Slow to act

By Jim Stergios
July 5th, 2007

Post haste it is not. I received a few days ago a letter from a friend in DC. She had apparently cut out a newspaper article from May 2nd and sent it to me. Now, I don’t know what blue plate special it got stuck under, but it took almost two months for me to get it.

Speaking of slow to act, how about the contents of said article? Let’s start with the title of the article in The Current: “Old convention center site to host 700 housing units.” Seems that the 10-acre parcel southwest of Mount Vernon Square where the Washington Convention Center was (New York Avenue and 9th, H and 11th streets) is being redeveloped as a Town Center, with commercial, office and residential uses.

Yes, speaking of slow to act. How about some of that action here? Another few years, when the area around the South Boston facility fills out a bit, we should follow DC’s lead.