A few Tenleytown neighbors got to take a sneak peek inside the nearly complete Tenley View during a hard-hat tour of the building at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street.
The inaugural meeting of the 2015-2016 Tenleytown Advisory Neighborhood Commission proceeded at a fair clip, clocking in at right around two and a half hours, despite a rather lengthy agenda. The majority of the January 8 ANC 3E meeting was dedicated to presentations by PEPCO, Exelon, and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service regarding the proposed acquisition of PEPCO by Exelon.
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Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 3E rings in the new year with its first meeting of 2015 tonight at 7:30 p.m. The meeting also marks the start of a new two-year term, with incumbents Jonathan Bender and Tom Quinn returning to the commission and newly elected representatives Anne Wallace, Amy Hall, and Jonathan McHugh taking their seats for the first time. Commission officers
Read moreBack after a brief summer hiatus, Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 3E will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson High School. The agenda includes an update on the Tenley View project at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street. Recently a massive crane was erected at the site, signalling that the current phase of construction, which began in early August, is
Read moreThe Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) issued Douglas Development Corporation a building permit for the Tenley View project on August 7 – and not a moment too soon. Douglas Development released the above photograph at the end of last month showing that sheeting and shoring at the site was near completion, and the construction project was ready to enter its next phase.
Read moreFor those who never believed anything would come of the old Babe’s Billiards building until they saw it, there’s been plenty of visible proof over the last several weeks. Demolition at the Tenley View project is proceeding apace and is set to wrap in mid-June. Douglas Development recently received a sheeting and shoring permit, and work on supporting the existing structure
Read moreOn Tuesday, April 1 Douglas Development Corporation announced that Phase I of construction for the new Tenley View had begun. Neighbors, who have long awaited the redevelopment of the former Babe’s Billiards location, have been clamoring for photographic evidence of progress at the site. Douglas Development granted Tenleytown, D.C. permission to share this photo taken at the start of demolition of the
Read moreDon’t let the date fool you – this is no April Fools’ Day trick. The long awaited Tenley View project, the site of the former Babe’s Billiards and current landmark eyesore, will enter Phase I of construction on April 1, 2014. Douglas Development Corporation, in an email this week, announced that it had received a permit to begin interior demolition and
Read moreTonight’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 3E meeting will now include a presentation by Douglas Development Corporation regarding the current Tenley View project, located at 4600 Wisconsin Avenue. Douglas Development will share plans for a public space application at the former Babe’s Billiards site. Included in the application, and requiring ANC review and approval, are: special paving along Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street, an
Read moreAs promised by Douglas Development project manager Andrea Gourdine in an email earlier this month, demolition of the 4616 Wisconsin Avenue section of the Tenley View project looks to be on track for completion by the end of November. A walk by the site this afternoon revealed that the former two-story commercial building at the end of the lot is
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