When asked what's up with the former Blue Lotus space (next to Mayorga, under the Takoma Metro overpass), my trusty informant Roz Grigsby of the Old Takoma Business Association said that it's being built out to accommodate Soupergirl, "bringing the comfort and warmth of homemade soup directly to your door." No opening date has been set (and I'm also not sure if the space will include dine-in capability, but I sure hope it does).
UPDATE! Soupergirl proprietor Sara Polon says: "To answer your question, we will absolutely have dine-in options. Basically, this shop will be our 'hub.' We plan to greatly expand our delivery options, add more pick up locations, and also have a retail front for the neighborhood. Customers can come in and pick up cold soup to go. Or, we'll have hot soup ready to serve. Customers will be able to eat at the shop or take it to go - whatever they'd like! It will be a very relaxed atmosphere (self service - no wait staff!) - we hope people will come and visit!"
Monday, February 28, 2011
Free financial management workshop for small businesses this Thursday
The Beacon Brightwood Business Alliance has been taking measures to help our area's small businesses face the challenges that will be brought on should Wal-Mart's proposal to build on Square 2986 go through. All Brightwood area small businesses are invited to attend a free financial management workshop this Thursday evening.
What: "Managing Financial Growth of Your Business in the 21st Century"
When: Thursday, March 3, 6:30-8:30p
Where: Posse Construction Sevices, 5706 Georgia Ave. NW
The purpose of the workshop is to provide financial management tools for business owners. The workshop will cover an array of topics from building your business credit to tips on reading different types of financial statements. Additionally, Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) and the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF) will provide information about micro loans.
What: "Managing Financial Growth of Your Business in the 21st Century"
When: Thursday, March 3, 6:30-8:30p
Where: Posse Construction Sevices, 5706 Georgia Ave. NW
The purpose of the workshop is to provide financial management tools for business owners. The workshop will cover an array of topics from building your business credit to tips on reading different types of financial statements. Additionally, Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) and the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF) will provide information about micro loans.
Get your Respect DC yard sign!
Yard signs (and window signs for apartment-dwellers) that show support for the Respect DC campaign are available! If you'd like one contact thebrightwoodian @ gmail.com
About Respect DC and the Living Wages Healthy Communities Coalition: "We are working to educate community members about Walmart’s checkered track record of paying poverty-level wages, forcing competitors to close, causing a net loss of jobs, breaking its promises, and multiple lawsuits alleging that the company discriminates against female employees and engages in wage theft, including the the largest sex discrimination class action in U.S history.
"We want to ensure that no Walmart is built here unless the company shows that it respects DC by agreeing to an enforceable community benefits agreement guaranteeing that it will treat its workers with dignity, provide full-time living wage jobs with affordable health and retirement benefits, and help our neighborhoods improve their economic standing and quality of life."
This Friday: Kennedy St. community tree planting
Image: Casey Trees
When: Friday, March 4, 9a - noon
Where: Meet at Triangle Park at intersection of Kennedy St., 2nd St., and Missouri Ave. Planting will progress toward the 900 block of Kennedy Street
DDOT and Casey Trees are hosting a community tree-planting for the Kennedy St. NW business district this Friday. Head on over and help spruce up Kennedy Street...tools and safety supplies will be provided, and bagels and coffee will be served.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Rundown of development on Georgia Avenue
Courtesy of DCmud. The majority of the sites are on Lower and Middle Georgia Ave, of course. Upper GA is awaiting its turn for the Great Streets treatment.
Petworth Library grand reopening Monday
The Petworth Neighborhood Library, having undergone a $12.4 million dollar renovation, will reopen to the public on Monday (ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:30 am).
Check out TBD's sneak preview slideshow.
Check out TBD's sneak preview slideshow.
Tregoning on how GSA's spurning of Walter Reed land is a game-changer
DC Office of Planning director Harriet Tregoning was on Kojo Nnamdi's show yesterday, and she had some interesting things to say about how the land that the General Services Administration rescinded could impact Walter Reed's future redevelopment. If the city manages to acquire all of the Georgia Avenue frontage, the plan could be significantly altered to include a "major employment center," said Tregoning.
Tregoning: Well, I wish I could be a lot more specific about Walter Reed. But the federal government has not yet told us exactly how they want to dispose of the sites, so we were well along in the planning process that kind of divided the site, I would say roughly east and west. But now, it looks like we might divide it more north and south, where we would get all of the Georgia Avenue frontage potentially. So we're still talking to the army about how that's gonna happen. GSA is apparently no longer interested in any part of the site, so it's really the state department, the army and us, talking about this.
Nnamdi: General Services Administration being GSA. So all of those discussions that my neighbors and I went to were in vain?
Tregoning: No. Because we're gonna still get most of the site that we did the planning around, but it does change the picture a bit, you know, if we're able to get the entire Georgia Avenue frontage. And we might put roads in different places. We -- and then we might even look at some other, perhaps more ambitious uses, if we have a large site that could potentially be a major employment center and the ability to accommodate the transportation that would be coming to and from.
Wal-Mart was also discussed at another point during the show. Tregoning answered a question about why Wal-Mart is being "forced" on Ward 4: "Well, that's also a good question in terms of forcing it on places. I mean, basically, I wish I could say that we dictate exactly what and where things get located. We zone, and if it's a permissible use by the zoning, it really depends on whether there's a market for it." Unfortunately she didn't touch on the traffic issues that a development of its stature will bring to the Georgia/Missouri Avenue NW node; a discussion that will come up once the Large Tract Review is released.
Tregoning: Well, I wish I could be a lot more specific about Walter Reed. But the federal government has not yet told us exactly how they want to dispose of the sites, so we were well along in the planning process that kind of divided the site, I would say roughly east and west. But now, it looks like we might divide it more north and south, where we would get all of the Georgia Avenue frontage potentially. So we're still talking to the army about how that's gonna happen. GSA is apparently no longer interested in any part of the site, so it's really the state department, the army and us, talking about this.
Nnamdi: General Services Administration being GSA. So all of those discussions that my neighbors and I went to were in vain?
Tregoning: No. Because we're gonna still get most of the site that we did the planning around, but it does change the picture a bit, you know, if we're able to get the entire Georgia Avenue frontage. And we might put roads in different places. We -- and then we might even look at some other, perhaps more ambitious uses, if we have a large site that could potentially be a major employment center and the ability to accommodate the transportation that would be coming to and from.
Wal-Mart was also discussed at another point during the show. Tregoning answered a question about why Wal-Mart is being "forced" on Ward 4: "Well, that's also a good question in terms of forcing it on places. I mean, basically, I wish I could say that we dictate exactly what and where things get located. We zone, and if it's a permissible use by the zoning, it really depends on whether there's a market for it." Unfortunately she didn't touch on the traffic issues that a development of its stature will bring to the Georgia/Missouri Avenue NW node; a discussion that will come up once the Large Tract Review is released.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
MPD identifies people most likely "to be shot or shoot" -- and 39 of them are members of Ward 4 gangs
The Metropolitan Police Department has created a list of MVPs (that's Most Violent People) who are most likely "to be shot or shoot". Topping the list of MVPs are 39 members of two gangs in Ward 4, according to the Examiner.
Takoma listserv, never failing to entertain
Thread topic: "Strange canine type creature in my backyard."
Tk resident 1: "I just saw a mottled grey and brown, very skinny, short haired animal in my yard...It had a long bare tail with white hair at the very end. Looked like a cross between a chihuahua and a whippet. Was very skittish and ran away as soon as I came out the door. About 18" tall and longer."
Tk resident 2: "Could it be a possum?"
Tk resident 3: "Sounds like a skinny fox or a coyote?"
Tk resident 4: "I saw it the other day!"
Tk resident 5: "A chupacabras, perhaps?"
I'm voting for the chupacabras. Since it's obviously too small to be a Yeti or Sasquatch.
Beware the Takoma Chupacabra!
UPDATE! Latest (and most plausible) explanation is that it's a fox with mange. Animal control has been alerted. As much as I was hoping that it was indeed an odd, cryptozoological creature, I'm afraid that theory's been debunked.
Tk resident 1: "I just saw a mottled grey and brown, very skinny, short haired animal in my yard...It had a long bare tail with white hair at the very end. Looked like a cross between a chihuahua and a whippet. Was very skittish and ran away as soon as I came out the door. About 18" tall and longer."
Tk resident 2: "Could it be a possum?"
Tk resident 3: "Sounds like a skinny fox or a coyote?"
Tk resident 4: "I saw it the other day!"
Tk resident 5: "A chupacabras, perhaps?"
I'm voting for the chupacabras. Since it's obviously too small to be a Yeti or Sasquatch.
Beware the Takoma Chupacabra!
UPDATE! Latest (and most plausible) explanation is that it's a fox with mange. Animal control has been alerted. As much as I was hoping that it was indeed an odd, cryptozoological creature, I'm afraid that theory's been debunked.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
DC Bicycle Advisory Council is seeking a Ward 4 advisor
From an e-mail:
The DC Bicycle Advisory Council currently has 4 vacancies. Councilmembers Bowser (Ward 4), Alexander (Ward 7), Barry (Ward 8), and Biddle (At-large interim) each have vacancies.
Those interested shall send letters of interest and resumes to the councilmember by which they wish to be appointed. For more information, please attend the our next meeting on Wednesday, March 2nd at 6pm at 441 4th St NW 11th floor South. If you cannot attend the meeting, contact Meredith Begin for more information.
The District of Columbia Bicycle Advisory Council (BAC) is a body established by law (DC Code sec. 50-1604) to advise the Mayor and District agencies on matters pertaining to bicycling in the District, and to make recommendations to the District’s Bicycle Coordinator on the budget and focus and implementation of the District’s Comprehensive Bicycle Transportation and Safety Program.
We are particularly looking for individuals that can and will attend meetings on the first Wednesday of odd numbered months from 6pm until 8pm and also be able to actively participate in at least one of three committees which meet during even numbered months. Those committees are Safety, Education and Enforcement; Legislative; and Facilities.
If you have further questions, please contact Meredith Begin, 202-449-0401.
The DC Bicycle Advisory Council currently has 4 vacancies. Councilmembers Bowser (Ward 4), Alexander (Ward 7), Barry (Ward 8), and Biddle (At-large interim) each have vacancies.
Those interested shall send letters of interest and resumes to the councilmember by which they wish to be appointed. For more information, please attend the our next meeting on Wednesday, March 2nd at 6pm at 441 4th St NW 11th floor South. If you cannot attend the meeting, contact Meredith Begin for more information.
The District of Columbia Bicycle Advisory Council (BAC) is a body established by law (DC Code sec. 50-1604) to advise the Mayor and District agencies on matters pertaining to bicycling in the District, and to make recommendations to the District’s Bicycle Coordinator on the budget and focus and implementation of the District’s Comprehensive Bicycle Transportation and Safety Program.
We are particularly looking for individuals that can and will attend meetings on the first Wednesday of odd numbered months from 6pm until 8pm and also be able to actively participate in at least one of three committees which meet during even numbered months. Those committees are Safety, Education and Enforcement; Legislative; and Facilities.
If you have further questions, please contact Meredith Begin, 202-449-0401.
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