DC USA status
The DC USA building site, corner of 14th and Irving Streets, Washington DC 9march07: Girder your loins, Columbia Heights. Here it comes. Already, the only identifiable facades on this block are the Tivoli Theater and the old Riggs bank building (far right).
Target, Best Buy, and Staples are a strange fit for the neighborhood, and I'll be eager to see what it's like after the shiny new patina has worn off & it settles into an older skin... because I expect it'll have a nasty sting when it's new and immaculate, like an invading virus. The 'Heights survived the riots of '68, and it'll survive this. I hope.
DC USA status
The DC USA building site, corner of 14th and Irving Streets, Washington DC 9march07: Girder your loins, Columbia Heights. Here it comes. Already, the only identifiable facades on this block are the Tivoli Theater and the old Riggs bank building (far right).
Target, Best Buy, and Staples are a strange fit for the neighborhood, and I'll be eager to see what it's like after the shiny new patina has worn off & it settles into an older skin... because I expect it'll have a nasty sting when it's new and immaculate, like an invading virus. The 'Heights survived the riots of '68, and it'll survive this. I hope.