June 2012 June 2011 % Change Sold Dollar Volume $5,490,300 $5,261, 900 4.34% Avg. Sold Price $322,959 $292,328 10.48% Median Sold Price $260,000 $245,250 6.01% Units Sold 17 18 -5.56% Avg. Days on Market 59 83 -28.92% Avg. List Price for Solds $327,933 $298,617 9.82% Avg. Sale Price to […]
Smith Center Workshops Celebrate Health and Wellness
Westminster Presbyterian Church hosted a series of wellness workshops for the entire Southwest community this June. The free series, coordinated by Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, included a “Wellness Works!” kick-off event followed by three “Healthy U” workshops on Fitness, Nutrition and Stress Management. Over 90 people took […]
Southwester Releases Proposed Editorial Policy
At the June meeting of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly’s Board of Directors, The Southwester’s editor-in-chief was charged with developing a formal editorial policy to guide the administration and publication of The Southwester. Now that a draft policy has been developed, The Southwester invites its readers to weigh in. The draft policy […]
Affordable Rental Housing at The Wharf Phase 1
One of the most important community benefits coming from the development of the SW Waterfront – The Wharf – is a substantial amount of new affordable rental housing. As part of its Land Disposition Agreement with the District of Columbia, Hoffman-Madison Waterfront (HMW) agreed to provide 160,000 square feet of […]
Notes On the Nats: Bryce Harper in ‘The Moment’
This writer, as a young boy, loved a game we called “Running Bases.” I couldn’t get enough of it. I would enlist my dad and kid brother, my older sister, or anyone else I could charm or annoy into playing until they lost interest in it. It worked like this: […]
Night Basketball Teams Compete at King-Greenleaf Through July
Three-point basketball shots are amazing the crowd evenings at King-Greenleaf Recreation Center at Canal/First St. SW near M St. SW. Three weeks of young adult basketball under the lights are filling July evenings. Games start at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m., each Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday […]
Kathleen Turner Firing Up Arena Stage in ‘Red Hot Patriot’
Screen star Kathleen Turner brings political icon Molly Ivins to the stage in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. The D.C. premiere kicks off Arena Stage’s 2012/13 season, playing August 23 through October 28, 2012, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle. Turner, who starred as Titania […]