I played cat-and-mouse with the clouds today and took some photos of the progress in the third block of
Capitol Quarter, where the townhouses have sprung up pretty quickly over the past six weeks, meaning that St. Paul's Church at Fourth and I (above) and the private homes along Fifth Street are no longer the lonely outposts they've been since late 2004.
So that your computers (and my server) don't collapse, here are the (separated) links of these new befores-and-todays, which take you on a walk around the block:
Fourth and Virginia,
Fourth and I,
Fourth and K,
Fifth and K, and
Fifth and Virginia. You'll also see on the
northwest corner of Fourth and I that the concrete foundations are now being poured for the fourth and final block of Capitol Quarter's first phase.
It will be five years ago next week that the demolition began on the blocks where all these new townhouses are going up; paging through the
photos I took during November 2004 while the wrecking crews worked, it in some ways seems a lot longer than that. The eastward view along K at Fourth is a pretty good representation of what these blocks have been through:
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Jay says: (Oct 26, 2009 03:00 PM)
Just another manic Sunday... :-)
G Street - pothole central says: (Oct 27, 2009 04:44 PM)
Are these selling?
Sigh... I miss the crime-ridden open air (24-7) drug market that once was this neighborhood.
Rick Deon says: (Oct 27, 2009 07:19 PM)
G Street - Seriously? Selling...Dude, they're all sold out. Where have you been?
I ST says: (Oct 29, 2009 12:38 PM)
Phase 2 homes at Capitol Quarter should become available in summer 2010.
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