RSS FeedInauguration 2009: 8 Days To Go
Inauguration Information Favorites
Everyone’s getting in on the inauguration information act…here are the links we’ve found most useful. Feel free to share yours in the comments:
Overviews
- Downtown Inauguration Update Newsletter [Downtown BID]
- Detailed Inauguration Traffic, Parking, and Pedestrian Information [the Other 35 Percent]
- 2009 Presidential Inauguration [DC Government]
- Inauguration Central [WaPo]
Transportation
- Parking Areas, Road Closures and Access Routes [DC Government]
- Inauguration Transportation Plan Released [WaPo]
- Get There [WaPo blog on DC]
Balls/Social
- Inauguration Watch: The Balls [WaPo blog filtered by Balls]
- Destination DC [Washington DC marketing site]
Food/Going Out
- Inauguration Alert: Map of 213 Restaurants, Bars and Clubs with Extended Hours [Capital Spice]
- Eats Before The Inauguration [WaPo Going Out Gurus]
Inauguration Apartment Rental Tips
The National Apartment Association reminds landlords about safe renting as they offer up Tips for Renting Units/Rooms During Inauguration Week. Always practice safe renting.
Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Ballpark District – Bridges, bridges, bridges…get your bridges here! Lots of info about the plan to upgrade the bridge infrastructure around the Nats ballpark. Have you driven around M Street SW and SE lately? Huge difference and improvement compared to a year ago. [JDLand]
Mount Vernon Triangle – Underground parking, all day, for $5. That’s less than what many pay per day on a monthly contract in their PQ garages. [The (Mount Vernon) Triangle]
Shaw/Mount Vernon Square/Penn Quarter – ANC2C has its first meeting of the new year after the elections. Doris Brooks is named chair of the ANC. Surprised? [Life In Mount Vernon Square – readout of meeting and opinion piece]
Retail Roundup: Guess, Forever 21, Vapiano’s
Guess & Forever 21 – There’s more retail coming downtown and we like it. It seems that clothing is a recurring theme along F Street with the announcement that clothing retailers Guess (known for their jeans) and Forever 21 signed 10 year leases for stores at 1155 F Street NW and 1025 F Street NW (the old Woodies building) respectively.
Vapiano’s – Other sites covered this already but it bears mentioning that Vapiano’s will open to the public on February 25 at 623-625 H Street NW.
Hat tip: Washington Biz Journal & a PQ Living reader
DNA Meeting Tomorrow Night
The Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) meetings resume tomorrow night with the first monthly meeting of the year taking place at the the Calvary Baptist Church (use the entrance at 733 8th Street, NW) between 6:30 pm and 8 pm. The agenda follows:
- update from the MPD (Public Safety Area 101 West) on public safety and Inauguration Day matters
- presentation from the Downtown Business Improvement District on the Downtown Streetscape project which includes upgrades and repairs for several sections of downtown
- Lindsey Buss, the president of Martha’s Table (www.marthastable.org), will present how his organization serves Washington, DC including the feeding of the hungry with a seven-day-a-week mobile soup kitchen that caters to the homeless and hungry throughout Washington, DC