At a May 24 press event held by Mayor Muriel Bowser, at which she announced a number of exciting things regarding the District’s downtown, Golden Triangle BID President and CEO Leona Agouridis and DowntownDC BID President and CEO Gerren Price spoke about the Action Plan effort and what it hopes to achieve. Watch the full […]
On June 15, the Action Plan project officially kicked off at a public event where more than 200 attendees learned about the effort and participated in brainstorming sessions. Watch the full event below. […]
To help guide the Action Plan project team throughout the effort, we have created a Steering Committee, a diverse group of more than 50 District leaders across a range of important categories, including: On June 20, this august group gathered for the first time to meet each other, discuss the Action Plan, and begin the […]
As part of the Action Plan process, the Federal City Council is hosting three webinars focused on not just current challenges within the District’s downtown, but the ways they can be overcome. For the first one, “Opportunities Ahead,” held on June 21, FCC CEO and Executive Director Anthony Williams talked with Ed Glaeser, the distinguished […]
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A Conversation About Ideas for a New Downtown Family-friendly, pedestrian-friendly, education-focused, and green No more doom and gloom. The future will be better for the D.C. downtown core, and we can make it so. That was the overall impression from the roughly 100 participants in the mid-July workshop organized by the Federal City Council and […]
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While many Washingtonians left town in early August, we were busy continuing to gather information from key stakeholders through a series of focus groups. Over 50 people with a range of perspectives on the District’s downtown participated in the meetings, which were broken up into five topic areas: residential and office space; tourism and culture; […]
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In late September, the Downtown Action Plan Steering Committee convened for a second meeting. The project team shared preliminary Action Plan vision statements, interventions, and potential geographic sectors to target, all of which are taking form based on findings from the extensive feedback process and robust research and data analysis that has been under way […]