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Downtown & Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association Meetings Next Week
Both of our neighborhood association meetings will take place next week. The first one is on March 10th for the Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) and the second meeting is on March 11 for the Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association (PQNA). Here are the details: Downtown Neighborhood Association Tuesday, March 10th, 6:30pm 733 8th Street, NW (Calvary […]
Segway Face
We won’t lie; we thought we had coined a new phrase. Google quickly proved us wrong, Segway Face has been mentioned at least once before back in 2007, and there may be times other than that. While we love the definition on that page (especially this part: “Doesn’t everyone ride one of these to pick […]
Does Yelp Do The PQ Justice?
<Yelp article in NYT begged the question, how does Yelp treat the PQ and its businesses> <spread of reviews: 540 spots – 32 have 10 or more review> <http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090322/ap_on_hi_te/tec_social_web_growing_pains> <one reviewer reviewed Pepco with an average of 1.5 stars…how many people are going to rave about the power company – any power company, no reviews […]
To Challenge Your Property Tax Assessment Or Not?
By now, most PQ condo owners should have received their 2010 Real Property Tax Assessment Change Notice from the DC Office of Tax and Revenue in the mail. According to OTR’s website, Penn Quarter (assumed to be part of the “Central” neighborhood in this PDF), fared well in the past year and averaged a 1.73% increase in property value […]