1055 High Condos Sell Out
• June 19, 2014

The Georgetowner’s most recent featured property, located at 1055 Wisconsin Ave., NW, is no longer on the market. The seven luxurious condominium units were priced at $3.6 million to $5.5 million, roughly over $1,000 per square foot, and were sold in just three weeks to seven all-cash buyers, according to the Washington Business Journal.

Developed by EastBanc, Inc., the mostly residential complex overlooks the C&O Canal and is still under construction. The building is estimated to be completed in the fall.

It features spacious floor plans for living and entertaining, chef-designed kitchens, 24-hour staffed services, spa-inspired bathrooms, hardwood floors, a 45-foot heated pool and landscaped roof terrace. Each unit has a private terrace or balcony and parking for two cars.

The pricing of the units was released May 20, followed by group tours. The first contract was signed just ten days later. The Washington Business Journal reported that there were multiple offers on each of the seven units.

Reading of ‘Ulysses’ Climaxes Tonight at Georgetown Public Library
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In honor of Bloomsday, an annual celebration of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Georgetown Public Library has been hosting a reading marathon of the novel. The readings began June 9, and tonight will mark the finale of reading the book at the library on R Street.

Bloomsday is celebrated June 16 because it is the anniversary of Joyce’s first date with his wife, Nora Barnacle and also the day that the plot of the novel is based upon.
The innovative novel, filled with literary devices, is a timely account of Leopold Bloom’s day in Dublin in 1904. The sometimes difficult to fathom “Ulysses” is considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time.

Herb Guggenheim, a local writer and psychotherapist, has assembled 30 actors and scholars who will alternate in reading the Ulysses aloud to the audience. Tonight, Laura Baxtor, a well-known opera singer will read the last chapter.

“We are thrilled to feature Laura Baxter as Molly Bloom in this year’s reading. At the end of ‘Ulysses,’ Molly Bloom’s soliloquy is the most dramatic part of the book, and Laura Baxter is the perfect performer to bring Molly to life.” Guggenheim wrote of the event on his website.

In addition, an evening seminar on James Joyce and “Ulysses” by Collin Owens, a professor emeritus at George Mason University, is scheduled Monday night at S. Dilion Ripley Center (1100 Jefferson Dr., SW) from 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Owens will offer his personal insight by discussing the distinctive literary language presented in the novel.

BID Report: Optimistic Assessment of Georgetown’s Economy
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The Georgetown Business Improvement District released the second edition of the State of Georgetown Report 2014 at its annual membership meeting June 10 at Pinstripes.

As a part of the Georgetown 2028 plan, which was released last year, this year’s Georgetown BID report examined statistics about core features of the Georgetown economy, including demographics, transportation, office activity, retail market and tourism in town.

“Businesses in our [BID] district are thriving,” said Josh Hermias, the Georgetown BID Economic Development Director. “As D.C.’s densest retail market place, our local businesses are currently supporting 13,000 jobs.” According to the Georgetown BID, there were 11,000 jobs in the BID area in 2010. There has been an 18-percent increase in jobs from 2010 to 2013.

The report said that about 26 percent of jobs within the BID area fall under the professional, scientific and technical services sector. Other sectors that had a net gain in jobs created include: real estate (which had a net gain of 15 percent), accommodation and food services (a net gain of 11 percent), retail trade (a net gain of 34 percent).

The retail market in Georgetown is booming. Last year, Georgetown gained 18 new retail stores, including Billy Reid, Frye, Goorin Bros, Hat Shop and Steven Alan. According to the report, there are more than 450 shops, restaurants and salons all within a quarter square mile of the historic district. – further evidence that Georgetown contains the city’s densest retail area.

The tourism sector is also on the rise. With six hotels in Georgetown, the total revenue that hotels have made in 2013 grew seven percent from 2012, generating 64 million dollars in total revenue.

The report also highlights the transportation system in town and how it is shifting to meet the needs of young workers (ages 20 to 24) who have become the dominant demographic in the district. Apart from the BID’s effort for a Georgetown Metro station, the 2028 plan will consist of plans to make Georgetown a bicycle-friendly destination as Capital Bikeshare trips are on a constant rise.

After the presentation of the annual report, Jeff Reid, founding director of Georgetown University’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, spoke to the audience and explained his career as a professor in the business school at Georgetown University and the impact that entrepreneurship is making in Georgetown.

“As an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, I cannot stress enough the importance of educating students about entrepreneurship and the impact that it is making in our community.” Reid said.

Reid also pointed out the fact that many of the businesses in Georgetown are owned by entrepreneurs, who stepped out of complacency into creative ideas.

For more details on the Georgetown 2028 report, [click here](http://www.georgetowndc.com/customer_media/2028-plan-agenda_1-29.pdf).

America Salutes the Flag
• June 13, 2014

“. . . May the heaven-rescued land praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation,” wrote Georgetown lawyer Francis Scott Key on Sept. 14, 1814. America had dodged a bullet, bombs bursting in air and the rocket’s red glare 200 years ago.

Key exalted at the sight of the huge American flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, waving at Fort McHenry, Maryland. Unable to pass the fort and attack Baltimore, the British Royal Navy ceased its bombardment and withdrew. Within five months, the War of 1812 was over, and America re-ignited its growth to greatness.

The exaltation of Key and America at the time — which cannot be overestimated — guaranteed Americans’ love of the flag and of the national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

For Georgetowners, it is personal — Francis Scott Key was a Georgetowner who left his house and large family on M Street, as instructed by the White House, to negotiate the release of William Beanes, who was held by the British. In meeting with navy officers, Key was detained on a British ship near Fort McHenry, because the bombardment was soon to begin. Key witnessed the pounding and shaking the fort took and Baltimore felt.

The plan was to cut the very young nation in half. Remarkably, it was America that declared war on Britain, seen as preventing westward expansion, blocking trade and harassing on the high seas. The war was not going well. Key, a member of the Georgetown Artillery, commanded by Major George Peter of Tudor Place, was at the Battle of Bladensburg– and later witnessed the burning of Washington in August 1814. The morning of Sept. 14, 1814, shone as an amazing reversal of fortune.

Key’s lyrics for the defense of Fort McHenry, printed in a Baltimore newspaper two days after the September confrontation, “went viral” — to use a 21st-century phrase — up and down the East Coast. Immediately popular, “The Star-Spangled Banner” has never lagged in its ability to move Americans.

That flag from 200 years ago is less than three miles away at the Museum of American History from where Key lived in Georgetown.

While the song can take a beating from anyone who sings it, the flag cannot. The museum embarked on a conservation of the flag in 1998. It finally re-emerged in 2008 in a new display and renovated museum. It is one of those things considered sacred by Americans.

Why is the flag supremely important to Americans? Its image over the decades across the nation and the world, across voyages and wars, can move the toughest of us to tears — it is a unifying force for all Americans. More recently, such energy was felt after the September 11 attacks.

“Two hundred years ago, Francis Scott Key, inspired by the sight of the flag’s ‘broad stripes and bright stars,’ wrote a song that gave new significance to a national symbol and started a tradition through which Americans have invested the flag with their own meaning and memories,” said John L. Gray, director of the museum. “It is an honor for the museum to be the home of the Star-Spangled Banner and to preserve it for future generations.”

To observe the time 200 years ago, when the flag and the song proved one of America’s greatest moments, the museum announced that from Flag Day, June 14, through July 6, “the Maryland Historical Society is lending Francis Scott Key’s original manuscript of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ lyrics, uniting it for the first time with the flag Key saw at ‘dawn’s early light.’ Visitors will be able to see the 30-by-34-foot flag and the manuscript, side-by-side in the banner’s environmentally controlled chamber at the museum.”

One of the citizens who helped with the Star-Spangled Banner conservation in a huge way was fashion designer Ralph Lauren. He and his company donated more that $13 million to complete the work on the tattered, fragile flag, which originally measured 30 by 42 feet. Lauren, whose designs are inspired by Americana and the flag, considers the Star-Spangled Banner “our greatest American treasure.”

For his work, the Smithsonian will honor Lauren three days after Flag Day festivities. On June 17, the Smithsonian noted that “it will present designer Ralph Lauren, son of immigrants, with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal during a naturalization ceremony welcoming 15 new Americans. The medal recognizes Lauren’s lifetime contributions to American artistry, entrepreneurship, creativity and vision. Lauren also played a leadership role in the preservation of the Star-Spangled Banner.”

“I love this country. I love being an American. My earliest memories of the Star-Spangled Banner was the flag that flew from the flagpole in the school across the street from my childhood home in the Bronx where we played baseball and basketball. I remember pledging allegiance to the flag each morning in school. It was a simpler time, after a world war, when those broad stripes and bright stars stood for our homeland and the freedom and hope it brought to every American,” wrote Lauren in the forward to “The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon.” Such enthusiasm for the flag will continue this Flag Day, as the National Museum of American History celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner with “Raise it Up! Anthem for America.”

––According to the museum, “Artists such as Aloe Blacc, Renée Fleming, Angie Johnson and Brian McKnight are encouraging Americans to take part in the museum’s coast-to-coast celebration in a national sing-a-long event for people to come together and sing their anthem at 4 p.m. EDT. Details are at anthemforamerica.si.edu.”

Across America, many groups are coming together for the celebration — the National Park Service, Little League, Girl Scouts and the Kennedy Center. On the museum’s Mall terrace, Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre will conducts a 500-person choir in performance of “America the Beautiful;” MacArthur fellow Francisco J. Núñez will conduct “Lift Every Voice,” with commander and conductor Col. Larry Lang directing the U.S. Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants.

To continue this Star-Spangled summer, this newspaper — which helped to start the foundation which completed the Francis Scott Key Park on M Street in 1993 — invites its readers to send impressions of and moments with the flag to Editorial@Georgetowner.com.

There will also be more stories about the events of the summer of 1814, whether it is the British attack on Washington, the story of James and Dolley Madison, the loss of Key’s house on M Street in 1947 and the ultimate meaning of America’s Second War of Independence, which has led to centuries of peace between the U.S., Great Britain and Canada.

We recommend and will review Steve Vogel’s remarkable book, “Through the Perilous Fight: From the Burning of Washington to the Star-Spangled Banner: The Six Weeks That Saved the Nation.”

Meanwhile, appreciate the ultimate fabric from the War of 1812, our flag, and its song — “The Star-Spangled Banner” — ?”Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” [gallery ids="101751,141594,141597" nav="thumbs"]

End of a Rocky Road for Serendipity 3 in D.C.
• June 12, 2014

Georgetown’s sweets-and-gifts restaurant, Serendipity 3, closed its doors June 3 due to a lawsuit with the landlord, 3150 M Street LLC, who is allegedly owed more than $98,000 in rent, utilities and other fees.

The iconic location was home to Nathan’s Restaurant & Bar for more than 40 years before transforming into Georgetown’s spot for “Frrrozen Hot Chocolate” and hamburgers. Since its opening in May 2011, the home of the decadent $1,000 “golden opulence” sundae has had a bumpy ride.

After just a year in business, a disagreement between the owners caused the M Street restaurant to close temporarily. Washingtonian Magazine reported that co-owner Charles Britton Swan, who owns Rhino Bar, Modern and Sign of the Whale was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department on assault and felony threat charges. He and co-owner Rodrigo Garcia were arguing when Garcia called 911, after claiming he was being threatened by Swan.

In its second year in the heart of Georgetown, Serendipity 3 was closed briefly due to three health code citations from the D.C. Department of Health.

The co-owners of the restaurant have been sued three other times this year, twice in small claims court over unpaid linen rentals and additional fees, and once in civil court.

Garcia and Swan operated the restaurant through a licensing agreement with the Serendipity 3 brand, whose flagship restaurant is located in Manhattan. Its founder, Stephen Bruce, a former fashion designer, had grown increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of service at the Georgetown location, and rather than meeting his standards, the co-owners chose to shut down, according to a statement released by Bruce’s attorney Kieran Doyle.

Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank purchased the M Street building for $12.25 million in February. Rumors of the sports apparel shop moving into the space have abounded since Serendipity’s closing, but plans for this location’s future are not yet clear.

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Homeless Student Earns Full Scholarship to Georgetown University
• June 9, 2014

Rashema Melson, the Anacostia High School senior who has lived in a homeless shelter for the past two years, has gained local fame for the perseverance that she displayed in academics. Georgetown University has offered the 18-year-old girl a full scholarship for the excellence she displayed in graduating from high school with a 4.0 grade point average.

Melson has lived in the homeless shelter, which used to be D.C. General Hospital, where missing eight-year-old Relisha Rudd once lived.

“We have selected Rashema Melson for the resilience that she portrayed in her academic career. Despite the tough personal background she comes from, she pulled through and displayed excellence,” said Cinthya Salaz, director of Georgetown University’s Community Scholars Program.

Melson is eligible for two scholarships: the Community Scholars program, a scholarship program offered to bring ethnic diversity to Georgetown’s campus and the 1789 Scholarship, a scholarship funded by the alumni, parents and friends of Georgetown University to retain students who display excellence in academics.

“In order for a candidate to be invited into the Community Scholars program, the applicant must have a nomination from their high school admission counselor,” Salaz said. “When the application proceeds, the application goes through review by our team. Every year we receive about 150 applicants and only 60 percent make it through.”

As a part of Georgetown University’s effort to create a support system for new students, Melson plans to attend a five-week-long summer school program to get ahead in her undergraduate studies in biology.

“We are excited to bring diversity into our school by offering excellent students from the District the opportunity to be enrolled in our school,” said Charlene Brown-McKenzie, director of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access at the university.

Maya Angelou: a Vivid, Grounded, Transcendent American Woman
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At the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Dupont Circle, the Shakespeare Guild, hosted by John Andrews, was sponsoring a talk and back-and-forth between actors Ed Gero and Stacy Keach, who were starring at the Shakespeare Theater Company in the two parts of “Henry IV”, playing the title role and Falstaff, respectively.

It was high-spirited talk and theater memories—about Keach playing Falstaff for Joe Papp in Shakespeare in the Park when he was in his twenties, Gero taking on Bolingbroke twice in different productions of “Richard II.” But in the end, because this was the week that it was, Gero got up and read from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” He spoke crisply and with emotion, because the day before, the poem’s author Maya Angelo had died at the age of 86. That news meant a lot to a lot of people, including the people here to talk about Shakespeare and acting and fathers and sons, and lines and words written by the man—William Shakespeare—whom Angelou once called “my first white love.”

If words were enough—that is writing lasting words in the form of several memoirs, many, many poems, written, recited, remembered—as achievements honored and remembered, then Angelou would be in a pantheon of the many: those gifted writers of songs, plays, novels, memoirs, histories and tales we tell ourselves down the generations. She would be among the finest practitioners, no question, and she has always been accredited in this way.

But there was more to Angelou than her status as a poet, wordsmith or writer, because she was and remains a source of inspiration not just for what she wrote, but for the life she lived — a life richly lived. Her life was the source of all the words, her youth growing up in segregated Arkansas, an African-American girl growing up in the American South were the signs of separation were everywhere, crept into your mind walking around town, bending over to get a drink of water

She wrote words, sure she did. But she did things. She had a voice that was hard to forget as a young girl by all accounts, but also as an icon, as a woman pulling the beautiful words of “On the Pulse of Morning” out into the cold inaugural air when Bill Clinton became president in January 1993: “Here on the pulse of this new day/you may have the grace to look up and out/and into your sisters eyes, into/your brother’s face, your country/and say simply/very simply/with hope/
Good morning”.

She was at some point or another a singer, a dancer, an actress—see that challenging woman in “Roots”—a mother, a wife, a number of times, a streetcar conductor. She once toured 22 countries in a production of “Porgy and Bess.” She was a traveler, a civil rights activist, and a symbol for young, and not so young African-American women just about everywhere.

She was just plain vivid. If her voice was sometimes angry, it was also pushing forward, encouraging women to do more than just keep on keeping on, to aspire, to achieve, and always recognize unfairness and injustice for what they were.

Her poem, “And I Rise,” flies out like a sharp bird, challenging everyone not to accept, to be themselves: “Does my haughtiness offend you?/Don’t you take it awful hard/’cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines/Diggin’ in my own back yard.”

Women who became teachers, who rose, too, like the sun and famous people and mothers raising children were inspired by her, as was our current National Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, herself a mighty poet.

She wrote, in the 1970s, the first of several memoirs and the most memorable: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” She became after a while, and into time, an icon who transcended race while bringing it to the fore, and everyone, at some point or another, listened to her, and thought about what she said. She didn’t lack honor or honors.

So, on a Thursday afternoon, Gero, who had played Scrooge and painters, and kings and princes and blinded dukes began and then ended:

“The caged bird sings/with a fearful trill/of things unknown/but longed for still/and his tune is heard/on the distant hill/for the caged bird/

Sings of freedom.”

ANC 2E to Meet Monday, June 2
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The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E will be meet June 2 at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 35th Street and Volta Place, NW, Heritage Room, Founders Hall, first building on left by gatehouse, second floor.

Approval of the Agenda

• Approval of June 2, 2014, ANC 2E Public Meeting Agenda

Administrative

• Approval of April 28, 2014, Meeting Minutes

• Designation of ANC 2E Secretary

• Public Safety and Police Report

• Financial Report – Approval of 2nd Quarterly Financial Report 2014

• Transportation Report

• DPW Report

Community Commendation

• Commendation for Francisco Fimbres

Community Comment

• Status of Hyde-Addison School construction plans

New Business

• Proposed school boundary change for Burleith residents

• American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure – September 27, 2014

• 34th Annual Four Seasons Sprint Four the Cure 5K – September 20, 2014

• Bike and pedestrian safety on K and Water Streets, NW

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• Request by Safeway to amend a Settlement Agreement to change permitted sales hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The following establishments are not anticipated to be reviewed by ANC 2E. Please contact ANC 2E by Friday, May 30, if you have an issue.

• 1201 28th Street, NW, Das Ethiopian, License No. ABRA-086644, Substantial change application closing change from 11pm to 2am (Petition Date June 16)

• 1338 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Smith Point, License No. ABRA-060131, Substantial change application (class change from CR to CT license) (Petition Date June 16)

• 3003 M Street, NW, I-Thai — license renewal (Petition Date June 2)

DDOT Public Space

• 3050 K Street, NW, DDOT Tracking Number 10128676, Fiola Mare, Application for a valet staging zone

Zoning

• 2709 N Street, NW, Alexander Memorial Baptist Church, BZA Application No. 18780, Application for variances from the lot area, lot occupancy, rear yard, and side yard requirements to convert a church into two one-family dwellings, (Hearing Date June 17)

Old Georgetown Board

MAJOR AND PUBLIC PROJECTS SMD 06, 2715 N Street NW, OG 14-143 (HPA 14-283) Alexander Memorial Baptist Church – Rectory, Alterations, Concept

SMD 06, 2709 and 2717 N Street NW, OG 14-225 (HPA 14-430) Alexander Memorial Baptist Church – Church and Vacant Lot, Alterations and New Construction, Concept

G?overnment of the District of Columbia, DC DDOT, Various locations, Bike Racks on streets or sidewalks

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Government of the District of Columbia, Department of General Services, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, Rose Park, Alterations to playground, ADA ramp, Concept

SMD 05, 3601-3607 M Street, NW, OG 14-113 (HPA 14-220) Residential, New building, Concept

PRIVATE PROJECTS

1. SMD 03, 1525 34th Street, NW, OG 14-205 (HPA 14-410) Residence, Site

work at front yard: fences, storage bins, walkway, gates – existing, Permit

2. SMD 03, 1519 35th Street, NW, OG 14-223 (HPA 14-428) Residence, Alterations to rear, Concept, For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

3. SMD 03, 3225 N Street, NW, OG 14-196 (HPA 14-399) Residence, Alterations to basement entrance, Concept

4. SMD 03, 3265 N Street, NW, OG 14-187 (HPA 14-380) Residence, Alterations to rear, addition, Permit

5. SMD 03, 3265 N Street, NW, OG 14-209 (HPA 14-414) Residence, Alterations to garage, Concept

6. SMD 03, 3310 Volta Place, NW, OG 14-203 (HPA 14-407) Residence, Replacement windows and door, alterations to rear, Concept

7. SMD 05, 3000 K Street, NW, OG 14-179 (HPA 14-350) Mixed-use, Outdoor café, alterations to storefront, awnings, signs – Mama Rouge, Permit

8. SMD 05. 3000 M Street, NW, OG 14-130 (HPA 14-270) Mixed-use, Partial demolition, addition, alterations, Revised Concept

9. SMD 05, 3328 M Street, NW, OG 14-221 (HPA 14-426) Commercial, Awnings at 2nd floor windows, sign, banner – Calligaris, Permit

10. SMD 05, 3410 Prospect Street, NW, OG 14-206 (HPA 14-411) Residence, Alterations to rear, terraces, Concept

11. SMD 06, 2929 M Street, NW, OG 14-182 (HPA 14-354) Commercial, Alterations at ATM, Concept

12. SMD 06, 3061 M Street, NW, OG 14-195 (HPA 14-397) Commercial, Alterations to storefront, Concept

13. SMD 06, 2919 Dumbarton Street, NW, OG 14-219 (HPA 14-424) Residence, Replace roof, rooftop mechanical equipment, Permit

14. SMD 07, 1607 31st Street, NW, OG 14-183 (HPA 14-358) Residence, Rebuild retaining wall and wood fence, Concept

15. SMD 07, 2611 P Street, NW, OG 14-212 (HPA 14-417) Commercial/Residence, Replacement windows, awning and blade signs – Poliform – Sagart Studio, Concept

16. SMD 07, 2500 Q Street, NW, OG 14-188 (HPA 14-385) Gateway Georgetown Condominiums, Rooftop antennas and enclosure (for Verizon), Permit

17. SMD 07, 2823 Q Street, NW, OG 14-152 (HPA 14-321) Residence, Replace door surround, Permit

18. SMD 07, 2911 Q Street, NW, OG 14-180 (HPA 14-351) Residence, Green roof on garage, site alterations, fences, Permit

19. SMD 07, 2913 Q Street, NW, OG 14-181 (HPA 14-352) Residence, Replacement fence, site alterations, Permit

No Review At This Time by ANC 2E:

The following additional projects, which are on the upcoming June 5, 2014, agenda of the Old Georgetown Board, have not been added to the ANC meeting agenda for OGB-related design review and we do not propose to adopt a resolution on them at this time. If there are concerns about any of these projects, please contact the ANC office by Friday, May 30, 2014.

1. SMD 02, 3336 Dent Place, NW, OG 14-175 (HPA 14-346) Residence, 3- story rear addition, alterations to front, Concept

2. SMD 03, 1236 33rd Street, NW, OG 14-211 (HPA 14-416) Residence, Demolition of rear garage, new garage, Permit

3. SMD 03, 1405 34th Street, NW, OG 14-202 (HPA 14-406) Residence, Rooftop HVAC equipment

4. SMD 03, 3319 O Street, NW, OG 14-204 (HPA 14-409) Residence, Replacement windows, Permit

5. SMD 03, 3332 O Street, NW, OG 14-217 (HPA 14-422) Residence, Replace wood fences with metal fences, Permit

6. SMD 03, 1357 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 14-084 (HPA 14-158) Commercial, Three-story rear addition, Revised Concept

7. SMD 03, 1511 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-229 (HPA 13-401) Commercial, Rear addition at second story, Permit – revised design (per DCRA

comments)

8. SMD 04, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-215 (HPA 14-420) Georgetown University – Regents Hall, Site work: ADA ramp and alterations, Permit

9. SMD 05, 3000 K Street, NW, OG 14-220 (HPA 14-425) Mixed-use, Wall

mounted antenna, Permit

10. SMD 05, 3256 M Street, NW, OG 14-035 (HPA 14-057) Commercial,

Rooftop antennas for Verizon, Permit

11. SMD 05, 3270 M Street, NW, OG 14-189 (HPA 14-388) Commercial,

Rooftop antennas for Sprint, Permit

12. SMD 05, 3286 M Street, NW, OG 14-034 (HPA 14-051) Commercial,

Signs, alterations to parking lot, Permit

13. SMD 05, 3314 M Street, NW, OG 14-111 (HPA 14-217) Commercial,

Alterations to Cady’s Alley: lighting, speeding tables, landscaping, Revised

Concept

14. SMD 05, 3206 Grace Street, NW, OG 14-222 (HPA 14-427) Commercial,

Awning, sign and blade sign for “Dog Tag Bakery”, door decals, Permit –

revised design

15. SMD 05, 2810 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, OG 14-190 (HPA 14-389)

Commercial, Sidewalk café on public space, awning, signs – Eno – existing, Permit

16. SMD 05, 1209-1211 Potomac Street, NW, OG 14-070 (HPA 14-112)

Restaurant (Georgetown Cupcake), Alteration to first floor window, 2nd floor replacement windows – existing, Permit

17. SMD 05, 1071 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW, OG 14-194 (HPA 14-396) Mixed-use, 2-story rear addition plus basement, blade sign – Curio, Permit

18. SMD 06, 1521 29th Street, NW, OG 14-199 (HPA 14-402) Residence, Replacement wood fences, terraces, Permit

19. SMD 06, 1231-1235 31st Street, NW, OG 14-137 (HPA 14-277) Front windows, rear additions, alterations, roof terrace, Revised Concept

20. SMD 06, 2605 O Street, NW #2, OG 14-186 (HPA 14-378) Residence, Replacement windows, Permit

21. SMD 06, 2622 P Street, NW, OG 14-213 (HPA 14-418) Commercial, Blade sign – After Peacock Room, Permit

22. SMD 06, 2722 P Street, NW, OG 14-124 (HPA 14-263) Residence, Replacement windows, door, shutters, Permit

23. SMD 06, 3011 P Street, NW, OG 14-216 (HPA 14-421) Residence, Garage, Permit

24. SMD 07, 1523 28th Street, NW, OG 14-184 (HPA 14-362) Residence, Replacement windows and French door, Permit

25. SMD 07, 1623 28th Street, NW, OG 14-207 (HPA 14-412) Residence – Evermay, Greenhouse, Concept

26. SMD 07, 1699 31st Street, NW, OG 14-218 (HPA 14-423) Residence, Replacement front stairs, Concept

27. SMD 07, 2703 P Street, NW, OG 14-197 (HPA 14-400) Residence, One- story rear addition, Permit

28. SMD 07, 2516 Mill Road, NW, OG 14-146 (HPA 14-288) Residence, Rear addition and alterations, Permit

29. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-170 (HPA 14-341) Georgetown University, New construction – NET Hall, Concept – design development

30. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-159 (HPA 14-330) Georgetown University – Dahlgren Chapel, Installation of Healy Hall crosses in berm, landscaping, Revised concept

31. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-201 (HPA 14-404) Georgetown University – Ryan and Mulledy Hall, Alterations and replacement windows, Permit

32. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-214 (HPA 14-419) Georgetown University – Ryan and Mulledy Halls, Alterations and site work, Permit

33. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-191 (HPA 14-390) Georgetown University – Village C, Replacement windows

34. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 14-192 (HPA 14-391) Georgetown University – Village C, Masonry repair and replacement, Permit

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As provided by ANC2E on May 26.

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E — 3265 S Street, NW — Washington, D.C. 20007 — 202-724-7098 — anc2e@dc.gov — www.anc2e.com

A Walking and Biking Trail from Palisades to Georgetown?
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The Palisades Citizen’s Association announced May 30 that it is still in the “talking process” to help develop a walking and biking trail project that extends from the Palisades to Georgetown.

This prospective trail project is expected to extend a little more than three miles from Georgetown to Galena Road along the Potomac River.

This project will include a paved trail which will give room for bicyclists, joggers and pedestrians to enjoy the trail as well as repairing old bridges in Glover Archbold Park.

Some in the neighborhood, however, have expressed their concerns and have posted signs arguing that the trail is better in its own “natural” state. The signs urged people to make their voices be heard by officials so that the development plan is not approved.

As to the concerns raised by some in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens’ Association said that it is looking to host meeting to find a general consensus from the people before developing this project any further.

Graduation Weekend Is Upon Us: Gates, Lew, Case at G.U.; Andres, Milken at G.W.
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Graduation ceremonies have just begun for Georgetown University and George Washington University, after American and Howard universities celebrated last weekend with main speakers Katie Couric and Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, respectively.

Proud parents and graduates can be seen out and about in Georgetown, the West End and Foggy Bottom. Also, about are speakers at the two schools: some famous, others not yet.
At Georgetown, there are former defense secretary Robert Gates and current Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew as well as internet visionary and philanthropist Steve Case. At George Washington, they have chef Jose Andres at main commencement on the National Mall. Andres is known for his restaurants in D.C. as his work on television and advocacy work. Reformed financier Michael Milken will speak at the Milken School, Kurt Newman, M.D., will speak at the medical school.

At Georgetown University, This Weekend: Commencement Speakers, Honorary Degree Recipients

Jacob J. Lew (L’83)
Secretary of the Treasury
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
McCourt School of Public Policy
Thursday, May 15, Healy Lawn, 5 p.m.

Seyla Benhabib
Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Friday, May 16, Healy Lawn, 9 a.m.

Roger W. Ferguson
President, CEO of TIAA-CREF
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
McDonough School of Business, MBA
Friday, May 16, Healy Lawn, 12:30 p.m.

Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
School of Continuing Studies
Friday, May 16, Healy Lawn 3:30 p.m.

Guy Consolmagno, S.J.
Astronomer, The Vatican Observatory
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
Georgetown College
Saturday, May 17, Healy Lawn, 9 a.m.

Alan I. Leshner
CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science
School of Nursing & Health Studies
Saturday, May 17, Healy Lawn, 12 p.m.

Robert Gates (G’74)
Former Secretary of Defense
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
School of Foreign Service
Saturday, May 17, Healy Lawn, 3 p.m.

Steve Case
Chair, The Case Foundation
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters
McDonough School of Business, Undergraduate
Saturday, May 17, Healy Lawn, 6 p.m.

Dr. George Thibault
President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science
School of Medicine
Sunday, May 18, Warner Theater, 11 a.m.

Kenneth Feinberg
Georgetown Law Center Adjunct Professor
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws

Joan Biskupic (not speaking), Journalist, Author, “American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia”
Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws
Law Center
Sunday, May 18, Healy Lawn, 2 p.m.

At George Washington University, This Weekend: Commencement Speakers, Honorary Degree Recipients

Friday, May 16

8:30 a.m. – Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Master’s and Doctoral Programs Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Student speaker: Margaret Goddard (American studies)
Faculty speaker: David Karpf, assistant professor of media and public affairs

11:30 a.m. – Elliott School of International Affairs Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
David Shambaugh (B.A. ’78), professor of political science and international affairs

3:30 p.m. – School of Business Undergraduate, Master of Business Administration and Doctoral Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Barry Salzberg,chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte Global)

6:30 p.m. – School of Nursing Celebration
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW
Maureen P. McCausland, president and chief nursing officer, MedStar Health

7:30 p.m. – School of Engineering and Applied Science Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd St NW
Kevin L. Kelly, chief executive officer of LGS Innovations

Saturday, May 17

8:00 a.m. – Graduate School of Education and Human Development Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Carrie Morgridge, Vice President of the Morgridge Family Foudation, and Dr. Cora B. Marrett, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation

12:00 p.m. – Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Degree Programs Celebration #1
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Distinguished scholar speaker: Brandon Aversano (American studies)
Faculty speaker: Irene R. Foster, assistant professor of economics

12:00 p.m. – Milken Institute School of Public Health Celebration
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW
Michael Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute and Milken Family Foundation

3:30 p.m. – Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Degree Programs Celebration #2
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Distinguished scholar speaker: Alexandra Kralick (biological anthropology)
Faculty speaker: Melani McAlister, associate professor of American studies and international affairs

4:00 p.m. – School of Medicine and Health Sciences – Health Sciences Celebration
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW
Student speaker

7:30 p.m. – College of Professional Studies Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Student speaker: Megumi Voight (GSPM’s Strategic Public Relations)
Faculty speaker: Dennis W. Johnson, professor of political management

Sunday, May 18

2:30 p.m. – School of Medicine and Health Sciences – M.D. Celebration
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW
Kurt Newman, president and chief executive officer, Children’s National Medical Center

2:30 p.m. – Law School Celebration
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd Street NW
Bruce Sewell (JD ’86), general counsel and senior vice president of legal and government affairs, Apple

Honorary Degree Recipients

• Maudine Cooper is the former president and CEO of Greater Washington Urban League.nbsp; She serves on numerous boards and commissions and has received many awards for her tireless commitment to helping minorities gain employment, education and opportunities for business ownership.

• W. Russell Ramsey (B.B.A. ’81) is chairman emeritus of the GW Board of Trustees, and founder, chairman and CEO of Ramsey Asset Management.

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