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Fenty Expands District Presence At Retail Convention
Following in Williams’ footsteps, Fenty attended his first International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual convention — the largest gathering of retail-related professionals in the country and a place to make deals. The District’s booth increased in size this year from 600 to 2,000 square feet. It seems that grocery stores are still an issue, with [...]
PEPCO To Start Residential Smart Metering Pilot Program
With gas prices recently blowing right through $3/gallon, almost breaking the March 1981 inflation adjusted high record of $3.29/gallon, and contributing to a greater public awareness about energy conservation, we’re glad to see PEPCO start a smart metering electricity trial program in DC. Prices for electricity will be set to different rates during different times [...]
918 F St Office Building Under Contract (Deal Closes In Jan 2008)
Many of us have seen the For Sale signs on the 918 F St NW windows (National Union Building). It is a 30,977 square feet office building with 7 floors and it’s located next to the new Ventana condominium. A bit of searching has led us to discover that the building has found a buyer [...]
Rolling Thunder This Weekend (Neighborhood Street Closures)
DDOT released a Traffic Advisory regarding the annual Rolling Thunder Parade set to take place this holiday weekend. The street closure list is pretty complex, so we’ll just generally summarize it like this: Sunday May 27, 2007, 10:30am – 4pm, everything between Penn Ave NW and Independence Monday May 28, 2007, morning – 5pm, everything [...]
Marching Band Takes To Neighborhood Streets – But, Who Are They?
A reader wrote in to ask: “What is up with the full-on marching band that takes to the streets every now and then? I’m talking full instrumentation, baton-twirlers, flag crews, etc. It’s people of all ages.“ The answer comes to us from the Life In Mt. Vernon Square blog: It’s the United House of Prayer [...]
Local Artists Featured Tonight In Shaw!
This hasn’t been advertised too widely, so we thought we’d post it to our blog. What: Art Show & Wine TastingWhen: 5-8pm | Thursday, May 24Where: Good Libations, 1201 5th NW Artists Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow, Marina Reiter, and J. Coleman will have their work featured at the Good Libations monthly wine tasting this Thursday [...]
Pulling An All-Nighter
Are there any 24 hour options in the Penn Quarter? If you want to stay up all night drinking cup after cup of steaming black coffee, all the while consumed in your brooding over Tropic of Cancer, do you have to sit in your own home? The all night options seem pretty limited in PQ, [...]
DC Taxicab Emergency Fare Increase Starts Today
This is probably old news for the savvy readers of this blog, still for anyone who might have missed it expect to start paying $1 more per ride in a DC Cab starting today. Apparently the increase is related to gas prices. Fare increase is in effect until September 19, 2007 “unless earlier terminated by [...]
Designing Complete Streets (Coalition for Smarter Growth Meeting Tonight)
Jason let us know that the Coalition for Smarter Growth is holding a meeting at the National Capital Planning Commission tonight. Where: 401 9th Street, NW – North Lobby, Suite 500, Washington, DCWhen: May 29, 6:00pm Refreshments, 6:30pm ProgramWhat: Join us to learn from Michael King, considered one of the country’s leading experts on innovative [...]
No Sidecars Or Mint Juleps On The Patio This Summer
Last year the Round Robin Bar in the Willard had outdoor seating on Penn Ave, at the corner of 14th ST. Weather permitting, cocktail tables were set up in the general area of this photo. Hotel employees have informed us that there will no longer be outside seating for the Round Robin Bar. Of course [...]
