3 reasons you don’t want to miss our birthday party
Image by Aimee Custis used with permission.
Last week, GGWash kicked off our 2020 Neighborhood Drive to celebrate 12 years of being your go-to source for coverage of local transportation policy, arcane facts about Metro, and a whole bunch of stuff in between!
We’re capping off this campaign with a celebration on March 12 at 6:30 pm in LeDroit Park and you won’t want to miss it! Get your ticket by donating any amount to our 2020 Neighborhood Drive. We hope you will join the GGWash Neighborhood, but we welcome donations of any size.
In case the appeal of supporting another year of community-driven reporting about the built environment wasn’t enough — here are three other reasons you should come to our birthday party.
1. The GGWash community is great and we want to meet you!
One of the absolute best things about GGWash is this dedicated community of readers, writers, educators, activists, advocates, opinion-havers, agitators, change-makers, and policy-creators. You never know who you’ll meet at our party. A future friend, professional connection, or maybe even spouse!
A few of our Neighbors reminicisng about birthday parties past. Image by Aimee Custis used with permission.
2. Meet Stephanie Gidigbi, one of DC’s new WMATA board appointees
With a major controversial budget and many other rider issues facing WMATA, we are looking forward to working with DC’s newest WMATA board member, Stephanie Gidigbi (pronounced “GID-a-bee”). She plans to be a major champion on the board for transportation equity and sustainability and we are looking forward to hearing more about her vision for our region on March 12!
3. Experience adaptive reuse first hand
Adaptive reuse is an architectural concept where existing buildings are renovated and redesigned to accommodate primary uses that were not in keeping with their original designs. In 2018, the Frequency, an adaptive reuse project in Tenleytown, converted the former WAMU office building into residential housing. This year, LeDroit Park got a new market-rate, multifamily apartment building in the former Howard University dorm, Lucy Slowe Hall.
Built in 1942 by the US government for war housing and named after the first African-American woman to serve as a dean of any university, the building has been primarily used as dormitory housing for Howard University students since the end of World War II. Located in the LeDroit Park neighborhood where there currently are no multifamily buildings exceeding five apartments, Slowe Hall is very much emblematic of many of the challenges we are grappling with as a city as we seek to grow in a equitable and sustainable way.
Lucy Slowe Hall. Image by the author.
Come check out this quirky building, enjoy good food and great company, and chat with our Neighbors and supporters about the urbanist issues that define our times. We hope to see you there!
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We need to raise $21,000 and add 200 new members to start the year off strong. If you find Greater Greater Washington a valuable resource and/or enjoy the community we have created here, please contribute whatever you can afford or think is a fair value for what GGWash means to you.
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