From a press release:
“Insomnia Cookies, the beloved cult brand known for serving warm cookies all day and late into the night, is set to open its first store in Navy Yard and second-ever transit center location in Union Station. The new Navy Yard bakery will be located on Half St SE near Nationals Park, and the new Union Station store will be found on the Ground Level in the Amtrak Train Concourse. (more…)
Thanks to G. for sending this absolute boat, top down.
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“Dear PoPville,
I went to see one of my favorite bands, the Moss, at 9:30 club. I was standing next to this guy named (more…)
You’ve probably never read your building’s property management contract all the way through. Most board members haven’t either. If you did, you’d find a carefully defined scope of work — vendors coordinated, maintenance dispatched, assessments collected, reports generated.
What you wouldn’t find: anything about fiduciary duties. Reserve funding strategy. Compliance tracking. Case documentation. Institutional memory. The legal obligations that make your board personally accountable to unit owners.
That’s not an oversight in the contract. It’s the contract. Property management was never designed to cover governance. And yet most boards — paying $10,000 to $18,000 a year for the service — assume it does.
Operations and governance are different jobs. One has a contract. The other has a fiduciary duty.
Beyond the management fee, most property management companies mark up vendor invoices — the plumber, the landscaper, the elevator contractor — by 10 to 15 percent before passing the bill to the association. It’s legal. It’s common. And boards have almost no visibility into it. (more…)
“Dearest Ginger had a great 15 years on this planet”
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“Dear PoPville,
This is the second tree to be taken down on our a main street that USED to be tree lined. I asked about the first one and never got a response. This is absolutely ludicrous and I expect an immediate response from the city. Why are these trees being taken down? (more…)
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This rental is located at Georgia Ave near Quincy St, NW. The Craigslist ad says: (more…)
Katdroidd writes: “Y’ALL. Look who popped out of a tree in broad daylight at McPherson Square as I was walking by” (more…)
Connecticut Ave and Albermarle Street, NW, Sunday
A reader passes on this horrible report from NBC Washington:
“A 5-year-old boy who died over the weekend was found naked and unconscious in squalid conditions inside a Northwest D.C. apartment, according to court documents.
Police and paramedics were called to a third-floor apartment at Connecticut Avenue and Albemarle Street before 10 a.m. Sunday. Paramedics tried to revive the boy, but he was pronounced dead at the scene…
The little boy attended Murch Elementary School in Northwest.
So far, the medical examiner has ruled the child’s death as undetermined.
Pettus is charged with cruelty to children. He was released Monday on personal recognizance and ordered to stay away from children.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not ask for a hold or GPS monitoring.”
You can read their full report here.
“Dear PoPville,
Help! The city is not maintaining the newish medians on Maryland Ave NE and 311 requests are being ignored. (more…)
Thanks to S. for sending: “Compass moving into Slipstream Navy Yard location??
Some familiar signage popping up in there 👀”
Ed. Note: Back in September we shared some scuttlebutt about Compass Coffee taking over the Navy Yard Sliptstream space. Stay tuned for an opening date.