Youth Involvement Six Congress Heights elementary school children received cash prizes as the winners of the second contest held for schools in the area of St. Elizabeths East Campus. The St. Elizabeths East Community Action Team (CAT) organized the Writing, Drawing, and Rapping Contest to engage youth in presenting a vision of the East Campus. Read more »
The District Department of Transportation hosted a public hearing for the St. Elizabeth’s East Campus Transportation Network Environmental Assessment (EA) on Thursday, January 19, 2012. Close to 50 participants, predominately from Ward 8, attended. Heading the agenda, Councilmember Marion Barry assisted with introducing and awarding the six elementary school winners of the St. Elizabeths East Read more »
The DC Office of Planning (DCOP) and DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) are jointly developing a master land use and transportation plan for the St. Elizabeths East Campus. Since May 2011 a series of public meetings have been taking place to present the revised master plan alternatives and seek input on the preferred plan from Read more »
The area known as the St. Elizabeths Campus is approximately 350 acres of primarily publicly-owned land located on the east and west sides of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Avenue SE in Ward 8 in the District of Columbia. The federal government has a master plan to guide redevelopment of the St. Elizabeths West Campus, which is across MLK Avenue SE and mostly includes offices for federal workers.
St. Elizabeths East is approximately 170 acres in the Congress Heights neighborhood and represents one of the largest single redevelopment opportunities in the District. Due to its size and scope the redevelopment of the East Campus will take time and occur in multiple phases. Yet, with previous studies having been completed complete such as the 2008 Framework Plan, the District is ready to move forward with the community to create specific development guidance, which will direct its implementation.
