Monument Realty has created a web site for its mixed-use project on Half Street in the Ballpark District, dubbed HalfStreetDC.com. Not a lot of info there right now (at least nothing that JDLand devotees don't already know!), but there's a contact form to fill out if you're interested in getting information from them as the project progresses. There's also a spiffy rendering showing their vision for Half Street, as seen (I believe) from N Street looking north toward M. They were also kind enough to pass along to me a nice version of the rendering of the 55 M Street office building that will sit atop the expanded Navy Yard Metro station, and I've added that to my Monument Half Street page as well. (I had a cruddy version of this same rendering posted for the past week or so, nice to replace it with something decent!) My post from last week about the zoning hearing on this project also has more information.

I almost forgot my own anniversary! It was on January 19, 2003 (a beautifully clear but cold day) that I made Mr. JD drive me around Near Southeast while I shot a bunch of pictures out the passenger window, which I then posted on the web to show the two or three people who visited JDLand. Little did I know that that little excursion would turn into the monster time-waster that we all know and love today as the Near Southeast DC Redevelopment web site. Here are pictures that I took on that day, and you can see how some locations have changed a lot, but how many others still look pretty much the same. We'll see what those look like four years from now, I guess (if I'm not renting a suite at St. Elizabeth's by that point).

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