The Old Post Office is getting remodeled into a fancy hotel by none other than team Donald Trump (with his daughter, Ivanka, taking charge of the project). Everyone is expecting the exterior to be painted in gold leaf trimmings.

The Corcoran muckety-mucks are making moves to sell the building as a cost-cutting measure, so preservationists have filed to have it nominated as a local architectural landmark so a developer can't come in and totally transform the interior (by squeezing in hundreds of apartments, for example). See also: http://www.dcpreservation.org/2012/10/preservationists-file-to-protect-corcoran/

Union Station is going to get a huge expansion, including an underground area, that has preservationists worried. The $7Billion project looks too contemporary and will require messing with the existing historic structure, some say.

Douglas Development Corporation owns this building and was paying regular taxes on the building, until a DC blogger pointed it out to DCRA that is should really be paying the rate for a blighted building. Up went the taxes and in went an application for a raze permit.

The former water treatment site is a huge expanse of green space with the District that no one can agree on what to do with. Should it be play fields, a rec center, a museum site?