Trouble Brewing? Food and drink outlets on the the 300 block of 7th Street, SE, are grumbling about loss of business to the Eastern Market weekend flea market vendor Vigilante Coffee.
The Week Ahead….
by Larry Janezich
Monday, November 23
ANC 6A Community Outreach Committee (COC) meets at 7 pm, Maury Elementary School, Multi-Purpose Room.
Among items on the agenda:
Grant Outreach – Grant Workshop
Committee Priorities/Issues
“The ABCs of the ANC” Flier
Review of grant request: Miner Elementary School PTO
Neighborhood Safety Training
Thursday, November 26
DPW to Observe Thanksgiving Day; Trash, Recycling Will Not Be Collected; Parking Enforcement Will Be Suspended. Leaves will be collected as scheduled from Area D neighborhoods (West of 11th Street, South of East Capitol and Independence Avenue, see below)
Sunday, November 29
MPD Community Bike Ride. MPD 1st, 4th, and 5th Districts invite bikers to join officers on a police escorted 14.7 mile community bike ride through the city and the Metropolitan Branch Trail. The ride will last 2 – 2.5 hours. Leave from MPD HQ at 200 Indiana Avenue, NW, at 10:00am.
If DGS were able to directly charge market rate rent to the vendors, instead of letting the private operators extract those economic rents, would Vigilante still be there? Would the complaints hold less water?