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Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
Penn Quarter – Ford’s Theatre opens the Lincoln Center for Education and Leadership on 10th Street NW across the street from Ford’s Theatre. A 34 foot tower of books about Lincoln graces the center of the building’s spiral staircase. [NPR] & [Fox News (video above)]
Penn Quarter – Penn Camera on E Street between 8th and 9th Streets declared bankruptcy but Calumet Photo will be buying them out. Our neighborhood photo store may stay! [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – Tom Sietsema reviews Elisir on 11th Street NW. We’ve tried it and enjoyed it. [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – Jaleo at 7th and E St NW is closing on February 26 for renovations and will reopen in the spring of 2012. To be clear, the other Jaleos will remain open during this time. [Jaleo website]
Penn Quarter – The Red Apron Butchery will take over the soon to be opened space at 709 D Street NW, the long time past Union Hardware building. [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – BASIS, a charter school group from Arizona, will open a 5th to 8th grade campus this summer on 8th Street opposite the CVS. This building has been used for many schools before including serving as a branch of UDC (University of District of Columbia). [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – LivingSocial opens its non-web property (i.e. bricks and mortar) at 918 F Street NW to host all manner of events from cooking to cocktails to dance to music. [UrbanTurf]
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BASIS is moving into the historic building at 410 8th Street,originally built as a stables to house the Lansburgh Department Store’s horses. It became known as the Stables Art Center in the 1980s when the DC government rented the building and provided office space to non-profit arts groups at nominal rents. (The arts groups and some District agencies had to move out of the Lansburgh department store to make way for that building’s renovation.) The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities also moved into the Stables Art Center and the city built a black box performance space on the ground floor.
Other tenants followed – a day care center that took over the ground floor and the Hospitality Charter High School – after the DC government told the arts organizations to leave.
If the University of the District of Columbia or its predecessor the Federal City College rented space in the Stables Building, it predated the building’s rental to the city goverment for the arts groups. More likely, whoever wrote the post above confused 410 8th Street with the Mather Building, which UDC and its predecessor did occupy – the Art Department was there before they vacated and locked the Mather building.
we were referring to the UDC Practical Nursing and Nursing Assistant Programs as well as the UDC Hack Licensing programs that were run out of 410 8th St. we remember seeing the UDC logo on the ground floor windows at one point in time (maybe 2006 or 2007?).
a few links follow:
DC Hack Licensing
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Penn Camera – still trading under that name – WILL stay along with nearly all the staff we came to rely on.