Posts Tagged ‘dog park’
Fenty Opens New Dog Park
Dog Park Opening by Max Cook
It’s finally official. After years of neighborhood arguments, years of planning, and months of construction, the new S street dog park is finally open. Yesterday, Mayor Adrian Fenty, Councilmember Jack Evans, and several other DC political types gave speeches about how great the new park is going to be, patted [...]
Mayor Fenty: King of Parks
Dog Park Turf by Max Cook
It seems as though Mayor Fenty is making a name for himself in this town by sprucing up or completely rebuilding some of our parks, and not without controversy. These parks aren’t just getting some new grass and a drinking fountain. They’re getting new landscaping, artificial turf, benches, fencing, ornate [...]
Dog Park Still Just Dirt
It has been well over a month since the above photo was taken of the dog park at 17th & S. Since then, a small tractor was moved inside the fence giving people hope that construction would finally begin, but was then removed about a week ago. Dog park patrons have still been utilizing a [...]
More »Oh Dog Park, Where Art Thou?
photo courtesy of Max
I moved to Dupont Circle in late 2003 which seems like an eternity ago. Not much has changed in the neighborhood since then. Some new restaurants have opened up on 17th street, property prices went way up and then slid back down again, and the “S street dog park” has turned into [...]
