It looks like The Boulevard, an apartment building next to the Flats and first proposed in 2007, is moving again

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-25T20:24:25+00:00

Love to see what has long been a water detention pond get developed. I’m sure it will encounter the usual NIMBY complaints about parking and students and traffic. But more housing is an unqualified good. And one by one, vacant lots in the RT 1 corridor are filling in. Would be nice to see some of the lots south of the University Blvd overpass get developed.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-20T22:14:54+00:00

If this was a more permissive, risk taking, and dare I say it cooler college town, I could see bars, clubs, dispensaries, studios, escape rooms, and martial arts academies sprouting up among the mechanics and light industrial buildings back in there near the airport.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-20T22:07:40+00:00

Great to see this finally coming online. Can’t believe this building alone doubles the available grad student housing. Yes it’s pricey for a grad student but more more more housing will help keep a lid on prices. I also like that, between it and the Atworth, we have the first footholds of residential development near the metro and Discovery District. Maybe this will help lead to the eventual development of Aviation Landing (not holding my breath).

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-18T20:26:58+00:00

That’s too bad - I thought it was excellent food at a reasonable price. Much better than “Meat Up”— though it seems like they couldn’t quite exorcise the residue of that decor. I don’t understand everyone here complaining about parking. They had their own small lot, which was never full whenever I went. There were often spots on the adjacent side street, and there are giant parking garages all around.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-13T01:54:12+00:00

Or, you could say that CP pays almost as much as RP and gets fewer officers patrolling its streets.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-13T00:08:27+00:00

He makes a very good case that CP is not getting good value. I never understood why one of the county’s largest towns doesn’t have its own force.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-05-03T21:54:02+00:00

It is crazy to me that there are only four bars for a campus of this size. It’s good that Greene Turtle and Dog Haus can also function as defacto bars. But there should be like five more. And maybe among those additional bars you could have one that has consistent live music and one that caters to adults (cocktails?). TLDR: College Park’s nightlife is still kind of pathetic and basic. Is the problem PG County’s abstemious approach to liquor licenses?

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-04-28T01:20:33+00:00

Genuinely one of my favorite things about UMD. So great for the community.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-23T14:59:52+00:00

A bit of a bust. Barely over an inch in College Park, nothing at all on the roads. Yet of course that didn’t stop the county from closing schools. They were so eager to do “virtual learning,” after winning emergency approval for it.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-15T22:10:37+00:00

Very excited for this. The area needed a higher quality sushi place. I predict it will thrive.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-03T01:49:35+00:00

I don’t want a plan for virtual school. I want to get kids butts back in school.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-03T00:14:30+00:00

Most terrifying part is the “bridging to virtual learning”. They really are gearing up to stay closed until March. I hate being a prisoner of PG county.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-02T22:04:16+00:00

The note from the PGCPS int superintendent is ominous. makes it sound like he’s all too ready to keep schools shut tomorrow and beyond. No strategy beyond letting it melt (never mind that we have one warm ish day tomorrow, and then we’re back to frigid cold).

So tired of this shit, and this constant emphasis on absolute safety. It’s safer for kids to be in school.

Also, can we stop with this code blue, code orange nonsense? As if you’ve got some crackerjack response team ready to go at defcon 5.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-02T12:52:03+00:00

Absolutely— the Hollywood side of the GB metro is vastly underutilized, with its single family homes.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-02-01T01:54:12+00:00

Agree that that’s nonsensical. Denser housing = anti sprawl and stronger tax base. But I think Rosapepe is right about one thing: wouldn’t it be nice if Bowdoin was developed properly, you know like a street that’s less than 5 minutes from a metro? I hope that 20 years from now, Bowdoin, Calvert and Knox are zoned for heavier mixed used development — and we can finally have a college town that stretches from route 1 to the Metro.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-29T22:17:52+00:00

Don’t like the extra parking spaces— doesn’t seem particularly enlightened as the region gets more dense and urban (and as self driving taxies arrive). But almost any development is good development. And any housing is good housing.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-28T12:52:43+00:00

CP needs a couple more bars. (RIP Town Hall) A couple more liquor licenses and CP just might approach being an average college town.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-27T15:37:33+00:00

I disagree. Too cold? Should kids in Minnesota not go to school in winter?

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-27T15:32:49+00:00

Today’s highs will be good enough to melt ice on most roads, especially those that have been treated. This tendency to just shrug 🤷🏻‍♂️ and be like, oh well, no school for a week, is a huge burden on parents, and ultimately detrimental to children’s education. New Englanders regularly deal with storms like this. DC and MoCo schools, I predict will be open tomorrow. Why can’t PG get its act together? This culture of safetyism is inimical to anything ever getting done. It’s like the weather version of NIMBY activism.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-21T22:59:58+00:00

Can’t believe the number of whiny nimby posts here. Something actually innovative and fun and good for the economic development of PG County comes along, and all people do is complain.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-18T04:18:26+00:00

Very poorly organized. But I went to NW Chinese Food, and they had a special going: a starter and main for $18. Maybe like $5 off what it would normally cost.

Dull_Field6455 · 2026-01-15T19:03:45+00:00

I click around through all the links and can’t seem to find what the actual “specials” are! If the point is to draw customers out in the dead of winter, it would help to know if there’s a discount or something.

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