NoMa’s new REI has been searching for space to use for free classes and promotional events, Hill Now reports. And that’s spawned new interest in a stalled plan to create a pop-up community beer garden on the 8k SF vacant lot at 150 M St NE (above). Wunder Garten, brainchild of Allon Pultuskier, wife and consultant Biva

District Cuisine found out all the details on the new temporary beer garden coming to NoMa this Spring: “Business partners, including the owner of L’Enfant Cafe in Adams Morgan, are planning a hybrid beer garden and park that will cater to guests of all ages (and will likely allow dogs as well).” They also note

91 H Street, NW The owner tells me Chicken Rico is “slated to open this Thursday, 2/12/15 @ 10:30.” You can see the menu from their Baltimore spot here. Here’s a peek inside: Peruvian Rotisserie, Chicken Rico, opening Thursday on H Street by Walmart – Have a Peek Inside

(Updated at 9:10 a.m. Wednesday) An overgrown lot just west of the NoMa Metro station may become Wunder Garten. Three locals are planning a pop-up “community beer garden” with German and Austrian brews, European food trucks and possibly a playground, they said at a community meeting Monday night. “We want to create a large grassy area

We already know what’s been on fire recently: NoMa, Capitol Riverfront and the East End (liberally defined as 14th to 7th and and Logan Circle to Shaw). Butwhat about the next 15 years, for those of you who want to stake your claims on the frontier? Developer Jair Lynch, whom we snapped Friday, identifies the three next hotneighborhoods:

Last summer, NoMa came close to getting a beer garden in the vacant lot in between the NoMa-Gallaudet Metro station and the Flats 130 apartment building (at 150 M Street, NE).  The large lot has previously been used as a construction staging area but is now vacant for the time being.  At that time, negotiations