How a DC neighborhood was marketed to white millennials.

A hilarious must read.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bl ... d74dd8a10f

Sounds like the Washington Wizards and Capitals are leaving DC and their arena in the downtown/Chinatown area.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/loca ... a/3493235/

This is a bummer as that arena really brought the area up. On top of that it's one of the most urban sports venues in America and sits on top of a Washington Metro station that serves two lines. On top of that a couple of bus lines converge here.

This is the crowd watching a Stanley Cup game by the arena. You can see the building density: and it's that way on all four sides.


But just as a reminder, the Capital One center is two years younger than the Enterprise Center.

The FBI is planning to relocate from the J Edgar Hoover building. Some of the workers will move to the Ronald Reagan building, and some will relocate to suburban DC.

There's much concern about the fate of the landmark Hoover building, a classic example of Brutalist architecture. Speculation is that Trump wants it torn down and replaced with something more in keeping with his ideas of "Classic" architecture. 

https://www.archpaper.com/2025/07/fbi-r ... o+relocate+


The Hoover Building:




The Reagan Building: 

Zaha Hadid Architects, Adjaye Associates, and others answer the Trump administration’s call to overhaul Dulles International Airport
https://www.archpaper.com/2026/01/zaha-hadid-adjaye-associates-grimshaw-dulles-international-airport/

My Philadelphia-based company just broke ground on a 532-unit, 600,000 SF vacant office conversion in Downtown DC. The Bowser admin is serious about adding residents to downtown, 15,000 by 2028, and has the incentives to help make projects like ours happen. It is a lesson in supply and demand: build it, and they will come. Makes you think what incentive programs we could implement locally to get developers more bullish on downtown STL specifically.




A couple of articles below, if you're interested:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... he-geneva/
https://www.connectcre.com/stories/dcs- ... ks-ground/

Elek.borrelli wrote: ↑

1:55 AM - Jan 27

My Philadelphia-based company just broke ground on a 532-unit, 600,000 SF vacant office conversion in Downtown DC. The Bowser admin is serious about adding residents to downtown, 15,000 by 2028, and has the incentives to help make projects like ours happen. It is a lesson in supply and demand: build it, and they will come. Makes you think what incentive programs we could implement locally to get developers more bullish on downtown STL specifically.




A couple of articles below, if you're interested:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... he-geneva/
https://www.connectcre.com/stories/dcs- ... ks-ground/

DC actually has the regional economy and growth rates to support 15,000 new residents. St. Louis not so much.

Yea and downtown has like 500-800 new units since 2020 and all it's resulted in is skyrocketing rent and skyrocketing vacancy rates.

Supply side works in theory but not in practice.

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chris fuller wrote: ↑

9:03 PM - Jan 26

Zaha Hadid Architects, Adjaye Associates, and others answer the Trump administration’s call to overhaul Dulles International Airport
https://www.archpaper.com/2026/01/zaha-hadid-adjaye-associates-grimshaw-dulles-international-airport/

Hoping our new concourse at Lambert is tall and wide like the ones here.  With the planes packed in on both sides, I hope they leave plenty of room for food and shopping stores.  If we are ever a major hub again, the terminal needs to be a shopping mall for folks stuck there a couple of hours.  And a work center with plenty of space and internet plugs and bandwidth for work-from-airport.

^Eegads, that's awful! Saarinen's masterpiece will be largely obscured airside, completely obscured landside, and almost completely obscured inside by a completely banal cluster of unremarkable shopping kisosks . I sincerely hope this proposal is tossed into the appropriate file and then flushed out for processing.