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The WMATA headquarters building at 600 5th St NW is one of those older office buildings that has found itself smack in the middle of a vibrant neighborhood. It occupies a half block without offering any ground floor retail. Not only is the architecture severely uninspiring, but it has nothing to offer the neighborhood residents and guests.
The sad thing is that the building is across the street from the Verizon Center on the west, the Building Museum on the east, several residential buildings to the north, and is diagonally located from the new Shakespeare theater. If this building weren’t owned by the DC government, it would have already been bought out and redeveloped.
The Examiner has an article explaining how WMATA is still considering relocating to Anacostia – just steps from that metro station.
We’re still waiting though – this idea has been proposed back in 2005.
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Gallery Place/Penn Quarter Building Permit Update
The office building under construction at 251 H St pours some concrete during the night and 900 7th St (old Marlo furniture building) gets a new tenant.
3/5/07
251 H ST NW
AFTER HOURS
AFTER HOURS 7PM TO 7AM FRO CONCRETE POURING. FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 TO JUNE 5, 2007.
RLA REVITILIZATION
3/6/07
900 7TH ST NW
TENANT LAYOUT
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW (1ST TIME) OFFICE SPACE ON THE 6TH FLOOR “NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION” AS PER
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMI
Want To Live In A Museum?
You won’t quite be like Ben Stiller in Night At The Museum but you can now get in line for the Newseum apartments. Wolfgang Puck’s new restaurant, The Source, will be downstairs as will be the Newseum itself. More culture than you can shake a stick at.
Washington Improv Theater Special Guests Include Police Commander & PQNA Executive Director!
The WIT has come up with something special for residents of Penn Quarter! The next two showings of The Interview are going to include some prominent figures of our neighborhood:
3.17 | Commander Diane Groomes
(Metropolitan Police Department)
3.24 | Jo-Ann Neuhaus
(Penn Quarter Neighborhod Assn)
The way the show works: at the start of the show the special guest is interviewed about their life/job/etc and that material is used as the subject for the rest of the totally improvised comedy performance. The guest is interviewed at least 2 times, so it will definitely be a unique experience to meet our neighborhood leaders in an informal way.
Tickets are available here and are only $12.