Decode the interstates: What highway numbers actually mean
Sep 12, 2019 · Major two-digit interstates (the fives and zeros) have unique numbers; there’s only one highway named I-95, only one I-70, etceteras. But the smaller two-digiters can repeat as long as they’re far apart from each other. For example, there are separate I-76s in Pennsylvania and Colorado, and separate I-87s in New York and North Carolina.
Greater Greater Washington
By Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director) October 17, 2024. Washington region sees big increase in office leasing volume. Northern Virginia and DC are seeing a big increase in office leasing activity; in DC’s case, the square footage leased outpaces 2019’s pre-pandemic levels while Northern Virginia has seen a 49% year-over-year jump.
Gentrification is beneficial on average, studies say. That doesn’t …
Aug 6, 2019 · Nick Finio is the Associate Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning. His dissertation is focused on gentrification in the DC area and elsewhere. At NCSG, he works on a variety of projects, including Purple Line …
The Area Median Income (AMI), explained – Greater Greater …
Sep 1, 2016 · In the Washington region, the AMI is $109,200 for a family of four. Because the metropolitan region includes some of the country’s wealthiest suburbs, this is among the highest AMIs in the country. The table below reports the median income for families of various sizes in our metropolitan region. Because family incomes differ by the number of ...
How school boundaries and feeder patterns shape DC’s housing …
Sep 2, 2022 · McKinley Technology STEM Campus, Washington, DC. Image by Ted Eytan licensed under Creative Commons.. This article is part of a limited series exploring the history, current policies, and intersections between school boundaries and feeder patterns in DC’s public schools and land use, housing, and transportation issues.
Why pedestrian deaths in the US hit a record high in 2021
Jun 2, 2022 · This article was first published in Streetsblog. Pedestrian death rates climbed to a 40-year high in 2021, but experts say the factors driving the national traffic violence crisis emerged far earlier — and that policymakers urgently need to confront them. A staggering 7,485 pedestrians died on US roads last year according to new estimates ...
Maryland’s MARC plan promises better rail service
Dec 1, 2023 · The MARC system is a crucial economic tool, per the cornerstone plan, with over 1.4 million jobs within a 30-minute walk or transit trip of Penn Line stations, and over 1.3 million jobs that same distance from each of the Brunswick and Camden lines. Expanding service would be a boon to tourism, Frieder said. On the Brunswick line, “Frederick ...
Then and Now: The Metropolitan Club – Greater Greater Washington
May 27, 2009 · History History By Kent Boese (Guest Contributor) May 27, 2009 2. Then (left): Ca. 1922, the Metropolitan Club on the southwest corner of I and 17th Streets. At the time, the four story structure dwarfed the surrounding buildings. Now (right): While little has changed with the Metropolitan Club itself, the buildings around it now dwarf the club.
Why vacant homes won’t solve our housing shortage
Jul 31, 2019 · Abandoned houses and tumbleweed in Marktown, a neighborhood in East Chicago, Indiana. Image by the author. One frequently-heard retort to any call to allow more housing construction is a single statistic: There are 17 million vacant houses, more than 30 for every American experiencing homelessness during the 2018 Point-In-Time survey. While those vacant houses do exist, they exist for ...
How corporate tax incentives work and why cities spend so much …
Jun 26, 2018 · While corporations are often treated like people in the legal system, they don’t get taxed like people. A sole proprietorship, which is a single-person company, normally gets taxed at a 15% rate. If you make $100, you owe $15 to Uncle Sam. Corporations get taxed at higher rates (formerly 35% and now 21%), though there are many, many ways to ...