August 2nd, 2010 | by Marcus Afzali | published in General College Park, Politics, Route 1
Those who read this blog on a regular basis know that the founder of this blog (David Daddio) and District 1 County Councilman Tom Dernoga had more than their fair share of disagreements on redevelopment issues in College Park over the years. Months ago I spoke with Tom about these disagreements, in particular over the [...]
July 26th, 2010 | by Christopher Warren | published in East Campus, Route 1
On Friday July 23, 2010, the University of Maryland announced it had begun exclusive negotiations with The Cordish Company to develop the East Campus site. The negotiations are expected to lead to a formal partnership with the Cordish Company becoming the project’s master developer.
Read more about this story at: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=2204.
For more information about the [...]
May 12th, 2010 | by John Euill | published in Housing, Route 1, The Varsity
Here are a few updated renderings of The Varsity project near the main entrance of the UMD campus. These images provide us with not only the latest glimpse of what the building will look like, but also its relation to Northgate Park which was redesigned during the development review process after a land swap between [...]
May 6th, 2010 | by David Daddio | published in Housing, Mazza Grandmarc, Route 1
Rethink College Park is extremely pleased to announce that it’s sponsoring a “hardhat tour” of the nearly complete Mazza GrandMarc Student housing project in North College Park. Ten years in the making, Mazza’s final approval was the subject of a protracted battle between student leaders, Rethink College Park and County Councilman Tom Dernoga [...]
April 24th, 2010 | by David Daddio | published in General College Park, Housing, Route 1
We thought our readers might be interested in a fiery email debate going on between Tom Dernoga, the District 1 County Councilmember leading the effort to prevent the use of form-based codes (FBC) in northern College Park, and myself. Our respective screeds each lay out a fairly complete case against and for the use of [...]
April 16th, 2010 | by David Daddio | published in General College Park, Politics, Projects, Route 1, Transportation
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That’s the definition of insanity. ~ Albert Einstein
The community’s vision for Route 1 is to have a compact, dynamic, mostly 4-6 story mixed-use corridor. That vision has been formally codified in the Route 1 Sector Plan – the primary zoning document for [...]
January 30th, 2010 | by David Daddio | published in Commons 7 and 8, General College Park, Housing, Northgate Area, Oakland Hall, Route 1, Starview Plaza, The Varsity, University View Overlook
Of the seven active construction projects (listed on our area projects by number page) in College Park right now, five of them are student housing. The other two are University-led office buildings in M-Square. Indeed, there is an unprecedented amount of dirt moving on Route 1 right now; proving that while the national economy may [...]
December 2nd, 2009 | by David Daddio | published in Northgate Park, Politics, Route 1, The Varsity, University View, University View Overlook
Apparently, the city’s patience with #1 Liquors is wearing thin. After nearly a decade of begging, prodding, and cajoling tactics, councilmembers are starting to contemplate eminent domain proceedings on College Park’s most infamous homestead holdout. According to the Diamondback the city would like to acquire the parcel in order to create “a park”:
The council voted [...]
