Looking Back at 2016 – A List of Capitol Hill Corner’s Top Posts from 2016
by Larry Janezich
Below is a list of some of Capitol Hill Corner’s top stories from 2016. For 12 photos from the past year, visit the “Life on Capitol Hill” feature on the Home page, or click here: http://bit.ly/2co2uUs
Jan 7 Capitol Hill’s Proposed Southeast Boulevard: Up to Ten Years and $190 Million
Jan 9 Hill East Residents Confront City Proposed Substance Abuse Recovery Center
Jan 11 Tree Mansion Has Archibald Walk Up in Arms
Jan 20 ANC6B Signs off on Major Retail/Residential Project at 1401 PA Avenue – NY Pizza Site
Feb 3 New Indi Bookshop Opening Near Eastern Market
Feb 25 First Images of Frager’s Site Development – Store, Condos, Retail
March 17 Results Closes and Reopens Under New Management
Mar 21 Demolition Begins on Buchanan School Site
Mar30 ANC6B Signs Off on Watkins Alley Development
March 30 Capitol Hill’s SE Safeway Slated for Redevelopment
April 3 First Lady Lunches at Radici Near Eastern Market – Photo Essay
April 13 ANC6B signs Off on Latest Frager’s Design – Photos and Floor Plan
April 16 &pizza Back on Track after Mea Culpa and Stinging Rebuke by ANC6B
April 21 Meeting Tonight on Hill East Carjacking and & Violent Crime Spike
April22 Nana Thai Restaurant on Barracks Row to Close in June
April 28 Mayor Bowser Launches Rat Riddance Initiative on Capitol Hill
April 30 First Look at Concept for 3rd Development Near SE Safeway – Bowie Site
June 6 Matchbox Abandons Plan to Expand on Barracks Row & Closes DC-3 Hot Dogs
June21 Shotgun House and Frager’s Garden Center Sold – 120 Apartments Coming
June 29 Phase I looks Closed for Good
June 30 Hill East Residents Vent About Open Air Drug Market and Gunfight at 17th and Independence
July 1 First Images for New Shotgun House and Capitol Courts’ Micro Apartments on PA Ave SE
July 8 Work Starts on 49 Unit Condo Project at 11th and I Streets, SE (Kipling House) – Latest Rendering
July 12 ANC6B Signs Off on Revised Plan for Preserving the Shotgun House – First Look at New Design
July 15 Shakespeare’s Barracks Row Rehearsal Space Wants to Be Retail/Office/Residential. But…
July 21 Andromeda Hill East Mental Health Clinic in Hill East to Open Over Protest of ANC Commissioners
Aug 1 SER Spanish Restaurant Looks Like It’s Opening Outlet Near Eastern Market
Sept 7 First Images of the Design Concept for Watkins Elementary School Modernization Project
Sept 10 DC Restaurateur Xavier Cervera Back as Owner of Eight Capitol Hill Restaurants
Sept 14 Mayor Offers Hope on Hill East Boys and Girls Club Development
Oct 12 Developer Selected for Capitol Hill SE Safeway
Oct 19 Barrack Row’s &pizza Opens
Oct 22 Free Charging Station/WiFi at Eastern Market Metro Plaza – “Soofa Bench”
Oct 24 Capitol Hill SE Safeway Development – Up to 320 Apartments Planned
Nov 2 Developer Says Capitol Hill SE Safeway To Be Closed for Two Years
Nov 11 Restaurants and the Community – the Bad, the Good, and the Recalcitrant
Nov 15 Hine Update – Tenants Move into North Building in January
Nov 16 Chik-Fil-A – MD Ave NE Opens in March 2017
Nov 18 – Hill East Boys and Girls Club Development Back on Track – Photo Essay
Nov 21 Capitol Quarter Community Center – Key to Mixed Income Community – A Ship without a Captain
Nov 29 100 Plus Residents Turn Out for Community Meeting on Capitol Hill Shootings
Dec 14 ANC6Bs Last Ditch Battle Against Hank’s Oyster Bar on Neighbor Flooding Issue
Dec 16 – Neighbors Furious Over Barracks Row Eatery Back Alley Grease Dump
Dec 20 Update on Hine Project North Building Residential and Retail
Dec 22 Officials Brief Hill Residents on Inaugural Security, Safety and Protests
Dec 29 Editorial: The Shameful Washington Post Series on the Youth Rehabilitation Act
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