2008 Year in Review

This blog was born on January 28, 2008 as a DuMont contract holder using the pen name Mediocre Bad Guy aimed to build an online community of residents both present and future. Just three short days later a Madrigal Lofts resident using the pen name Madrigal Blogs became an author for the blog. Early postings talked of Architecture, buildings lost forever, DuMont rumors and Peapod grocery shopping.

In mid March I finalized my condo hunt and chose Madrigal Lofts to be my new home. I responded to Mediocre Bad Guy's open invitation and joined the team. Other commitments have dramatically scaled back the involvement of our original two contributors to the blog. However since I took full adminstrative authority in June and commited to a frequent and dependable posting schedule the site traffic has more than tripled. I am also proud that and we've recently added Yale Loft's resident SteamingMyLaundry to the team.

Below are some highlights from the year.

Open for Business

• Papa Johns
  
• 5th Street Hardware
  
• Safeway
  
• Busboys and Poets
  
• Results the Gym
  
• Chevy Chase Bank
  
• The V Apartments
  
• The UPS Store

The Promise of More to Come

• The Arts at 5th and Eye
  
• Buddha Bar
  
• City Vista retail space for lease
  
• Mount Vernon Place
  
• Douglas Development's concept for Squares 450/451
  
• Yale West

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

• ICE leaves CAAB building
  
• National Public Radio moving to NoMA
  
• Demolition of a few vacants on 3rd
  
• WSD gives up on proposed Eye Street Lofts and sells parcels

A few of my other fave posts

• Bill McLeod on the Mount Vernon Triangle
  
• DCMetrocentric features The Triangle
  
• Block Group 3, Census Tract 47
  
• Mayhood presentation on Madrigal Lofts
  
• $2Million declined for a $200,000 property
  
• Big Green Monsters
  
• Tony Cheng's 5th Street property
  
• Firehouse Facade at 400 Mass
  
• Park Improvements at 2nd & Mass (proposed)
  
• Tracktwentynine on Back to the Future
  
• Good, not Great Stuff
  
• Bid Smackdown - Capitol Riverfront

Stats via Google Analytics:


Top Referral Sites

1. PQLiving
   
2. DCist
   
3. Life in MVSNA
   
4. Renew Shaw
   
5. DC Blogs
   
6. Greater Greater Washington
   
7. District Chatter
   
8. DC Metrocentric

The Most viewed posts

1. 5th & I Public Meeting recap
   
2. 7th & Hell
   
3. Safeway Flickr Stream
   
4. Shattered Windows at City Vista
   
5. MVSNA endorse Single Serve Moratorium Exemption (Most comments)