Streetcar maintenance facility, outdoor dining at Sticky Fingers and a 'model' hotel room

Welcome to permit on this spectacularly sunny Opening Day for the Washington Nationals.

2550 Benning Road NE: Mayor Muriel Bowser last week pledged to get the H Street/Benning Road streetcar line into service, eventually. On Wednesday, the day after her first State of the District address, D.C. was issued a permit to construct a 15,000-square-foot, two-story streetcar maintenance and training facility with a basement, on the grounds of Spingarn High School. According to D.C.’s streetcar website,…