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We noticed a pretty nice article in the LA Times (free registration required) on changes to the Penn Quarter. This isn’t some quick blurb about places to spend your money; rather, it is a detailed article discussing the past & present of our booming neighborhood. Reading it you’ll recognize many names from our community.
Even if you don’t agree with everything the article has to say, it’s certainly nice to see the Penn Quarter getting press all over the US & abroad.
**Update**
We noticed in the Washington Post this morning an article about downtown DC as a “robust economic force.”
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Comments
Wonder why this thing that we don’t have a grocery store keeps coming up when everyone knows we’re going to get one (Safeway)? A false issue!
I moved here not long ago and also think we have a lot of services downtown: retail (Macys, H&M, Jos. A. Banks), medical (M.D.s and eye care), restaurants, transportation, dry cleaning, small markets, take out, etc. If we didn’t, it wouldn’t be booming nor would I have moved here.
The BID does a good job promoting our downtown. Keep it Up! We need boosters like you!!
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The Downtown DC BID released a working paper on how downtown serves as an economic engine/pump for DC. The home page for that document (it’s a PDF) is here
http://www.downtowndc.org/economicengine
The press release is here:
http://www.downtowndc.org/news/releases/item/dc-fiscal-health
The dramatic opener is that downtown pumps a net of $624M (2007) into DC’s government budget and accounts for the overwhelming majority of job growth in the city.