Sustainability : Development News

DC Water will award $1 million to seven projects that won its Green Infrastructure Challenge, intended to reduce stormwater runoff.

The owners of the sustainable seafood shop coming to Union Market has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get them past the finish line.

The District has channelled $4.5 million in the past year toward projects that will create a more sustainable city. Over the coming weeks, we'll be looking at the ways buildings are being retrofitted, green facilities are being built, and more.

The D.C. Housing Authority is wrapping up a feasibility study, the first phase in converting a defunct coal plant at the Langston Dwellings to run on renewable energy.

A section of Highland Dwellings, a 208-unit public housing complex in SE, will be renovated with green features including a geothermal heating system.

The National Aquarium may have shuttered its D.C. location last month, but the nonprofit wants to continue its mission of conservation in the nation’s capital.

The Mayor and other officials celebrated the Phase III groundbreaking of Sheridan Station, the redevelopment of a vacant public housing site into more than 200 mixed-income condos and townhouses.

Called "Green'O'vation," the project will reopen O Street NW between 1st and 3rd, which has been closed since the original Dunbar High School was built in the 1970s.

The Embassy of France has taken the first steps toward installing a green roof on the largest of its three buildings.

The architectural team responsible for the Woodridge Library redesign presented its newest renderings at a recent community meeting.