Preview of the Month: 1423 New Jersey Ave., NW This is a beautifully renovated 3 bedroom, two full baths and a half-bath house. With hardwood floors and granite counter-tops, this house is a nice find to be close to all of the “happenings” at 5th and K. A short 4 block walk to the new … More Truxton Circle June Real Estate Update
Monday night’s good news is that BACA found out formally that City Hall has approved a plan for the Cook School building on P Street NW. The bad news is that it’s not the project we thought we were going to get. The word was that KIPP was going to open another of its schools … More Storm Over Cook
From Ryan on 3rd St: The newest issue of Rolling Stone magazine is what they call the “Hot Issue”. In it, the editors tell us what they feel is “hot” in the worlds of music, movies, politics, society, etc. They even went as far as naming a “Hot Hood”. Guess who won? Shaw/Logan Circle. Check … More Rolling Stone Mag says Shaw is “hot”
Join North Capital Main Street, Inc. (NCMS) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to Improve the North Capital Main Street Business Corridor NCMS invites you to be a part of the ULI Technical Assistance Study for the North Capital Main Street business corridor. Come and discuss corridor issues with a panel of professionals selected by … More Join ULI to Discuss North Capitol Street Corridor Issues — Wednesday, 6/17/2009
Committee Reports: (a) Caryn Nesmith, Jon Hasse and Peter Katel will give the Public Relations Committee report. The Committee continues to be interested in receiving feedback from residents about the content and user friendliness of the BACA Blog. In addition, they would like to have your help in promoting its existence within your circle of … More BACA Meeting Reminder: Monday, June 1, 2009
Come out and help beautify our neighborhood as we prepare for the Flower Power Garden Walk next month! On June 6th, we will be outside starting at 9am, picking up litter, pulling weeds, and tidying up our blocks. We’ll meet at 1st and P Sts, by the Armstrong School, to begin, but feel free to … More Community clean-up June 6th!
I posted before about the Latin American School to go into the old JF Cook School at Unit and P St. However, it seems instead it is a Youth Center. Mai Fernandez, the director, will be speaking about it at next Monday’s BACA meeting. I don’t know anything about it but their web site is … More New Latin American Youth Center
From Pete on Bates: Does anyone know how to report graffiti and order its removal?
From Ted McGinn: Dear BFM Fans: Full market this week. ALL our producers are back and Lots of new things at market on Sunday: TRY OUR NEW FARMERS’ MARKET ATM Yep, we now take debit cards at the market! Just come see Holly at the market table and see how it works. You swipe your … More This week’s farmer’s market goods
I am pretty delinquent on updating a lot of spaces on this blog. Calendar: there are many things I’m blogging about that I need to put on the calendar page. Home Improvements: Trying to put folks as i see them listed elsewhere. News: We’ll see what I do with this page; it’s just sort of … More Help me to blog
Bates Area Civic Association 