Archive for December, 2007
Ho? Ho! Ho???
Walking around the city last night we noticed that some jokers at the Caucus Room had Dasher & Vixen playing reindeer games in one of the restaurant’s 9th Street windows. Not the most creative holiday window display we’ve seen this year, but to borrow a phrase: we report, you decide.
What To Put On The DC Coin?
The Post has a story this morning about how DC (and Puerto Rico, and Guam, and…) will get a “State” quarter in 2009. No design has been finalized & according to the article Mayor Fenty says the design will include “maximum resident input.” So what would our fellow PQ’ers put on the coin? Electronic […]
MLK Library to become a Bloomingdale’s?
DCist has an interesting post about the possibility of the MLK Public Library becoming a Bloomingdale’s. Apparently, the chain has been searching for a new location within the District proper. DCist declares this possibility “a bad idea” but luckily, “a bad idea that is unlikely to come to pass.”
Old Convention Center Redevelopment Financing Announced
Yesterday, the Washington Business Journal reported on the more technical aspects of the Old Convention Center redevelopment plan and the associated $850 million financing (City, developers agree on financing plan for old convention site – WBJ). There’s a 57,300 square foot plot on the site the city is retaining control over and our read of […]