Category Archives: Riverdale Park

Stories about Riverdale Park, Maryland, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., with a focus on arts, culture, history, real estate and development.

Frozen yogurt shop Yogi Castle and eyewear retailer LensCrafters are both slated to move into the mixed-use development the Station at Riverdale Park. Continue reading

Three towns along the Route 1 corridor allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, a policy aimed at getting new immigrants more involved that is gaining ground nationally, and now Washington, D.C. is considering its own measure, which would affect some 51,000 foreign-born residents. Continue reading

The New Deal Cafe, Community Forklift and other businesses along the Route 1 corridor were named winners in the annual Washington City Paper ‘Best of D.C.’ readers’ poll And this year, a surprising number of entrants from the corridor were finalists. Continue reading

Construction is underway on a long-delayed Peruvian chicken restaurant coming to an empty building at the northern edge of Hyattsville’s Arts District. Continue reading

Three restaurants on the Route 1 corridor have been featured on the first season of WETA’s “Signature Dish” TV show this year. Continue reading

Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, a nonprofit based in Hyattsville, is surveying historic buildings along the Route 1 corridor from Baltimore to the D.C. border to help save them. Continue reading

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