It’s all about the neighborhood
A large proposed development on 14th Street is designed to create a significant amount of affordable housing while preserving an art space for the future. It’s also creating both vocal opposition and support. Now the decision to build moves to the DC Zoning Board.
Read MoreToday, DC faces a staggering affordable housing crisis. The workers who serve this city are priced out of living in most of our neighborhoods, and homeownership is a distant dream for many lifelong DC residents. The skyrocketing cost of living here is fueling our homelessness crisis, eviction crisis, foreclosure crisis, and displacement crisis.
The core DC value of being a welcoming city is undermined by housing prices that systematically push people out and keep people out.
Read MoreAfter a few years of renovations in a crumbling building, along with notice of a pending building sale, Dance Loft on 14 on the 4600 block of 14th Street NW is planning to purchase their current building in partnership with Heleos and redevelop the location.
Read MoreTwo new shows at the Dance Loft bring indie theater to Petworth. Readers get 10% off!
The 4615 Theatre Company is performing two productions that will run in rotation from August 9th through September 8th: Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL and the DC premiere of Lucy Prebble's ENRON (which is about, yes, the infamous company).
If you’re interested in bold, daring indie theatre, these two productions should be on your calendar.
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Solas Nua brings a new romantic comedy to Dance Loft on 14th: How to Keep an Alien. The play is a funny and tender real-life story in which two women meet and fall in love, Irish Sonya and Australian Kate, but Kate’s visa is up and she must leave Ireland.
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Petworth News is a news site about Petworth area neighborhoods in Washington DC, written by Drew Schneider and other amazing contributing writers. It features facts and objective reporting, as well as an occasional subjective point of view and opinion.
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