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Dozens of ear-witnesses in College Park, Greenbelt and Berwyn Heights, including this journalist, reported hearing a loud, explosion-like boom in the early-morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. The noise rattled residents, who took to social media to report their experiences. As of Sunday evening, no definitive cause for the noise has been disclosed by local officials.
At its Aug. 13, 2019, meeting, College Park City Council approved a measure authorizing city staff to borrow approximately $14 million in city funds to build a new City Hall that will also share space with University of Maryland offices, as well as approximately $5 million to fund new athletic fields for Duvall Field, the city’s largest public park. In so doing, College Park City Council rejected calls from a vocal group of residents to put the matter before voters as a referendum in the city’s upcoming November municipal elections.
The Maryland State Highway Administration is currently in the process of re-designing the surface of Queens Chapel Road in Prince George’s County. The bad news: it doesn’t go far enough to enhance pedestrian or cyclist safety.
Mount Rainier City Council gathered in a special worksession last night to hash out a funding strategy for two major projects, one a renovation of a city-owned building long-dreamed to serve as a community center, the other a project to develop a public plaza on the 3300 block of Rhode Island Avenue.
A man was shot and killed in Hyattsville last week. Then, over the weekend, two mass shootings less than a day apart in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, rocked the nation. And on Monday, Hyattsville City Council gaveled into session.
Hyattsville City Council will spend $90,000 to develop an affordable housing strategy for the city.
Major commercial transactions in the Route 1 corridor in the past few months have seen hundreds of apartments – and a large senior-living facility – change hands.
Prince George’s Planning Board approved detailed plans for two major development projects along the Route 1 corridor.
College Park wants to launch its new dockless bike, e-bike and electric scooter program before the fall semester gets underway in August. There may be a hitch in the plan.
Prince George’s County Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of 20-year-old Glenn Dale resident Hosheya Smith. 23-year old Mount Rainier resident Nathaniel Thompson, Jr., who lived in a detached single-family home in the 4000 block of 37th Street, was arrested and charged with Smith’s murder, county police said in a July 24, 2019 announcement. Mount Rainier police said on Facebook Thompson was arrested July 23, 2019. County police said the shooting occurred during an attempted sale of unspecified illicit substances. Smith was fatally shot on the evening of July 10, 2019 near the intersection of 37th and Shepherd streets in Mount Rainier.
A proposed overhaul of Prince George’s County’s zoning code took a big step forward Tuesday.
A series of controversial zoning and planning decisions have raised alarms and generated pushback from residents and activists across Prince George’s County.
A developer is seeking County approval of a plan to consolidate three properties into one to build 354 apartments near the Greenbelt Metro Station,
Hyattsville City Council seems to like the general idea of a new Orlando-based brewpub chain expanding into the Mall at Prince George’s. However, they don’t like the developer’s less-than-urbanist plans for the site.