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as a result of failure, Ms. Pittman-Walker is soonly departed from the convention center authority. http://www.nbc4.com/news/16156042/detail.html?rss=dc&psp=news
while she lead the convention center authority, the area around the center has remained stalled, vacant and depressing. all this nothing while the National Harbor was being planned and built. the National Harbor center is now officially open.
good riddance to pittman-walker.
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There's an article in the Washington Post as well:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301964.html
Beverly Perry, a Pepco official who chairs the authority, said members had talked about the pressure to move the convention center to "the next level of competition." But she said the board was not unhappy with Walker, whose resignation was first reported in the Washington Business Journal. She added: "Was the board dissatisfied? No. Was her performance satisfactory? Yes. Was the board asking for more? Yes. It was because of her personal issues that she thought it was time to move on." Perry said the board wants to bring more retail, conventions and businesses, including banquets, to the facility.
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Unfortunately, the Convention Center was designed purely with conventioneers in mind and not as a potentially significant contributor to revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood's commercial corridor. There is signage up (which itself took years to mount) for a spa and a public safety center, which about 5 years after the convention center's opening, have still not moved in. The promise of a hotel that small businesses banked on is coming no earlier than 2011. With some notable exceptions, most of the property surrounding the center that was vacant when the convention center opened remains vacant and the new businesses struggle because the center is designed in a way that takes conventioneers in and lets them out onto Mass/NY Avenue/downtown instead of drawing them up into the neighborhood's retail center.
I hope that the new leadership will aggressively expand and promote the retail in and around the convention center, and take a proactive role issues impacting the entire neighborhood.
Posted By Cary Silverman / At 5/5/08 5:22 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301964.html
Beverly Perry, a Pepco official who chairs the authority, said members had talked about the pressure to move the convention center to "the next level of competition." But she said the board was not unhappy with Walker, whose resignation was first reported in the Washington Business Journal. She added: "Was the board dissatisfied? No. Was her performance satisfactory? Yes. Was the board asking for more? Yes. It was because of her personal issues that she thought it was time to move on." Perry said the board wants to bring more retail, conventions and businesses, including banquets, to the facility.
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Unfortunately, the Convention Center was designed purely with conventioneers in mind and not as a potentially significant contributor to revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood's commercial corridor. There is signage up (which itself took years to mount) for a spa and a public safety center, which about 5 years after the convention center's opening, have still not moved in. The promise of a hotel that small businesses banked on is coming no earlier than 2011. With some notable exceptions, most of the property surrounding the center that was vacant when the convention center opened remains vacant and the new businesses struggle because the center is designed in a way that takes conventioneers in and lets them out onto Mass/NY Avenue/downtown instead of drawing them up into the neighborhood's retail center.
I hope that the new leadership will aggressively expand and promote the retail in and around the convention center, and take a proactive role issues impacting the entire neighborhood.
Posted By Cary Silverman / At 5/5/08 5:22 AM
