Downtown DC/Penn Quarter Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Happy Friday all! Here’s what we’re reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
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Events/News
Downtown – The community is requested to provide comments on the options for redesigning Franklin Park. [National Park Service – Franklin Park Project homepage] & [Comment page]
Chinatown/Penn Quarter – An interesting story on the Tandem Legal Group, a law firm that took over the space LivingSocial occupied early on at 829 7th St NW. [WaPo]
Downtown/Penn Quarter – The Streets of Washington profiled both the histories of both the Pension Building (now the National Building Museum) and the old Ambassador Hotel (now gone, formerly at 14th and K St NW). [SoW – Pension Building] & [SoW – Ambassador Hotel]
Development
Mount Vernon Triangle – The Mount Vernon Triangle Community Improvement District (MVTCID) unveiled their new website. [MVTCID website]
Restaurants/Food
Penn Quarter – The Red Apron Butcher opened this week at 709 D St NW. Yum, yum! [Penn Quarter Living]
Penn Quarter – Bodogs at 614 E St NW has a new website, tables for outside dining, and now offers beer on their menu. Just in time for the warm up we hope to get in March. [Bodogs website]
Downtown – Richard Sandoval (Zengo) will open a Thai restaurant called Mango Tree in CityCenter. [Washington Business Journal]
(We’ll have a dedicated CityCenter update coming soon as there’s lots going on there to mention.)
Crib of the Week (CotW)
We don’t have a Crib of the Week but we did see an interesting update on the condos sold at CityCenter. Recorded prices for sold units have ranged from $417K to $1.7M so far. [Washington Business Journal]
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