Tony Williams takes DC Govt to task for failing downtown and budget mismanagement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of agencies are requiring more in-person work as of January 1. Traffic will be up everywhere in the city.

I have coworkers at my agency who have been on “medical WFH” and now have to start coming in at least a few times per pay period. There’s going to be a change in traffic starting this month.

It will have a major impact on traffic, sure. But not on office occupancy rates.

No matter what DC hopes, the federal government is never going back to FT in-person work.

[Anonymous]

Utterly insane that they had to do this but at the same time quite symptomatic of DCs governance failures that elected officials don’t understand what’s happening around the metro area.

“The Federal City Council, a nonpartisan nonprofit working on the advancement of civic life in the nation’s capital, hosted eight of the city’s 13 council members on a bus tour of the region Monday morning. With stops at National Landing, Reston Town Center and Marriott headquarters in Bethesda, city leaders witnessed the booming development first hand.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/15/dc-office-residential-conversions-downtown/

[Anonymous]

Utterly insane that they had to do this but at the same time quite symptomatic of DCs governance failures that elected officials don’t understand what’s happening around the metro area.

“The Federal City Council, a nonpartisan nonprofit working on the advancement of civic life in the nation’s capital, hosted eight of the city’s 13 council members on a bus tour of the region Monday morning. With stops at National Landing, Reston Town Center and Marriott headquarters in Bethesda, city leaders witnessed the booming development first hand.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/15...idential-conversions-downtown/

This doesn't surprise me. No one on the City Council, with the exception of Brooke Pinto, has any understanding of private sector business. Maybe Silverman's defeat will convince the others that they need to at least TRY to learn a little something about the business world.