RSS FeedFenty 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 the DC Economic Partnership focusing on placing grocery stores at:
- Old convention center site (approx 9th & H St NW) – future site of hundreds of residential units
- Near SE area around the new baseball stadium – where several residential buildings are being constructed
- NoMa area – another future site of residential buildings
- East of the Anacostia
The only retail outlet mentioned by name is Target. Although, we’ve discussed rumors that Bloomingdale’s wants to open up in the District.
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Several years ago a number of the special police forces were given general jurisdiction to enforce DC laws. My memory is a bit shaky, but I’m fairly sure the Capitol police, Park police, FBI police, and the Secret Service uniformed division all have this jurisdiction (there may be more). As for the FBI police, they often travel between the Hoover building and their field office in Judiciary Square. But I’m still surprised the FBI would be writing parking tickets on 7th & D, unless the car was blocking some event they were concerned about.
On an almost completely unrelated note, does anyone know what the FBI is planning on doing to fix the crumbling facade on the Hoover building?
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this has nothing to do with the Fenty story – I cannot find a way to post something to this blog.
I live at the Lafayette Building, and I was puzzled when I just spotted a FBI police officer (not FBI agent, but member of the FBI police) writing up a parking ticket for a car with an expired parking meter that was parked at 7th and D NW. I always thought writing up parking tickets was the province of DC government, not of the FBI police force. Would any of you know?