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A plan to redevelop four small office buildings on Hamilton Street in Hyattsville is gathering steam as developers have begun to file paperwork necessary to obtain approval from county officials to demolish the existing structures to build a six-story mixed-use development.
Leading the redevelopment project is D.B. Lee Development and Construction, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate development company behind such redevelopment projects as The Lofts at 2424 on 18th Street NW, The Erie in Adams Morgan, and Eden Condominiums on Champlain Street NW. It is currently developing a hotel and artist space at 411 New York Ave NE.
This past March, a subsidiary named Hyattsville Center Development LLC completed assembly of the properties at 4312, 4314, 4316 and 4318 Hamilton Street. They are located across the street from the northern facade of St. Jerome Catholic Church.
We take another trip on the shutdown misery express courtesy of WAMU, Washington Business Journal reports on Montgomery County’s changing economic fortunes, and a profile of a former St. Jerome educator now making waves in the national Catholic education scene. All this, and more news and views for Prince George’s County residents in our Jan. 23, 2019 edition of Required Reading!
Mere months after being sold at auction, a dilapidated apartment building once owned by a recent College Park mayoral candidate has been sold at a big markup to a new owner, state property records show.
Required Reading is a simple, daily roundup of news coverage relevant to Prince George’s County and its Route 1 communities. In our Jan. 22, 2019, edition: A murder in Beltsville, an introduction to Prince George’s newest athletic superstar, and a rundown on how Maryland legislators plan to tackle gambling.
The controversial – and not-yet realized – sale of a Metro-owned plot of land on Route 1 is part of a larger effort by the regional transit agency to capitalize on its property assets.
In our Jan. 17, 2019 edition, WTTG brings us a tragic, brief story of a pedestrian fatality in Prince George’s County’s notoriously dangerous south-county roadways. The Hyattsville Life & Times gets you up to speed on DeMatha hoops, and more after the jump.
Brentwood’s five-person Town Council is down one member. Despite a requirement in the town’s charter to fill the seat within 120 days, Town Council wants to keep the seat vacant until the May 2019 municipal election.
Greater Greater Washington dives into the economics of stadium subsidies, The Afro-American reports on Maryland’s new “red flag” law, Bisnow briefs the rising rents across the region and we take look inside Laurel Park’s new offering for gamers.
Hundreds of renters in Riverdale Park have a new owner as multiple apartment complexes trade hands in a single transaction. A bit further north, a court auction results in the sale of industrial land near Greenbelt Station. For different reasons, they are two notable commercial real estate transactions to enter the record from the past quarter in Prince George’s County’s Route 1 communities.
A primer on a lawsuit against Prince George’s County corrections officers, more reaction to the ever-longer government shutdown, and a look at a fight over the minimum wage brewing in Annapolis.
I hope you all had a warm and wonderful snow-filled weekend. Here’s hoping it doesn’t put too much of a damper on your early-week plans.
An overview of the political winds tilting against Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to widen the Beltway. We also have a smattering of weather-response stories from news outlets around the region.
While there are concerns about density and other issues, Greenbelt’s City Council seems cautiously supportive of a proposed redevelopment for Beltway Plaza.
Required Reading is a simple, daily roundup of news coverage relevant to Prince George’s County and its Route 1 communities. In our Jan. 11, 2019, edition: Details of a Capital Bikeshare expansion in Greenbelt; Delays in Purple Line construction; How a government shutdown affects a new Hyattsville distillery, and more stories after the jump: