July 2024 Downtowner
• July 17, 2024

D.C. Carjackings Fall After Multiyear Surge  U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves announced at a press conference last week that carjackings in the District were down 78 percent in June […]

Opinion: Georgetown BID Letter to WMATA on Proposed Bus Route Changes 
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RE: Georgetown Comments on the Proposed 2025 Better Bus Network Redesign To Board Chair Paul C. Smedberg and Members of the Board,  Georgetown is the region’s largest employment and commercial […]

Editorial: Scooter Rudeness, E-Bike Excess, Moped Madness 
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  In the spring of 2021, Lime scooters and bikes were released in Washington, D.C.   D.C. was the first city to receive Lime scooters.   Spin launched its dockless e-bike system […]

Georgetown Rower to Compete at Paris Olympics
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Almost any morning during the past three-plus years, around 5:30 a.m., you could spot Georgetown resident André Matias, 35, rowing on the Potomac River next to Key Bridge. On July 18, […]

Keep the Olympic Spirit Alive  
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With so much uncertainty abroad and at home — whether it’s the ongoing Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, the European elections or our own heated presidential contest — we are looking […]

In Memoriam: James Bracco
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The Georgetown Business Improvement District’s former executive director, Jim Bracco, died on May 21 after a long battle with cancer.   The BID offered the following remembrance: “Jim came from a […]

News Bytes: Mansion Tax, ‘Bibi’ Visit, G.U. President Recovering From Stroke
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This article was updated July 22. ‘Mansion Tax’ Targets Georgetown   The District Council passed the city’s $21-billion budget for fiscal 2025 on June 12. The new budget contains a property […]

Washington AI Network Hosts Meta’s Polina Zvyagina, Others
• July 15, 2024

Tammy Haddad created the Washington AI Network to bring artificial intelligence innovators and policymakers together in person to facilitate exchanges that just wouldn’t happen online.  From the looks of it, it is […]

Business Ins & Outs: Barnes & Noble, Tatte, River Club, Yellow
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In (Really?): Aug. 21 Is New B&N Opening Date  Gone from Georgetown since 2011, Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest bookstore chain, will return to its original location at 3040 […]

Opinion: Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump
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Regardless of what your politics may be, Saturday’s events in Butler, Pennsylvania, were a dark day for our country. This time, the all-too-familiar mass shooting unfolded —an AR-15 style rifle, […]