WBJ: Best Community Impact: NoMa Green

As D.C.’s NoMa has turned from industrial to mixed-use over the last decade, plenty of multifamily units, countless granite countertops and an REI store in a former arena have been built. Read more.

A complex deal between Foulger-Pratt Development and the NoMa Business Improvement District has landed the BID another park site and the developer a future mixed-use pad. Read more.

A lot of change is on the way in NoMa. Work on two underpasses is expected to finally begin this year while designs for a new Third Street park, and the search for a designer for the NoMa Green are underway. Read more.

If all goes according to plan, NoMa residents will have a new, lush, green public park to enjoy in 2018, thanks to the NoMa Parks Foundation, which has just acquired the two-acre parcel of land it’s had its collective eyes on for years. Read more.

The NoMa neighborhood acquired its second piece of land for a local park near Harry Thomas Way NE, the Metropolitan Branch Trail and New York Avenue NE on Jan. 4. NoMa Parks Foundation bought the two-acre plot for $14 million dollars from Pepco. The funds came from the $50 million awarded to the foundation by the DC government in 2013 to develop new public park spaces.  Read more here.