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DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments! Penn Quarter – The Record Fair comes back to DC. In fact, it will be in our very own neighborhood at [...]
There Are Many Like It But This One Is Mine
We’ve been car-share members for a long time. First with FlexCar, and then later ZipCar when the two companies merged. For years and years we loved trying out fun cars (“let’s get a Mini convertible today!”), or the newest space-age fuel efficient cars (“let’s try one of those hybrids today!”), or a fast, luxurious car [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments! Ed. Note (2/1): The ANC2C meeting (as opposed to the full ANC) is this evening at 6:30 pm, per Urbaniste’s comments [...]
Chinese New Year Parade Roundup *video*
We don’t think we’ve seen as many people at Washington DC’s Chinese Lunar New Year parade as we did yesterday, but we were disappointed that the local network TV news outlets filed no video stories that we could find. In addition to VOA’s piece above, the Washington Post and the Washington Times filed stories along [...]
Plans And Timeline For Old YWCA Building (9th & G St NW)
Photo courtesy of Rockpoint Group website DCMud broke the news that the YWCA building at the southwest corner of 9th & G St NW will be demolished sometime around June 2012. In its place, a 112,000 square foot LEED-GOLD certified building will be built. It is uncertain how the planned construction will affect the residents [...]
CORRECTED & UPDATED: Local Vine Cellar Coming To PQ
Correction & Update: Apparently we need to visit our Optometrist because the soon to open wine & spirits store is called “The Local Vine Cellar” not wine cellar. Our apologies to the owner! Armed with that info we found their website which lists an opening in February, as well as this Prince of Petworth post [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments! Mount Vernon Triangle – BicycleSpace announces their new location on 7th Street NW and still in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood [...]
Threat Of Penn Quarter Light Pollution Looms Large
Ed. Note: The hearing referenced below scheduled for Monday, January 23 has been canceled. It’s happening again. A business in Penn Quarter is thinking that bigger, brighter, and bolder is better for the neighborhood. Normally, this might be true but in this case allowing for lit displays unrestricted in size and subjectively regulated in brightness [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments! Penn Quarter – It’s confirmed! Formerly a Kemp Mill Records, Funxion a cafe/nightclub at 1309 F St NW, will be replaced [...]
CityCenterDC Construction Update
CityCenterDC, the huge project at the northwest corner of 9th & H St NW, seems to be coming along nicely. Workers continue building the various floors of the underground parking garage that will hold 1,555 cars!
