Wednesday, April 01, 2009
WP: Non-Profit Settles for $100K
The Post has a story on the Institute for Behavioral Change, and how it had to pay a large settlement to the District because it billed for treatments it never provided. The Institute, which is now defunct, has/had an office on H Street. I'm told that the organization's CEO, a Mr. Mabry, is associated with a restaurant/lounge, that seeks to open at 401 H Street.
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401 H St. is supposedly the future sight of "H St. Restaurant and Lounge" run by Anthony Cornish.
Not sure what Mabry's link to Cornish is, but I do know that Cornish originally intended to run a kitchen/bartending training program for at-risk youth in the basement of his planned H St. Restaurant. Thats right, bartending....for at-risk youth.
While I know I'll get flamed for it, I can't say I'm particularly thrilled with the cast of characters that are associated with this place. Tony Richardson led a valiant fight to stop these guys from developing a restaurant/lounge at the location but the community, unfortunately, signed a Community Agreement with Cornish (thus clearing the path for him to open his restaurant/at-risk youth training facility.
Get ready for Studio 400 -- Round 2.
My guess would be that it had something to do with the mentoring/training portion of the business.
I personally do not think it is a good idea to teach bartending to at risk youth. Kitchen training is one thing but to teach a troubled young person the ins and outs of liquor is,IMHO, dumb...I already see many of the neighborhood young people handing cash to neighborhood guys to go into the liquor stores (Family Liquor for one) with their order.
One former neighborhood youth was actually caught by relatives sitting in a bar on H St in the window no less having a beer.
No at-risk youth training facility is permitted under the terms of the community agreement. The community agreement that the neighbors RELUCTANTLY signed is publicly available on ABRA's website. Yes, Tony Richardson (as well as other members of the community--he was not acting alone) led a valiant attempt to stop the 401 H Street. However, they were told, on the advice of counsel, that the best chance at controling the activities at 401 H (and preventing a Studio 400 rerun) was to sign a restrictive agreement, rather than let ABRA handover an unrestricted license.
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