Washington Business Journal

Sholom Harold “Doc” Friedman, the beloved owner of one of Arlington’s last independent shoe stores until it closed up shop in early 2016, died Oct. 6. He was 86.

Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to grow its brick-and-mortar retail presence along one of D.C.’s growing retail corridors: 14th Street NW. 

The Freedom Forum Inc. has picked America’s Square to serve as its interim home as it prepares to move out of the Newseum a short distance away.

Virginia Tech is looking to start building the first part of its $1 billion innovation campus — a 300,000-square-foot academic building — by August 2021.

Long-awaited plans for the redevelopment of the Park Shirlington apartment complex into affordable homes are now moving forward.

JBG Smith Properties filed plans with Arlington County to redevelop a half-dozen buildings in Crystal City near where it is helping Amazon.com Inc. establish its second headquarters.

A new food hall in D.C. is planned for the Anthem Row development at 8th and K streets NW, across from the Carnegie Library Apple Store.

Construction is about to get underway on a $250 million development that is expected to bring more than 500,000 square feet of mixed-use to Capitol Heights.

D.C. officials are putting the finishing touches on some additional amendments to the city’s full comprehensive plan just as lawmakers finalize an opening round of changes to the influential development document.

Millennials are on pace to have more mortgage debt than any other generation. And it’s particularly bad in Washington, D.C.

The General Services Administration is considering tapping into the rapidly growing coworking market to meet part of its space needs across the U.S.

The National World War I Memorial slated for D.C.’s Pershing Park has received final approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

In a rare local public appearance, the Amazon CEO stopped by the National Press Club in D.C. Thursday to unveil his new environmental plans.

The first Topgolf in the U.S. could be replaced with a couple hundred townhomes under a proposed amendment to Fairfax County’s comprehensive plan.

Amazon drew more than 5,000 visitors to Arlington Tuesday for its career day, the company said Wednesday, and it received 208,000-plus applications for job openings nationwide since announcing the event.

After just one year on the job, National Geographic Society President and CEO Tracy Wolstencroft will be stepping down at the start of next month.

If you like traveling long distance via train but don’t want to actually meet other people while doing it, Amtrak has a new option for you.

A building in Baltimore’s Fells Point used as the exterior of Meg Ryan’s house in the classic 1993 film “Sleepless in Seattle” is for up for sale.

The District’s Department of General Services will be moved out of the Reeves Center along the U Street corridor.

The revitalized pier at Old Town Alexandria’s newest waterfront development will feature a bar and lounge carved out of shipping containers.

George Washington University is advancing toward a gut renovation of its largest undergraduate residence hall, a building the school acquired in the 1950s and hasn’t fully updated since.

Physicians from Children’s National will now provide pediatric care in the emergency department at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham every day from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The D.C. area is seeing its first layoffs related to Nestle USA’s shift away from direct store delivery. The consumer packaged goods giant on Monday filed a notice of mass layoff that would affect 69 workers at the Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company in Laurel.

Busboys and Poets, the neighborhood coffeehouse, restaurant and bookstore, is making the leap to Columbia, Maryland.