According to the Washington Post, Downtown DC is enjoying a renaissance (duh), but also specifically, $400 million in public investment over the last ten years has generated “hundreds of millions of dollars annually in tax revenue.”

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.