site development plan followers — see this message from ANC 5C03 Commissioner Hugh Youngblood: Dear Neighbors, Howard University joins the pack as the latest organization to go on the official record with strong opposition to the plan proposed by the Vision McMillan Partners (and backed by Mayor Gray) to destroy Bloomingdale’s historic … More HU letter of opposition to Envision McMillan plan