Explore Washington, DC building permits, MPD crime data, and D-7, D-4-R and D-6 zoning in Downtown, Chinatown, Penn Quarters and Mount Vernon Square.
Search this neighborhoodDowntown DC is dominated by office towers, hotels and cultural venues: Capital One Arena in Chinatown, Ford's Theatre and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Penn Quarters, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on G Street, and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at Mount Vernon Square.
D-7 downtown districts cover about 15 percent of the cluster, followed by D-4-R downtown (15 percent), D-6 downtown (12 percent) and D-3 downtown (11 percent). Metrorail service includes McPherson Sq (Blue, Orange and Silver Lines), Gallery Pl-Chinatown (Red, Green and Yellow Lines) and Metro Center (Red, Blue, Orange and Silver Lines) stations; Metrobus routes D36, D24 and D30 serve the cluster.
CivicScout tracks Metropolitan Police Department reported crime (the nine offense categories MPD publishes), traffic crashes and open 311 service requests for any searched address in Downtown, Chinatown, Penn Quarters and Mount Vernon Square.
View safety data →Permit activity in Downtown, Chinatown, Penn Quarters and Mount Vernon Square includes office-to-residential conversions, hotel and retail work, and large downtown mixed-use projects. The permit records CivicScout tracks are DC Department of Buildings construction permits plus electrical, plumbing and mechanical trade permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →D-7 downtown districts cover about 15 percent of the cluster, followed by D-4-R downtown (15 percent), D-6 downtown (12 percent) and D-3 downtown (11 percent).
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for Downtown, Chinatown, Penn Quarters and Mount Vernon Square addresses surface DC building permits, open 311 service requests, traffic crashes and the applicable DC zoning district.
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