Route 1 Reporter (https://route1reporter.com/category/news/)
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.
College Park City Council approved a semi-dockless e-scooter and bikeshare program in July. But “motorized” vehicles are illegal on the county’s trail network.
College Park City Council appears poised to approve a November ballot referendum seeking citizen input on proposed changes to the city’s election calendar.
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.
A developer wants to demolish a downtown College Park shopping center on Knox Road to build 340 student apartments, according to planning documents filed with Prince George’s County.
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.