Want to learn what it takes to be a “Smart City?” Attend the second annual Smart Cities Week Sept. 27-29 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. At this event, you will explore […]

The DowntownDC Business Improvement District’s (BID) Director of Economic Development Gerry Widdicombe will serve on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Working Group on Jobs, Wages, and Benefits (WGJWB). The WGJWB will “draft […]

Attend a public forum Sept. 20 with Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld and a panel of experts including DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) President and Executive Director Neil O. […]

Imagine having enough elbow room in the heart of Chinatown to sit back and take in the scene along 7th Street, one of DowntownDC’s most happening corridors. On PARK(ing) Day Sept. 16, […]

The Metropolitan Police Department on August 22 made an arrest in the hateful graffiti case that for several weeks plagued the artistic Chinatown Crossing in DowntownDC at the intersection of 7th and […]

The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) hosted seven talented youth this summer as part of D.C.’s Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP).   This summer marked the 13th year […]

Anti-semitic graffiti defacing the Chinese Zodiac inspired artwork painted in the 7th and H street Chinatown crosswalk first came to the attention of the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) during the […]

The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) Ambassadors headed to the Church of the Epiphany (1317 G Street NW) in July to learn about this historic landmark in Downtown and get a brief […]