November 5th, 2009 | by David Daddio | published in Housing, Mazza Grandmarc
When I saw it, I could hardly believe my eyes. Seven links down on a basic Google search for “Mazza Granmarc” there it was staring back at me from across cyberspace: the leasing website for the first purely private student housing project to open in College Park in five years. It’ll be the only (private) [...]
March 25th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in General College Park, Mazza Grandmarc
For starters, you may have noticed less posting on RCP lately. With one co-founder already away from College Park for a year and the other preparing to graduate, RCP is in need of fresh blood. We’ll be organizing a strategic meeting to bring together our supporters to plan for the future of the site soon, [...]
September 20th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Mazza Grandmarc, Politics
RTCP has a column running in today’s Gazette:
> Dernoga’s ‘misjudgement’ hindering Route 1
The letter is in response to the County Councilman’s August 16th letter, which in turn was a response to GSG President Laura Moore’s August 2nd letter.
by David Daddio:
I was disappointed to read [Prince George’s] County Councilman Thomas Dernoga’s condescending letter [‘‘Free the developers [...]
June 28th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Housing, Mazza Grandmarc
We’ve written enough about this project. What had to be said was said. Now it’s finally time for the shovels to hit the dirt and for some concrete economic development to finally come to College Park (ETA – Fall 2009). The details aren’t clear yet, but the word is that Councilman Dernoga has finally given in [...]
June 19th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Mazza Grandmarc
It appears that County Councilman Tom Dernoga has Killed the 660 graduate bed Mazza Grandmarc. The conditions he put on the project’s approval today will likely not go over well with Mazza’s investors. Chief among these conditons are:
Requiring LEED standards in the 11th hour
KICKER: Requiring a site plan approval for the two commercial parcels on the [...]
June 8th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Mazza Grandmarc
The 60 day waiting period is almost up and the PG County Council is set to vote Monday on the approval of the Mazza Grandmarc – a 660 bed (largely graduate) student housing complex in northern College Park. The project has been stalled since May 2006 because Councilman Tom Dernoga “pulled it” for review. When [...]
April 23rd, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Mazza Grandmarc
“Unbelievable” is the only way to describe the scene at the County Council chambers this morning in Upper Marlboro. The developer of the proposed 630 bed graduate student housing project Mazza Grandmarc (LOCATION) finally came before the Council almost a year after Councilmen Dernoga “called up” the project for review. They poured over the Detailed [...]
March 14th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Downtown, General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Mazza Grandmarc, Northgate Area, Route 1
We’re pleased to announce that a major (and in our view: reasonable) compromise was reached late last night on the impact fee waiver controversy. While everyone at the meeting agreed the boundary (that allows a county incentive for student housing) needs to be reduced from its original size (black line) to an area within the [...]
