August 15, 2021 · 11:05 pm

The Week Ahead…and Some Photos from the Past Week

The retail outlet at 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue at the tip of Jenkins Row – formerly an AT&T outlet which recently moved to the Hine project at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue – is being built out for a Bank of America.  Opening is expected in October. 
According to ANC6B07 Commissioner Edward Ryder, the applicant for a license for a liquor store at 1100 K Street, SE, has withdrawn the application.  ANC6B had voted to support a protest of the license at July’s meeting of ANC6B.
There are 11 Capitol Hill Community Gardens all of which have a waiting list for plots.  Here are the locations and photos of four of them.  This is the oldest – Hilton Community Garden, on 6th between Constitution and C Street, NE. It was named in honor of the Charles E. Hilton Elementary School located on the site 1898 – 1947.
This is Pomegranate Alley Community Garden, hidden behind Ginko Gardens at 911 11th Street, SE. 
Here’s King’s Court Community Garden in the middle of the block bounded by of 14th Street and th Street and South Carolina and C Streets, SE.
And Virginia Avenue Community Garden at 9th and Virginia Avenue, SE.  In the background is The Europa – the Murillo Malnati Group recently changed the use of what was to be a 49 unit apartment building to what will functionally be self-service hotel.  Opening soon.

The Week Ahead…and Some Photos from the Past Week

By Larry Janezich

Posted August 15, 2021

Monday, August 16

ANC6A Transportation & Public Space Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm. 

For info on how to join the meeting, go here:  https://bit.ly/3p95vNI

Among items on the agenda: 

  • Traffic Safety Assessment for 1600 block of Isherwood Street, NE. DDOT has requested that ANC6A amend its June 10, 202,1 resolution supporting TSA#21- 00168899 (1500 block of Isherwood Street, NE, and adjacent intersections) to clarify that it includes the 1600 block as well. This will allow DDOT to install speed humps on 3 continuous blocks: the 1600 and 1500 blocks of Isherwood Street, NE, and the 1400 block of Duncan Place, NE. The 1400 block of Duncan Place, NE, was covered in the April 8, 2021 ANC6A resolution supporting TSA# 20-00287735.
  • Traffic Safety Assessment(s) for 17th – 19th Street, NE, between D Street, NE, and Rosedale Street, NE.
  • Traffic Safety Assessment for 700 – 1300 blocks of I Street, NE.
  • Traffic Safety Assessment for 1300, 1400 and 1500 blocks of East Capitol Street, NE.
  • Traffic safety assessment for 300 block of 19th Street, NE.
  • Request for raised crosswalks at intersections where DDOT has indicated all-way stops are not warranted, including 14th and A Streets, NE, 15th and A Streets NE, 15th Street and Constitution Avenue, NE and 13th and I Streets, NE.

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