…and it looks like they’re starting to get serious over at the SE Safeway site.
The Week Ahead…A New Player Enters the Battle over Eastern Market’s Future – See Tuesday
By Larry Janezich
Monday, May 21
ANC 6A Transportation & Public Space Committee meets at 7:00pm, Capitol Hill Towers, 900 G Street, NE. (ANC 6A is seeking volunteer committee members.)
Among items on the draft agenda:
Presentation from DDOT regarding progress of the 17th Street NE redesign project.
Consideration of ANC 6A recommendations regarding the C Street NE Rehabilitation project.
Request by On the Rocks (1242 H Street NE) to offer valet parking.
ANC 6A Community Outreach Committee meets at 7:00 pm at Eastern High School, Parent Center, 1700 East Capitol Street, NE. (Enter from East Capitol Street).
Among items on the draft agenda:
Committee Business
Tuesday, May 22
Representatives of the recently revived Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation – including President Ellen Opper-Weiner – will hold a press conference at 11:00 am on the plaza outside of Port City Java, corner of 7th Street and North Carolina Avenue, SE, to release a report: “DC’s Eastern Market: How to Save an Endangered Treasure”. The group’s press release describes the report as “regarding the mismanagement of Eastern Market and solutions.”
Wednesday, May 23
Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee meets at 7:00pm, North Hall, Eastern Market, 225 7th Street, SE.
Among items on the draft agenda:
Report from the Executive Committee
Update on Budget Matters
Market Managers Report
Tenant’s Council Report
CAPITOL HILL CORNER 
I am an Eastern Market artist who has centered much of my life around the market. One year ago it would have been safe say that my family and I were in the South Hall at least once and usually twice everyday. There were not only South Merchants that I considered friends, but some I spoke on the phone with several times a week after hours. Also about a year ago, very small group of outside community members became very active in market affairs with an almost Shakespearean talent for divisiveness. At this time I do not engage South Merchants in any way. Even on the weekends, I avoid entering the Market building whenever possible.