D.C. City Council honors Sustainable Energy Utility
The City Council honored the DC Sustainable Energy Utility today for its work helping D.C. residents, businesses and institutions reduce their energy costs and carbon footprints.
Built to replace Ellen Wilson housing project, townhouses are a mixed-income model
Washington, DC (November 3, 2013) – When Juanita Jones moved into her newly constructed townhouse on Capitol Hill, she kissed the floors, the walls and the doors, and hoped she would be able to afford to stay.
A look at the latest plan for redevelopment of D.C.’s Randall School
Washington, DC (June 18, 2013) – The team behind the redevelopment of the Randall School site in Southwest D.C. has submitted its latest plan for the long-delayed mixed-use project.
$18 million deal approved for Barclay revitalization
Baltimore, MD (October 10, 2012) – The city’s spending panel approved an $18 million loan agreement on Wednesday to turn hundreds of vacant houses and lots in North and East Baltimore into new and rehabbed homes.
Barclay project ‘creating the market’ for new Baltimore City homes
Baltimore, MD (April 6, 2012) – It’s difficult to walk more than a block or two through Baltimore’s Barclay neighborhood without seeing signs of construction. That’s because Washington, D.C.-based Telesis Corp. is nearing second-phase work on an $85 million project that, when finished, will reinvent the neighborhood bounded by North Avenue, Greenmount Avenue, St. Paul Street and 25th Street.
The Rubells: Art collectors with edge make D.C. their own
MIAMI — The part of Miami where Mera and Donald Rubell put their museum and home was a dangerous, ramshackle section of abandoned warehouses and rundown residences, with buildings still scarred by the 1980 race riots and streets that even the police were wary of entering.
Barclay community celebrates phase 1 of major $85 million housing makeover
Baltimore, MD (June 18, 2010) – On Monday evening, Barclay resident Connie Ross sat in the basement of Ebenezer Baptist Church on the corner of E. 23rd Street surrounded by developers and community organizers and prayed.
Museum’s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows in Washington
Selling real estate can be quite an ordeal these days, but the Corcoran Gallery of Art has found a buyer for a large piece of property in a section of southwest Washington where construction has all but stalled in the economic downturn.
History reborn: Grand opening celebrates Lowenstein renovation
Memphis, TN (March 18, 2009) – The old Lowenstein department store building is an eyesore no more. A $20 million renovation has brought the Downtown landmark at Main and Jefferson back to life after decades of abuse and neglect.
How money and policing are rebuilding East Hills
The old institutional feel of the place is gone. In Second East Hills, New York-based developer Telesis Corp. individualized the 326 units with new designs and bright colors.