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Leadership Change
The DowntownDC BID has new Board of Directors officers and members for fiscal year 2012...
Exemplary Leadership
The very elegant and stunning National Gallery of Art (NGA) hosted the December SAM of the Month meeting. The NGA staff dispensed warm hospitality to the SAMs and other DowntownDC BID employees by providing a tour, reception and a historical video of the Gallery...
More Work to Go Around
The DowntownDC BID office is happy to introduce two new staff members: Blake Holub and Roz Christina Moore...
Tough Decisions
What to do about DC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G Street), also known as MLK Library, and its 440,000-gross-square-foot (GSF) building was the subject of a well-attended public meeting on Friday, November 18...
Monitoring Protest Areas
With Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square occupied by demonstrators, the DowntownDC BID has deployed additional members of its Safety/Hospitality and Maintenance team (SAMs), to remove litter and trash and help keep the visitor experience in the heart of the Nation’s Capital pleasurable...
A Host of Bright Ideas
We won’t know until early next year who’s been selected to redevelop the Old Post Office Pavilion (1100 Pennsylvania Avenue). Although the business community had until July 20 to submit proposals to the General Services Administration (GSA)...
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Creating a Green City
Got ideas for greening DC? The District government wants to hear from you. The Office of Planning (OP) and the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) are launching Sustainable DC, a strategic citywide sustainability plan...
Road and Tunnel Repair Update
Construction progress is being made on the K Street, H Street and Massachusetts Avenue bridges over I-395—as well as the 3rd Street Tunnel—that began in mid-October. Some updates and helpful information from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)...
More Chinatown Changes
The DC Office of Planning (OP) recently released the draft Chinatown Public Realm Plan, a follow-up to the 2009 Chinatown Cultural Development Strategy, a Small Area Plan approved by the DC City Council...
Not To Be Missed
Second Time Around
Just in case you missed it, you’re in luck! Many restaurants have extended Washington, DC Restaurant Week beyond Sunday, January 15. Participating restaurants will continue to serve a three-course prix fixe lunch ($20.12), dinner ($35.12) or both, excluding tax, gratuity and beverages...
Highway Rivalry
What’s cool, shiny, bright, smooth and revving up to take Downtown DC by storm? Cars! And plenty of them when the Washington Auto Show, DC’s largest public exhibition, rolls into the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon Pl.) on Friday, January 27 and dazzles guests through Sunday, February 5...
The Magic Dragon
This is the Year of the Dragon, which will be quite evident at the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade, taking place on Sunday, January 29, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, on H and I streets, between 6th and 8th streets in Chinatown...
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