Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ward 5 Economic Development Summit

Press Release:

Agenda Items for the Saturday, 2/23/2008, Ward 5 Economic Development Summit

Dear Ward 5 Residents:
Please mark your calendar now to attend the Ward 5 Economic Development Summit on Saturday, February 23, from 10 am to 2:45 pm. The Summit will be held at Caldwell Hall on the Catholic University campus. Lunch will be provided.
I have planned a dynamic agenda for the Summit , including:

- A panel discussion on Stimulating Neighborhood Economic Development, moderated by Ward 5 Planner Deborah Crain. Panelists include the following: Steve Moore, WDC Economic Partnership; Derrick Woody, Great Streets initiative; Phyllis Love, Restore DC’s Main Street initiative; Vinnie Wolhfarth, Brookland CDC/Brookland Main Street ; Pat Mitchell, North Capitol Main Street ; and Ana Harvey, Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
- A mini-workshop on Negotiating Community Benefits, moderated by Collaboration DC’s Mary Jacksteit.
- An afternoon breakout session at which you will be able to meet with and ask questions of developers with projects in Ward 5. Each developer will have a table. To-date, developers for the following projects have RSVPed: Rhode Island Station; Arbor Place , McMillan Reservior; Art Space at Fort Totton ; Armed Forces Retirement Home; New Town at Capital City Market; St Paul ’s Townhome project; and the 3oth Street Townhome project; among others.


I look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions, call my office at 202.724.8028.
Sincerely,
Harry “Tommy” Thomas, Jr.
Ward 5 Councilmember

4 comments:

Alan Page said...

darn shame he can't spell "fort tottEn".

is richard layman going to be in on this? isn't he part of brookland main street? that's in ward 5, isn't it?

Anonymous said...

Little bit off topic, but in the realm of "improvement" or lack of it. The Post reports today that Metro is planning to improve the 30-line busses, but I guess the X2 didn't make the cut.

Alan Page said...

i guess if our buses led to a nice, tony area like georgetown, we'd see some improvements. sigh.

Anonymous said...

What improvements to the x2 do you want?