Redevelopment – Bolton Hill

The Bolton Hill Bulletin

Redevelopment

Here’s a progress report on the Streets Market hoping to open next year

A Streets Market in southeast D.C.

It was late April, a year ago. Neighbors attending the groundbreaking ceremony, for a coming Streets Market on the Bolton Hill – Reservoir Hill border, were treated to a comic performance of our mayor steering a demolition vehicle brought to the site solely for photo-op purposes. Later the equipment was hauled away and the site sat as before, an ugly remnant of an abandoned brick structure.

Reservoir Square developer wants to build more townhouses

MCB Real Estate, the developer of Reservoir Square at 700 W. North Avenue with 120 townhouses so far, is asking for community support to allow it to build 52 more single-family units where once they had planned a mixed-use office/residential/retail building. MCB Managing Partner David Bramble and several others from the firm met with Reservoir Hill and Bolton Hill community members on Dec. 1.

BHCA names working group to sort out State Center developments

BHCA President Lee Tawney named Beth Brenner, Jeff Thompson, Charlie Duff, Davin Hong and Sallye Perrin to a neighborhood State Center Working Group to keep tabs on the sometimes confusing and conflicting plans for the soon-empty campus of public buildings just south of Bolton Hill.

City has plans for fishing and entertainment venues at Druid Park Lake

Although it has been decades in the making, the city wants you to know that there is a planning process at work around future development of Druid Hill Park Lake, although no end date is yet in view.

Streets Market grocery to open on North Avenue next to Reservoir Square

In a ceremony akin to those that used to announce the circus coming to town, every elected official from near and far showed up on April 28 at a long-vacant property located across from Bolton Hill’s northeastern boundary. All came to announce the arrival, someday on this space, of a new 12,000 square-foot full-service grocery store – Streets Market.

New owners, again, for Pedestal Gardens apartments?

Pedestal Gardens, the collection of substandard low-income apartments on both the east and west sides of Eutaw Place, apparently once again has been sold – adding new uncertainly to long-standing plans and hopes for redevelopment and the construction of mixed-income housing there.

Unity@Park Avenue renovation plans to start next year

The past year has been a period of planning and fundraising for the lot renovation at the southeast corner of Park and North Avenues, all part of a project to rejuvenate the space between Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill called Unity@Park Avenue.

First of 120 new townhouses going up on North Avenue

Nearly eight years after developers David Bramble and Mark Renbaum announced their intention to build market-rate townhouses, apartments and offices off North Avenue near Bolton Hill’s northern border, construction has begun on an initial strip of residences facing Park Ave.

City forum on State Center lacked focus, but here’s what we know now

The city planning department’s late February open house for nearby residents to provide input on what to do with the soon-to-be-abandoned 18-acre State Center on Bolton Hill’s south border was, some would say, a nothing-burger.

City takes first baby steps toward planning State Center’s future

More than a year after former Gov. Larry Hogan agreed to transfer Maryland’s 28-acre State Center tract over to Baltimore City, city planners have selected an urban designer to start preparing a master plan to guide redevelopment of the property.