Top 10 Stories From Around The Web: NoMa/H Street
1. Toll Brothers has acquired the Sursum Corda housing community site at M Street and First Street NW, and plans to move forward with plans for redevelopment. The Sursum Corda Cooperative Association sold the site to Toll Brothers for $60M.
2. Elon Musk’s Boring Co. received approval in 2017 to dig a tunnel for the hyperloop. A Boring Co. spokesman has identified NoMa as a potential site for the station.
3. WhyHotel appears close to having its first D.C. deal. The Vornado pop-up hotel startup is in talks to open at Equity Residential’s 222-unit apartment building in NoMa.
4. Amazon officials paid a visit to D.C. to tour four proposed HQ2 sites: Anacostia Riverfront, Hill East, Shaw and NoMa.
5. Union Market, in partnership with the Washington Post’s The Lily, has installed a mural that reads “We’re Getting Louder” in honor of last week's International Women’s Day. The public art display is located between Fourth Street NE and Neal Place NE.
6. The D.C. government and NoMa BID have cleared away the homeless encampments under the L and M street underpasses for a public art installation.
7. H Street’s Bar Elena has made Eater’s list of the 16 Hottest Restaurants in D.C. for March. The owner plans to open a restaurant in the vacated Union Social space in NoMa's Elevation at Washington Gateway project.
8. J Street Cos. has announced plans to build a 62-unit condo building near the NoMa-Gallaudet U Metro. The building will comprise mostly one-bedrooms at a starting price of $400K, aiming to appeal to a demographic of first-time homeowners, young professionals and empty nesters looking to move into for-sale housing in the city.
9. D.C. officials announced they are considering replacing existing vehicles for The D.C. Streetcar, a free mode of transportation that runs along H Street between Benning Road and Union Station, with new ones. This news comes two years after the D.C. Streetcar launched.
10. NoMa’s planned Central Armature Works project, which faced delays due to an appeal from neighborhood activist group Union Market Neighbors, has been given the green light to proceed with construction.
