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Exploring the New Washington, DC: Edge Urbanism in Edgewood/Brookland

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments brookland, catholic university of america, CUA, dc metro, district of columbia, ebike, eckington, edgewood, electric scooter, forman mills, fort totten, Gentrification, lime, northeast dc, periurban, red line, redeveloping surface parking, redevelopment, rhode island avenue, rock creek, rowhouse, silver spring, streetscaping, supermarket sushi, surface parking, takoma, townhouse, walkable, wardman, wardman rowhouse, washington, Washington DC, washington gas and light

Walking, biking, scootering around northeast DC for a couple of weeks, thinking about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.

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Rehabbed or Pre-Habbed? Two Approaches To Distressed Real Estate

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, construction, flipping, home renovation, house flippers, house flipping, investment property, redevelopment, rehab, rental property

Handbuilt’s approach to real estate development involves taking guesswork out of the equation at the beginning of a project by creating a set of construction schedules, scopes, scans, and images using a Matterport camera.

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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 8 mile, adaptive reuse, brooks patterson, brownfield, dave coulter, DDOT, Density, Detroit, duggan, economic development, eight mile, francis grunow, historic preservation, mike duggan, preservation, QLINE, redevelopment, RTA, SMART, state fairgrounds, state fairgrounds site, transit, transit infrastructure, woodward, woodward avenue

The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.

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