Meeting Information Date: Monday, April 2, 2018 7:00pm Location: Mount Sinai Baptist Church Old Sanctuary 3rd & Q St NW   Agenda Topic & Description Presenter Time 1 Welcome, Secretary’s Report, Treasurer’s Report Brief recap of last meeting and financial condition BACA board 7:00-7:05 2 Introduction of new BACA Board Members Kyle Thomas 7:05-7:10 3 … More April BACA Meeting Agenda

There’s been some buzz about this Trader Joe’s opening at Union Market over at the Bates Facebook page. Let me post Councilmember McDuffie’s tweet here at the Bates blog. Today is the day! At 8AM sharp, the grand opening of the #OurWard5 Trader Joe’s at 350 Florida Avenue, NE. https://t.co/TcgCnJwD52 — Kenyan McDuffie (@kenyanmcduffie) March … More Trader Joe’s Union Market opening today

From: AlertDC <noreply@everbridge.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:12 AM To: ScottRoberts01@outlook.com Subject: Crime Alert 5th District (PSA 501-508)  This is an important message from the District of Columbia AlertDC system.  Alert: Stabbing in the Unit Block of O Street, NW. Lookout for a B/M, 5’6-5’7, wearing dark clothing, red shoes, and a book bag … More MPD: Stabbing on the unit block of O Street NW

Don’t worry — I won’t be posting this reminder every Sunday for the next several months! But if you have not yet added this neighborhood event to your calendar slated for Sunday, 07-29-2018, you are invited to do so now. Great to have 4th Street-Friendship Church holding another health fair. See this save-the-date message from … More have you added the Sunday, 07-29-2018, 4th Street-Friendship Seventh Day Adventist Church 2nd Annual Community Health and Fun Fair to your calendar?

From: Thomas, Bradley Ashton (SMD 5E05) <5E05@anc.dc.gov> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:46 AM Subject: ANC5E March Monthly Meeting Cancelled  Good Morning Scott: Would you please post and circulate the follow notice? Due to the impending winter storm and the fact that the Friendship Armstrong Public Charter School building will be closing early today, ANC5E … More tonight’s ANC5E meeting has been cancelled

See this tweet: Welcome to #ChapmanStables a 114 unit condominium project💫 pic.twitter.com/50VhMPQVb0 — Chapman Stables (@Chapman_Stables) March 19, 2018

See this tweet: Good to see some activity (a sign, but no permits issued yet) at the Wardman house at 4th and R in #TruxtonCircle. pic.twitter.com/bQ6Di4xBrq — Bloomingdame, pics of 🌞🌈🌕 in #BloomingdaleDC (@bloomingdame) March 18, 2018  

From Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) <5e09 anc.dc.gov=””> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:59 PM To: Barnes, Dianne (SMD 5E09) <5e09 anc.dc.gov=””> Subject: ANC 5E Monthly Public Agenda Community Awareness:  Please review and share. Respectfully Submitted By, C. Dianne Barnes, Commissioner Email:  5E09@anc.dc.gov <5e09 anc.dc.gov=””>

Click on the link to read the entire Washington Business Journal article: Michael Neibauer Associate Editor Washington Business Journal In 2005, after five years trolling Northern Virginia for stories, I was hired by a nascent daily newspaper to cover all things D.C. Our first office was a largely unfurnished floor of a downtown office building … More WBJ: Sursum Corda development – “on one hand hard to believe, and on the other, inevitable.”

Three days ago, I placed this post here at the Bates blog: See this commercial real estate transaction reported in the 03/02/2018 Washington Business Journal: James E. Clarke Substitute Trustee to 5900 LLC, 1508 North Capitol Street NW, Washington DC 20001, Lot 210 Square 615, $936,000.   This week’s Washington Business Journal, dated 03/09/2018, lists … More and 1508 North Capitol St NW just sold again … for less