“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.
1100 New York Ave, NW
Sad words from Haad Thai (thanks to A. for passing on):
“I am saddened to inform my customers and friends, many of whom I consider family, that Haad Thai Restaurant will close its doors for the final time on October 26, 2024. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, we were unable to renegotiate our Lease extension with the Landlord. (more…)
The reality
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.
What your building is paying — and what it’s getting.
What the contract covers. What it doesn’t.
The markup problem most boards don’t know about.
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…)
Thanks to Nick for sending: “this Red Tailed in Canal Park, Navy Yard at sunset”
If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder Tony Hawk, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
I was relieved to see this roll out shade feature! (more…)
Join Mindful Movement DC this Memorial Day Weekend for a 3 night yoga retreat to rebalance strength & softness in our lives! During this weekend in the woods, we will create a sacred space to nourish and embrace our whole selves through yoga, meditation, journaling, time in nature, and community building.
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6810 Cameron Drive, NW, photos courtesy Juneberry Garage
“Juneberry Garage: A New Gathering Place Opens Its Doors
Get ready to sip, snack, and socialize at Juneberry Garage, the latest addition to the historic Walter Reed campus. Partners Josh Saltzman, Chris Powers, Robin Webb, Trent Allen, Jeremy Riley and Gladys Kamau are hard at work transforming the historic auto body shop into a bar and restaurant. But in the meantime, they’ve set up shop to serve seasonal snacks and beverages on the patio from a vintage airstream trailer. Come enjoy the fall weather with some hot cider and eats, as well as a variety of draft beers and cocktails.
Located at 6810 Cameron Drive, Juneberry Garage is the perfect pit stop after a trip to the Whole Foods or a ride through Rock Creek Park. The expansive patio will also be a great place for dogs to bring their owners after visits to the adjacent dog park. This initial offering provides a taste of what’s to come as the restaurant prepares to unveil its full kitchen and bar next year, designed by CORE architecture + design.
The beverage menu features (more…)
From the Office of the DC Attorney General:
“Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced a lawsuit against TikTok, Inc. (TikTok) for causing mental and physical harms to District children through its platform intentionally designed to be addictive to kids. The lawsuit also alleges that TikTok deceives its users and their parents about the safety of its platform, and illegally operates a money transmission business, all in violation of District consumer protection laws. The filing by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) alleges that TikTok’s manipulative platform traps young users into cycles of excessive use that the company knows contribute to profound psychological and physiological harms, including body dysmorphia, sleep loss, depression, anxiety, and long-lasting neurological impacts. Despite this, TikTok misleads its users and their parents, falsely claiming that the app is safe for kids and that users have full control over their engagement, spending, and data. (more…)
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5247 Wisconsin Avenue, NW photo by my daughter
“Dear PoPville,
Breaking news.
Chadwicks / Chatter / Chads / Alley Cat bar has renamed – now Aura.”
Anyone stop by, have/how have things changed?
Ed. Note: We broke the news September 10th :) but the algorithm on social media is just awful these days. A few other folks have also wrote in about this. If you want to make sure you don’t miss a post and want the news as we publish it, please sign up for our free daily roundup newsletter here.”
photo by Emma K Alexandra
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October 23-27, 2004
“Mount Pleasant Cocktail Week 2024 is the inaugural 5 day event in the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood of Washington DC where enthusiasts and bartenders can come together to celebrate and explore the world of craft cocktail and bartending along the Mt. Pleasant Street Corridor that features an eclectic mix of restaurants and bars reflecting the neighborhood’s diverse and vibrant character. This event is an opportunity for the businesses and residents of one of Washington DC’s most unique neighborhoods to come together, network, share knowledge, and to give back to the neighborhood and community that supports us. The main goal of this event is to make improvements in the restoration and preservation of Mount Pleasant by promoting our dynamic cocktail and beverage scene and draw more traffic to the whole commercial corridor. (more…)