The September 2009 issue of the Hill Rag includes an article on the new Walker Jones Education Campus just south of the Bates area. I have pasted the first few paragraphs below of the article.
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Dropping the Anchor: New School in Northwest One Opens to Students
by Kyle Johnson
Standing on the steps of the new $50 million Walker Jones Education Campus at a mid-August ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mayor Adrian Fenty noted how close the school was to the Capitol building. The Capitol dome, about a mile away, could be seen when looking down New Jersey Avenue NW.
Walker Jones is even closer to one of the two schools the building replaced – just around the corner, actually – and signals the completion of phase one of a $700 million project to rebuild the Northwest One neighborhood. The neighborhood, bordered by North Capitol Street and New Jersey Avenue on the east and west and New York Avenue and K Street on the north and south, is also near the rapidly changing NoMA (North of Massachusetts Avenue) and Mount Vernon Triangle communities.
Bates Area Civic Association 