Solar Powered Homes Coming to Rosedale

A lot guarded by a fence for many years may become a site of solar powered town homes and condos.  Projects have been slated for the vacant lot  off of 17th street between C and D St NE before. Will it come to fruition? The groundbreaking is scheduled for September.



Urban Turf Article

http://17solar.com/

Zombie Housing Development Supposedly Coming to Life

Okay, maybe "zombie" isn't the best term but a deep-in-hibernation housing development project is supposedly moving forward. This same lot was mentioned on the RCA blog in 2007.

It will be interesting to see the plans and see how all these townhouse homes will fit on that parcel with access only on 17th St. Courtyard formation?

"Ideally, they'll try to start pre-sales this summer, and break ground in the fall if there's strong interest." 

There does seem to be an uptick of houses in the neighborhood and Kingman Park being featured on popular blogs like Prince of Petworth and with nearby projects on East Capitol underway this does seem like "striking the iron when it's hot" from a developers stand point.  The Courtyard on Constitution is another nearby project that has a similar model that seemed to be successful from a developers point of view.

Rosedale Housing Options (perusing the internet)

What's for sale and what's for rent. Even though these places are a few blocks away each other, the differences are striking. One block is mostly houses, while the other block is mostly small apartment buildings. One "revamped" and the other "kept up with". It's nice to see that the neighborhood can have diversity in affordable (by dc standards) housing stock.

1613 E St NE

From original craigslist post

 











1630 Rosedale St NE

From trulia

Looking for Residents Effected by DC's Increasing Housing Prices

Brett is a report with Marketplace, an American Public Media radio show and is looking for residents who might be effected by DC's increasing housing prices. Please read below and contact him directly if you have, or someone you know has, been impacted this market change. I believe he is trying to complete his report by the end of this week.

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Hi,

I’m a reporter for Marketplace, a show on public radio. I’m doing a story about the District’s changing demographics and one portion of the story concerns housing prices. I’m looking to speak to a person who has either been priced out of their neighborhood or is close to being priced out. Can you help me find someone who might be able to talk to me about how rising housing prices in Northeast have affected them?


Thanks for your help,

Brett Neely
Marketplace
202-263-0201
bneely@marketplace.org