It's New Year's Eve, and I'm trying desperately to wring two more days of laziness out of this holiday season, but here's a couple items anyway:
* I'm not about to plunk down the $35 a month for a subscription to find out for sure, but
this BidClerk.com posting on a search for a general contractor
sounds pretty familiar: "Renovation of and a new addition to a multi-residential complex in Washington. Completed construction plans call for the construction of a six-story, 170-unit apartment building to include renovation of an existing four-story, 157,000-square-foot warehouse with a two-story, 49,000-square-foot addition above the existing roof. General contractor bids are due January 10, 2008." Could there really be that many buildings in the city other than the brown-and-white
Pattern/Joiner Shop at The Yards that would so perfectly fit that description?
* If you're driving through the intersection at
Half and I, you might be so distracted by the temporary blacktop that now cuts across the old southwest corner that you miss the new sign on the southeast corner advertising DRI/Transwestern's
Square 696 project. There's a rendering but no other details.
* The DC Foreign Car garage at 31 K (on the
1015 Half Street site) has just a few hours to become the last
demolished building of 2007. But maybe they're gunning for the honor of being the first one of 2008.