A new coalition of some of D.C.’s biggest developers and businesses are pushing lawmakers to consider massive tax breaks as part of any post-pandemic recovery plan, saying that without significant government help the city’s restaurants and!-->…
Under a new mayor’s order, the Metropolitan Police Department now has the authority to operate as the city’s sole federal firearms licensee, or FFL—the only entity able to authorize the transfer of guns inside the District.
The main convention center in the nation's capital will soon undergo a construction project to turn it into a healthcare facility to treat coronavirus patients.
D.C. developers continue to pursue new affordable housing projects for seniors, with the latest one planned near the Skyland Town Center development in Southeast D.C.
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the District Department of Transportation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 20, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Lauren Stephens (DDOT)
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Despite a pandemic, love remains in the air. As the region continues to attempt to flatten the curve, local jurisdictions are turning to innovative, socially distant ways to process marriage licenses and even perform wedding ceremonies.
The Georgetown Business Improvement District’s Employee Emergency Relief Grant program has partnered with Georgetown nonprofit Halcyon to replenish the grant program’s funds.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday the District will convert 473,000 square feet of space at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center into a roughly 1,200-bed field hospital for COVID-19 patients.
For two weeks, Laura Peterson waited for the Watergate East apartments to cancel an April 1 meeting for residents. But even as a pandemic swept through the capital and the death toll climbed, her 240-unit co-op did not yield.
Despite protests in Annapolis and Richmond against executive stay-at-home orders, business and labor leaders in the Washington region are adamant that scientists and public health experts should have the biggest say in deciding when and!-->…
While many people are staying home to flatten the curve, D.C.’s nurses are on the front-line of battle as they care for patients with the deadly coronavirus.
A federal judge on Sunday ordered the D.C. jail to immediately overhaul health, sanitation and social distancing measures for 1,400 prisoners in the nation’s capital to combat climbing infection rates of the novel coronavirus, while!-->…