Advocates go to court in fight to protect protest space outside Trump hotel

Howard Theatre owes big tax bill, comes under review by attorney general

Owners of the Howard Theatre owe the D.C. government more than $260,000 in unpaid taxes and have drawn the scrutiny of the D.C. attorney general over the redevelopment project that allowed the Shaw theater to reopen three years ago, officials said. A historic landmark at 620 T St. NW, the Howard is on District government […]

New plan for West Heating Plant in Georgetown: tear the building down and start anew

The investors who purchased the Georgetown’s West Heating Plant spent two years tangling with historic preservation advocates and officials over how much of the landmark’s original structure needed to be saved as part of their plan to turn it into Four Seasons condominiums. Then they went back to the drawing board and came back with a novel […]

Washington’s top real estate developer is painting murals in your neighborhood. Is it art or marketing? Or both?

It has long been an act of rebels, activists and, indeed, criminals to plaster the walls of a city with a can of spray paint. And it remains the pursuit of outsiders who do their work out of sight or in the dead of night. Even for those who made a name for themselves in street […]

Home of Rose’s Luxury sells for $4.1 million in all-time historic flip

Many real estate investors, amateur and professional alike, have tried their hand at buying up old D.C. row houses or storefronts in order to fix them up and make a tidy profit in the process. Few have done it as well as it was done at 717 8th St. SE, a two-story brick commercial building on […]

D.C. to pay cost overruns for Wizards facility

District officials defended Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plan to spend $50 million on a sports and entertainment venue for the Washington Wizards before the D.C. Council Tuesday, saying they had agreed to pay any construction cost overruns that could arise and were still negotiating key agreements despite early missed deadlines. In September, Bowser announced the framework for a […]

Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters may actually get built

A federal spending deal reached Tuesday night by congressional leaders includes $556.7 million for the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security in Southeast D.C., indicating that President Obama and Congress may finally have a shared vision for the headquarters campus. The campus is less than half built and years behind the original schedule. In recent years […]

What $30 million gets you in Georgetown: An abandoned heating plant and the permitting headache of a lifetime

Just south of the boutiques lining M Street in Georgetown sits one of the last untouched vestiges of the neighborhood’s industrial past, the West Heating Plant. When the plant opened in 1948, clad in yellow-brown brick, it burned enough coal to pump a million pounds of steam an hour to federal buildings downtown. But left vacant for […]