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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- When did GU start using bulldogs anyway?
- Great history of the mistakes made and the neighborhood destroyed to build the Whitehurst Freeway. Plus a Morrisey quote.
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Upheaval at GSA Could Benefit Georgetown
On Monday, the Director of the General Services Administration resigned in the wake of a spending scandal that involved clowns, a mentalist, and Vegas. President Obama quickly named her successor: Dan Tangherlini.
Tangherlini should be familiar to District residents. Under Mayor Williams, he had a successful run as head of DDOT. This success led to an appointment as acting head of WMATA. Before WMATA got around to making him the permanent head, Mayor-elect Fenty hired him away as City Administrator. He made the jump to federal service in 2009 when Obama appointed him to a high ranking position in the Treasury Department, where he’s been ever since.
Lydia DePillis has already speculated that this change will be good for DC given Tangherlini’s familiarity with the city and that the GSA manages a portfolio of so many federal properties in DC. And that benefit might be felt quickly and significantly right here in Georgetown. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Reason 1,345 that Jerry McCoy and the Peabody Collection are awesome.
- GM missed this, but it could be significant: GU is buying up a large portion of “Capitol Crossing” the future development that will be built on top of I-395.
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ANC Round-Up: We Can Work it Out Edition
“Life Is Very Short, and There’s No Time For Fussing and Fighting My Friend”
Last night the ANC met for its April session and near the top of the agenda was a possibly significant development regarding the campus plan issue. A couple of other items grabbed GM’s attention as well.
Campus Plan Mediation
Ron Lewis introduced the campus plan development by inviting to the podium Erik Smulson, GU’s VP for Public Affairs, Jennifer Altemus, CAG’s President, and Edith Cecil of the Burleith Citizens Association. These are the primary parties currently locked in the never-ending campus plan fight which is currently under review by the Zoning Commission. The joint message the four groups gave is that they are taking serious steps toward mediating a resolution to the fight outside of the Zoning Commission’s process. Zoning Commission chair Anthony Hood has repeatedly expressed a wish that genuine mediation between the parties would take place, and this appears to have finally started.
The groups filed a joint request to delay the Zoning Commission’s upcoming meetings on the plan by 60 days. During this time the groups hope to reach a negotiated resolution. What terms are on the table? GM has no clue (full disclosure alert: GM is the Secretary of CAG, but as he’s mentioned in the past, he isn’t really involved in this process and that hasn’t changed with this development) . And Ron Lewis wasn’t giving any promises that a resolution could be found. But that said, it’s an encouraging sign for those of us that just want this issue behind us and don’t want to spend the next 8 years until the next plan litigating the current one. Continue reading
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Photo by Daquella Manera.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Washington Harbour still struggling after the flood.
- Not surprisingly, Georgetown’s two voter precincts have two of the three highest numbers of Republican registrations.
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Georgetown From The Sky: In the 1950s
GM loves browsing around Google Maps. It’s a quick way to survey the city without leaving the couch. And GM was particularly excited to find out that a website called historicalaerials.com archives old aerial photos and enables you to browse around them. For Georgetown, the earliest shots are from 1951.
On one level, it’s simply fascinating to stare down at the shot above and know that it’s Georgetown frozen in a moment from 61 years ago. If you could zoom in close enough, you’d see bobby soxers and woodies on the streets. And more poignantly, it could be that somewhere down there a young Congressman Kennedy could be among the small dots on the sidewalk.
As for specific sites that GM noticed:
Here you can see the historic Curtis School still standing where the Hyde-Addison playground now is. This beautiful building was torn down in 1951, the year this shot was supposedly taken. Continue reading
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Photo of Old Stone House by jnbullock.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Rumor is that Good Stuff Eatery is moving into the Crepe Amour space. GM had heard they were moving into the old Morso space, but that never came to pass.
- Jack the Bulldog better bounce back fast from his torn ACL because his replacement has already been found.
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