A Mount Rainier art gallery is looking to add another building-sized mural to the Route 1 corridor.

Located at 3510 Rhode Island Ave., inside a renovated historic building, Station 3510 is working with the Mount Rainier Arts Commission to find an artist this month.

Up to three finalists will receive a $600 stipend to develop a proposal for the building wrap, with the finalist receiving $17,500 plus expenses to complete the mural.

The mural, which is planned to last for at least 10 years, will be seen by tens of thousands of people who drive past that stretch of Route 1.

Station 3510, which opened in the summer of 2024, runs community workshops and art classes along with exhibitions from local artists.

The gallery is located inside a building from 1947 that was fixed up by Daniel Simon, who also renovated the Palmer Building in Hyattsville currently occupied by Vigilante coffee.

Mural proposals are due Feb. 24.

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A new boutique furniture store opened in Hyattsville with a selection of home furnishings.

Located at 4504 Hamilton St., just south of Yes! Organic Market, Wynnwood Home Market features furniture, home decor, and home furnishings, focusing on contemporary design.

Located in Hyattsville’s Arts District, Wynnwood Home Market features hand-selected inventory, including upscale furniture, statement lighting, and carefully designed accessories. The store offers options for those looking to refresh a single room or redesign an entire home and provides help in finding pieces to suit your taste.

In addition to its furniture and décor selection, Wynnwood Home Market also features a complimentary coffee bar.

Shoppers can stay updated on the latest arrivals and special events by following the store on Instagram or visiting their website.

The store is open from noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays and noon to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

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A group of parents are organizing to fight the impending closure of the Sunny Days child care center in Riverdale Park.

Parents who use the center, located inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building at 4700 River Rd., learned in January that it will close later this year, as the federal government will be selling the space where its located.

The 60 families who currently rely on Sunny Days will have to find alternative child-care arrangements by August, but some hope they can find another location to allow it to remain open.

Organizers of the protest note that the closure contradicts the Trump administration’s directive for federal workers to return to their offices.

“Federal workers, like many working parents, depend on stable, accessible, and high-quality childcare,” they note in a letter to elected officials.

You can send a similar letter here.

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Call Your Mother Deli is coming to Riverdale Park.

The popular D.C. bagel hotspot will open a food truck at Bear Square, located between 45th and 46th streets at the Station at Riverdale Park.

Calvin Cafritz Enterprises, which owns the mixed-use development, gave a presentation about the food truck to the Prince George’s County Planning Department in mid-January, though Call Your Mother has not announced it publicly yet.

The Hyattsville Wire spoke to a representative with Call Your Mother, who said they will be releasing more information tomorrow through an official press release.

Call Your Mother, which calls itself a “Jew-ish” deli, is regularly lauded for having the best bagels in D.C. and included in the Washingtonian’s Cheap Eats survey.

It’s a welcome addition to Route 1, which saw the beloved Bagel Place in College Park close in 2021, leaving just Bagels ‘n Grinds farther up Baltimore Avenue and Towne Bagels in Mount Rainier.

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The town of Bladensburg has dropped an attempt to annex the site of a long-planned development.

After the town of Cheverly sued, Bladensburg agreed to drop its attempted annexation of the former Prince George’s Hospital Center.

The county has long worked to turn the 44-acre site into a massive development with more than 1,300 apartments, senior housing, and townhomes, as well as a hotel, 40,000 square feet of shops, and 70,000 square feet of medical centers, and offices.

Bladensburg officials said they were satisfied that the town would have input into the project.

“Our intent is not to hinder development but to ensure that Bladensburg has a voice in a project that will have lasting positive regional impacts,” said Bladensburg Mayor Takisha James in a statement.

The town of Cheverly said in a statement that the two towns had made “a significant step forward” in addressing their concerns.

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Construction is underway on a massive new housing complex for graduate students in College Park.

Located just south of Campus Drive near the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the Leonardtown development by Mosaic Development and Campus Apartments will have 465 apartments serving around 800 graduate students at the University of Maryland.

The 300,000-square-foot project, slated to be completed in late 2026, replaces older graduate student housing in the neighborhood, which is mostly made up of small single-family homes.

The development is likely just the first of other major projects in the area, which is less than a half-mile from the College Park Metro station and will soon also have a Purple Line stop as well.

Urban planners have long found that people aren’t willing to walk more than half a mile to a transit stop.

The development is designed to aim a long-running housing crunch among the more than 10,000 graduate students at the University of Maryland.

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The new Gateway Farmers Market is moving indoors this winter.

On the second and fourth Saturdays of the month, the farmers market will be located inside the miXt food hall at 3809 Rhode Island Ave. in Brentwood from 9 a.m. to noon. This Saturday, several hundred customers stopped by.

The indoor market features a rotating group of some of the same vendors — Sharrah Orchards, Riverdale Park’s Manifest Bread, Tae-Gu Kimchi and Tenth Ward Distilling, among others — plus miXt vendors such as La Michoacána tacos, the Burger Shop and Flames & Cones. There’s also an art class for kids.

Some of the regular farmers don’t participate because they don’t grow enough during the winter months, while others don’t want to offer something already on sale at miXt.

“MiXt is a fantastic host partner because they have a wonderful open space with tons of casual seating, so it’s really social and family-friendly,” said farmers market founder Megan Abbot. Especially with the donation-based art & play program, it’s a good destination for families with kids during these cold months.”

The event began with a pop-up on Saturday, Jan. 11. It went so well that Abbot and her husband, Gary Hall, decided to keep it running on every other Saturday through the end of March.

The outdoor market at the Bunker Hill fire station parking lot at 3716 Rhode Island Ave. will return on April 5. The remaining Market Re-miXt dates are: Feb. 8, Feb. 22, March 8 and March 22.

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