Big GDS news

[Anonymous]

Any update on when this project will start? I'd love to see all of the GDS kids on the same campus.

[Anonymous]

Found the answer: GDS is trying to forward with the campus plan only. The mixed-use development seems dead, at least for now.

http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/georgetown_day_school_files_new_application_for_consolidation_sans_mixed-us/12893

'A year after withdrawing an application for a new mixed-use campus, Georgetown Day School (GDS) has filed new plans with the city to consolidate its campuses — but the new plans don’t include a residential and retail component.'

[Anonymous]

How are they paying for this while also carrying the retail spaces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are they paying for this while also carrying the retail spaces?

The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are they paying for this while also carrying the retail spaces?

The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out.

You are insufferable.

[Anonymous]

"The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out."

What happened with their first attempt at being smart?

[Anonymous]

Don't feed the troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out."

What happened with their first attempt at being smart?

Read the bios of the Board of Trustees. One perhaps can quibble about the school's plan, but they are an impressive group of leaders.

https://www.gds.org/page/about/board-of-trustees

[Anonymous]

The Northwest Current has a story this week on GDS's scaled-back plans, in which there's this quote:

...[A] local resident and a member of the Ward 3 Vision steering committee said the original project would have spruced up a “dead” area. “I think it’s a terrible, missed opportunity,” he said. “It could have attracted livelihood. Now we’re just going to have another Sidwell."

The Ward 3 Vision guy needn't worry. GDS will never be another Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out."

What happened with their first attempt at being smart?

+1. Weren't the GDS Board and advisors supposed to be the famous "roster of aces," the movers and shakers, smartest guys in the room, blah, blah? As big time real estate mogul-wannabes, they make Trump look like a genius.

[Anonymous]

GDS is smart for now to decouple the campus plan from the mixed use development. They can get the campus expansion approved and get going on that, without having to defend a second front, the PUD. They can either come back later with the Wisconsin development plan or flip it to another developer to drive it forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are they paying for this while also carrying the retail spaces?

The school has some rather smart and successful people on the board (top Ivy law grads, tech entrepreneurs, investors, ex-administration types). They'll figure it out.

You are insufferable.

It's a troll. Don't pay it any mind.

[Anonymous]

Read the bios of the Board of Trustees. One perhaps can quibble about the school's plan, but they are an impressive group of leaders.

https://www.gds.org/page/about/board-of-trustees

Looking at this and I'm struck by the lack of diversity on the board which is marked contrast to the school's brand as DC's socially progressive school. This caused me to look at other schools. I have to say the make up of GDS' board is pretty much par for the course (pun intended) for almost all the schools around here.

[Anonymous]

It's a rubber-stamp board that fails to exercise oversight, refuses to hold the Head accountable, and is extremely resistant to the notion that most of its members are elected to represent parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the bios of the Board of Trustees. One perhaps can quibble about the school's plan, but they are an impressive group of leaders.

https://www.gds.org/page/about/board-of-trustees

Looking at this and I'm struck by the lack of diversity on the board which is marked contrast to the school's brand as DC's socially progressive school. This caused me to look at other schools. I have to say the make up of GDS' board is pretty much par for the course (pun intended) for almost all the schools around here.

Eric Holder used to be a trustee.