Your Friends have been out in the community over the last month and we’re grateful to our partners for engaging us in these fascinating opportunities.  Dan Reed and I were both panelists during a Montgomery Housing Partnership breakfast focused on social media in community engagement. Montgomery Housing Partnership’s mission is to expand

The Greater U Street area of 14th Street NW has witnessed dramatic change in just a few short years. Over 1000 housing units are under construction or newly built, about 85,000 square feet of retail space have been added, and dozens of restaurants have opened in the past few years.

A proposed highway that would skirt a Civil War battlefield is raising hackles in Virginia. A group of six conservative Republican state lawmakers, flanked by dozens of local homeowners, announced their opposition on Monday to the McDonnell administration's plan to build a 45-mile, major north-south highway connecting I-95 in Prince

White Flint is fundamentally transforming from an aging auto-oriented commercial corridor to an accessible and vibrant walkable community. On April 27, 2013, CSG brought together together Federal Realty’s Tommy Mann, Friends of White Flint’s Lindsay Hoffman, and Nkosi Yearwood, the Montgomery County lead planner for White Flint, to update us on progress, explore what’s changing and what it means for the neighborhood, and what we can expect in this area as it becomes one of the Washington region's newest walkable communities. See the event program.

Following the ins and outs of the many redevelopment projects slated for White Flint isn’t easy. So on Saturday a group of smart growth advocates put together a walking tour of the area to show about 50 area residents what is going on and what they hope to see happen