I would just like to inform the community that, at the moment, comments cannot be sent in to the revised Envision McMillan. I'm attaching a screenshot here in case folks are interested to know what I am talking about.
Mat
BCA MAG representative
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Bloomingdale resident unable to post comments at the Envision McMillan website
See this message:
I would just like to inform the community that, at the moment, comments cannot be sent in to the revised Envision McMillan. I'm attaching a screenshot here in case folks are interested to know what I am talking about.
Mat
BCA MAG representative
I would just like to inform the community that, at the moment, comments cannot be sent in to the revised Envision McMillan. I'm attaching a screenshot here in case folks are interested to know what I am talking about.
Mat
BCA MAG representative
Vision McMillan Partners now has its own Twitter account
See this tweet from Bloomingdame:
Bloomingdame @bloomingdame
Bloomingdame
.@VisionMcMillan Welcome to Twitter. Lots of new stuff on your website. #bloomingdaledc @McMillanPark
Here is the @VisionMcMillan Twitter account message:
@VisionMcMillan
The redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site comes with an eye toward amplifying a unique place in Washington, DC.
lost kitten on the unit block of Adams Street NW
See this 10-30-2013 message:
My
neighbor spotted a kitty in his alley behind 9 Adams Street NW this morning.
The cat scratched on the back door and wore a fancy collar so we assume it
belongs to someone. The cat left after getting some food. Can you post to the
Bloomingdale list in case someone is looking for this cutie pie? See pictures
below. Thanks.
Homicide Watch DC: suspect in 1st & Q St NW 10-26-2013 double shooting describes interaction with Freddy Hawkins
See this DC Homicide Watch DC post regarding this past Saturday's double shooting at 1st and Q Street NW, which resulted in one death:
Suspect in Florida Ave. Double Shooting Describes Interaction with Freddy Hawkins at Gas Station
Note that I have removed the post. You can click on the link above to actually read it
... which most of you won't do.
Suspect in Florida Ave. Double Shooting Describes Interaction with Freddy Hawkins at Gas Station
Note that I have removed the post. You can click on the link above to actually read it
... which most of you won't do.
| Chris Amico @eyeseast |
@ScottRobertsDC @TruxtonCircle Hey, mind linking and block quoting instead of copying the entire post?
|
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
WARNING...WARNING...WARNING ... ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE COMES TO BLOOMINGDALE
See this 10-06-2013 message from Parker Flats at Gage School:
WARNING...WARNING...WARNING
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE COMES TO BLOOMINGDALE
Calling all living, breathing humans...Parker Flats is proud to announce that our Halloween Haunted House (unlike a zombie) is ALIVE AND KICKING! What has now become a staple tradition here in Bloomingdale, is coming to you again so be ready to run for your lives, screaming and crying. Of course this year we will try to limit the blood splatter and severing of limbs. Okay who are we kidding. This year is going to be the most terrifying haunted house YET. Here are the details
WHEN: Halloween night (Oct 31st) from 6:30pm to 9:30pm (PLEASE NOTE: If you are in line by 9:30 you will be allowed entry. Anyone who gets in line after 9:30 will not be admitted to the Haunted House. So bottom line...GET IN LINE BEFORE 9:30pm!!!)
WHERE: Parker Flats Condo Building - 2035 2nd St. NW (2nd and Elm) - Yeah the big red brick school house)
COST: FREE - of course most people pay with their lives but we can talk about that later
WHAT: It's a haunted house...you will get chased by monsters, scared half to death, and then given candy afterwards...and usually grown men will cry which is kind of our favorite part!
WHO: EVERYONE can enter...regardless of where you live...but seriously this is designed to be scary so if you have little ones please exercise your best judgement.
THEME: Zombie Swamp. As if zombies weren't scary enough...we have to put them in a swamp...REALLY?
If you need any further information or have any questions please feel free to email the Parker Flats Board of Directors: parkerflatsliving@gmail.com. Oh and we are always interested in some live (and dead) bodies to help out with playing roles or setting up the sets, so if you are interested in volunteering please let us know. In the past we have had a few people from the community volunteer and we can always use some fresh meat lying around.
Thanks in advance and we look forward to scaring the "you know what" out of you!!! Also, don't forget to stop by Thomas Street for their amazing annual street festival on Halloween Night. Together, Parker Flats and Thomas Street have made Bloomingdale the best "Halloween Destination" in DC!
Sincerely Scary,
The Owners of Parker Flats at Gage School
WBJ's Michael Neibauer: "the fact that demo will occur at McMillan will not stop McMillan redevelopment from happening"
Some tweets from Washington Business Journal reporter Michael Neibauer:
Michael Neibauer @WashBizNeibs
Michael Neibauer @WashBizNeibs
@WashBizNeibs From an advisory council.
Michael Neibauer
The fact that demo will occur at McMillan will not stop McMillan redevelopment from happening. That's my takeaway
11:43 AM - 29 Oct 13 Michael Neibauer
I did omit HPO's comments on McMillan demolition, largely because staff didn't say the demo was bad, only that it required further comment..
11:41 AM - 29 Oct 13
11:41 AM - 29 Oct 13
John Salatti responds to WBJ reporter Michael Neibauer's 10-28-2013 McMillan story
From: John T. Salatti <john.salatti@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [BloomingdaleDC|#2432] WBJ: "DC`s proposed McMillan redevelopment winning over planners"
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [BloomingdaleDC|#2432] WBJ: "DC`s proposed McMillan redevelopment winning over planners"
In response to the WBJ article on McMillan, I posted the following comment:
What Michael Neibauer of the Washington Business Journal and the Vision McMillan Partners Don't Want You to Know
Although I appreciate Mr. Neibauer's ongoing coverage of the District's efforts to develop McMillan Park, I have to raise the concern of his willingness to play the shill for the developers. I concur with his article that the Historic Preservation Office (HPO) report includes the statements he cites, but he clearly just cribbed from the developer’s recent missive about the report. He includes none of the serious, indeed one could say fatal, concerns that the HPO report also includes.
The HPO report does go out of its way to complement the recent revisions put forth by the Vision McMillan Partners (VMP). Such upbeat assessments are not surprising. After all, one of the roles of the HPO staff is put as bright a face on to whatever subject they are commenting on. What Mr. Neibauer should have brought out is that the VMP team been the subject of almost 18 months of blistering critiques from the Historic Preservation Review Board. And even after resisting those critiques for the longest time, the VMP team has made some changes to its plans that address some (and I emphasize, some) of the problems that the Board has had with the plans. The HPO report gives the changes the credit it can give them. But unfortunately what the developers and apparently Mr. Neibauer don’t want you to know is that the report doesn’t end there. Here’s what he neglected to tell you.
For example, although Mr. Neibauer correctly notes that the report describes the design revisions as a significant improvement over previous iterations of the plan, he takes that point of out context when he leaves out the rest of the sentence that precedes his quote, which is “While resulting in substantial demolition of the below-grade cells and compromise to the site’s open space character . . . .” In other words, they’ve done their best to improve on the plan, but at the end of the day even the improved plan does significant damage to what makes McMillan Park what it is.
But Mr. Neibauer’s omissions do not end there. He left out quite a bit more of what the staff had to say about the impact of the plans. For all the changes the VMP plan has gone through, the staff report still admits that
As has been acknowledged by the Board since its initial review, demolition of the majority of the sand filter beds and the extent of new construction would result in the loss of important engineering, architectural and open space features for which the property is recognized and designated [on the DC Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places]. The extent of removal meets the definition of substantial demolition as defined by the historic preservation regulations and is not consistent with the purposes of the preservation act.
HPRB Master Plan Review (McMillan Reservoir), 10-31-13, p. 3 (emphasis added). The VMP plans fall so far short of what the law requires that the staff reiterated that point just a page later:
As the project will result in substantial demolition of character-defining features and the redevelopment will compromise the open-space quality of the site, the SHPO [State Historic Preservation Officer] concludes that the project does not meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings and advises the District to forward the plans to the Advisory Council [on Historic Preservation] for comment.
HPRB Master Plan Review (McMillan Reservoir), 10-31-13, p. 4. The report concludes that what the District and its development partners wish to do at McMillan Park is “therefore inconsistent with the purposes of the Historic Landmark and Historic District Protection Act.” HPRB Master Plan Review (McMillan Reservoir), 10-31-13, p. 4 (emphasis in the original).
Given that all this relevant material is missing from Mr. Neibauer’s article, I am left wondering whether he read the report at all or whether he just took what the developers fed him and quoted from there. Either way he does his readers a disservice.
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As for Eric Fidler of LeDroit Park who figuratively rolls his eyes in snarky tweets supporting the VMP plan, he is more than welcome to request that the District build this albatross at the Park at LeDroit. But I suspect that he would be trampled by his neighbors rushing to defend this two-year old site. McMillan, a century-old park in Bloomingdale, deserves better than what the city (and apparently Eric) want to foist upon us. We can create cool retail, a grocery store, and a community center and create something iconic if only someone down at the Wilson Building could envision more at McMillan than Tysons Corners and dollar signs.
John T. Salatti
(202) 986-2592
"Together, Building a Better Bloomingdale"
(202) 986-2592
"Together, Building a Better Bloomingdale"
WBJ reporter Michael Neibauer asks: "Which project elicits more hatred: McMillan or 5333 Connecticut?"
Washington Business Journal reporter Michael Neibauer tweeted last night:
Michael Neibauer
@WashBizNeibs
Which project elicits more hatred: McMillan or 5333 Connecticut?
10:44 PM - 28 Oct 13
Here is the link to the above ChirpStory.
Michael Neibauer
@WashBizNeibs
Which project elicits more hatred: McMillan or 5333 Connecticut?
10:44 PM - 28 Oct 13
@WashBizNeibs I can see it now: WBJ Presents the 2013 NIMBY Olympics.
@WashBizNeibs The illegal one?
@WashBizNeibs First contest counts the number of times you can say, "The community was not consulted!" in 5 minutes.
@WashBizNeibs I love tasting the salty tears of 5333 Conn every time I drive by it
@EricFidler @WashBizNeibs "The East German judge is docking points for failing to cite air and light with the attempted triple-NIMBY."
@WashBizNeibs McMillan.
@WashBizNeibs @RebeccaMillsDC If they change anything related to the Cleveland Park service lane, that'll be a contender.
@WashBizNeibs Agreed. Both are terrible.
@WashBizNeibs Hatred?
@EricFidler @WashBizNeibs I think that was pretty accurate when it came to the first iteration of Chuck Brown Park.
For those who oppose the current @McMillanPark master plan, hatred is not too strong of a word @bloomingdame @WashBizNeibs #BloomingdaleDC
Update #8 on Thursday's (fabulous!) Halloween on Thomas!
From Eva Hambach:
Event Recap:
Festivities are scheduled for Thursday, October 31st from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
...and here is the no-parking notice:
The theme is a "New Orleans Masquerade."
We'll get started with 2 stilt walkers and 2 face painters and hip-hop artist Solstik at 6:00 pm.
Black Masala, the hand balancers and the silks dancer will come in at 7:00 pm .
...and here is the no-parking notice:
Getting excited?
on Halloween morning at Grassroots Gourmet: Halloween Kids Concert by The Singing Lizard
See the text from a small flyer on this Halloween event at Bloomingdale's Grassroots Gourmet:
Halloween Kids Concert
The Singing Lizard
Grassroots Gourmet
104 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
grassrootsgourmet.org
thesinginglizard.com
Free! Show starts at 10:30 am on Halloween, Thursday, October 31, 2013!
Halloween Kids Concert
The Singing Lizard
Grassroots Gourmet
104 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
grassrootsgourmet.org
thesinginglizard.com
Free! Show starts at 10:30 am on Halloween, Thursday, October 31, 2013!
premiere conscious film night at Samsara House 2023 -- Saturday, 11-02-2013
See this message from Bloomingdale resident Samsara House's Cullen Kowalski:
Cool film this Saturday night at Samsara House. This is pretty awesome film.
Cool film this Saturday night at Samsara House. This is pretty awesome film.
“The Holacratic Experience”, the first Cool Party at “Samsara House 2023” on the unit block of R St NW -- Wednesday, 10-30-2013
See this message from Bloomingdale resident Cullen Kowalski:
“The Holacratic Experience”, the first Cool Party at “Samsara House 2023”
Party: Wednesday, October 30th, 7:00pm – 9:30 pm (doors open at 6:30, starts promptly at 7pm)
Address: 36 R Street NW (approx. half-block from Big Bear Café)
Telephone: 202-505-0735
Cost: At least a buck*
What to bring: We’ll be sitting on the floor, so a yoga mat, meditation cushion or a pillow.
The Party:
Come learn about a r(e)volutionary way for humanity to work together which has the potential to create a more responsive, conscious and coherent world, every-body-all-at-once. This inaugural event is the first of many http://coolparties.samsarahouse.org offered each month at a new shared-community space being launched in Bloomingdale. “Samsara House 2023” at 36 R Street NW is an Awareness-based shared community space where Shift happens. The party starts with an after work reception followed by an informal presentation of Samsara House 2023’s purpose, then some theory and practice through a fun group simulation in a circle setting. Don’t miss this party!
The Holacratic Experience Top 12:
- Harnesses the consciousness of every single person
- Is applied authentic communications and mindfulness practice
- Changes the relationship to power ~ now, everyone has the power to voice a tensions
- Is a tension driven system, letting reality pull issues through and change the system
- Gives everyone a voice, in a rapid, purpose-driven process
- Makes a group of people smarter through collective intelligence
- Senses and responds to the present moment versus trying to plan and predict the future
- Distributes leadership ~ there is no longer someone at the top or above you, It’s you man !
- Tensions are seen as productive and useful for driving things forward
- No one decides the structure; instead a structure emerges by processing tensions
- It’s not just another way of structure, it’s a leap to a whole new way of being
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* Samsara House 2023’s strategy is to exemplify a gift-economy over the current market economy, one that values giving over having. While all events cost at least one dollar to cover our utilities, any additional contribution you make will go towards periodically giving half back to a socially responsible organization or cause in the community in need that you also help identify. Going together as a river, we build a thriving community of communities. Samsara House 2023 was founded by Cullen Kowalski at his DC row house in Bloomingdale, Washington, D.C. and is dynamically governed by Holacracy.
* Samsara House 2023’s strategy is to exemplify a gift-economy over the current market economy, one that values giving over having. While all events cost at least one dollar to cover our utilities, any additional contribution you make will go towards periodically giving half back to a socially responsible organization or cause in the community in need that you also help identify. Going together as a river, we build a thriving community of communities. Samsara House 2023 was founded by Cullen Kowalski at his DC row house in Bloomingdale, Washington, D.C. and is dynamically governed by Holacracy.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller
Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Gandhi
Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Gandhi
Friends of Rhode Isand Avenue (FoRIA) branding effort community meeting -- Tuesday, 10-29-2013
See this neighborhood branding event announcement:
COMMUNITY MEETINGTuesday, October 29th, 7-9pmat Art Enables, 2204 Rhode Island Ave NE
FoRIA is preparing for a future branding effort for Rhode Island Avenue NE, but not without your help! We want to hear your ideas on future marketing efforts.
We want to know:
- What do you want a branding campaign to achieve?- What do you love about Rhode Island Avenue NE?- What was RIA NE like in its heyday?
Neighbors, business owners, employees - EVERYONE - welcome!
No RSVP needed
Refreshments provided
Harry Thomas Rec Center playground ribboncutting -- Tuesday, 10-29-2013
From: "Williams, Marchim (EOM)" marchim.williams@dc.gov
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:47 PM
Subject: Harry Thomas Playground Ribbon Cutting
Come out and join Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Ward 5 Councilmember McDuffie, DPR and DGS to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Harry Thomas Playground on October 29, 2013 at 10:00 am.
Attached is a flyer with more information about the ribbon cutting. Please share with your neighbors, family and friends.
See you on the 29th!
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:47 PM
Subject: Harry Thomas Playground Ribbon Cutting
Ward 5 Neighbors,
Good Evening Harry Thomas Community,
Come out and join Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Ward 5 Councilmember McDuffie, DPR and DGS to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Harry Thomas Playground on October 29, 2013 at 10:00 am.
Attached is a flyer with more information about the ribbon cutting. Please share with your neighbors, family and friends.
See you on the 29th!
Jackie Stanley
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