Couldn't leave all these morsels until the normal Tuesday Tidbits slot:
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More Demolitions Coming: Raze permits have now been approved for the Miles Glass building at
8th and Virginia and its next-door neighbor, the closed auto repair shop at
7th and K.
National Community Church, which owns the lots and others on the same block, said
back in January that a temporary parking lot and "community green space" will be coming to the site while the church continues to work on its final plans for the site, which in the past
have been described as being a combination of coffee house, performance space, and church offices.
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Bike to Work: May 18 is DC's
Bike to Work Day. One of the
pit stops is the
Yards Park, from 7 to 9 am, and you get a t-shirt if you register and then stop at your designated pit stop.
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Bridge Recreation: If the notion of the "
11th Street Recreation Bridge" captured your fancy, you can see some additional stories on the idea by
Lydia DePillis,
BeyondDC, and
WJLA.
DePillis notes that the city isn't intending on paying for this entire thing itself, and a decision needs to be made by May whether or not the new
11th Street Local bridge will have the bulb-out viewpoints built (they'd be unnecessary if the current downstream bridge was being kept).
WJLA, on the other hand, mentions that "some" are concerned it "could become a hotbed for crime"--which led to a fun Twitter
back-
and-
forth that devolved into using the new bridge for a Jason Bourne/James Bond-type chase sequence.
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Mobile 'Hood: The Capitol Riverfront BID has launched a mobile version of its
web site, which uses your phone's GPS to give you information on food, developments, and events near your location.
And, of course, if you want to know what your current location looked like before all the changes started happening, you can go to my mobile site (
m.jdland.com) or
jdland.com/here on your phone and you'll get my oldest photos looking in each direction from the corner nearest to where you're standing. (
Read more about how that works.)
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Fairgrounds:
DCMud looks at the plans for the
Half Street Fairgrounds (which I
broke the news of back in February), with a few neat new renderings. And then the piece drops a mention at the very end that "DCRE Real Estate" is handling the retail leasing for the project--that's DCMud's company, and the writer of the blog post is also the agent handling the leasing. (Just in case you like to be aware of those sorts of things when getting your news.) In the meantime,
a few shipping containers were spotted on the site last week.