Intelsat Building Proposal by CM Matt Frumin (Connecticut Ave/Van Ness)

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The Intelsat building sits on a ground lease from the federal government. So DC wouldn't be owning the ground, just the 45 year old, highly inefficient but classified historic, buildings which sit on them, plus whatever term remains on the lease. Each of the fifteen "pod" towers contains a highly inefficient central atrium.

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Back the Bike Lobby HQ then

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-DC purchases the Washington International School primary school campus next to Duke Ellington (it's not for sale). Allows expansion of Duke Ellington's building footprint and additional outdoor space appropriate to a general purpose HS.
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The Ellington Field is at 38th and R. DC wouldn't need to buy WIS.

That ship has sailed. It is now a parks department property. But it is not big enough for a high school and you already have a brand new high school in the area. Too bad Hardy never used to that filed… thanks for your leadership mary cheh!

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Anonymous wrote:Back the Bike Lobby HQ then

It’s not enough space for them. They require 1 person per building and you know they have two people. We may be able to entice them to the property by letting them replace all road around the property with a small gravel path.

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It should have been purchased years ago.

I liked Finley’s idea of using it as an IB or magnate school with minimal sports at UDC during the Ward 3 race. Glad to see Frumin harvesting good ideas from his former opponents. Maybe he can do Goulet next and work on the crime issue.

A "magnate school" doesn't exactly ooze equity.

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Anonymous wrote:Buying the building is fine, but the idea of moving MacArthur HS there now is nuttier than the original decision to put the school there in the first place. This idea - and the uncertainty it will create - will completely scuttle MacArthur for the foreseeable future and therefore J-R as well. It's really dumb stuff.

No it isn't. It makes zero sense to have an essentially private public school on the furthest west, non metro accessible corner of the city. That property can become the new elementary school so Hardy Park doesn't have to be developed.

It also makes zero sense to have two public high schools within a 5 minute drive. The location is great for those in Chevy Chase and Cathedral Heights, but it'd be a disaster for almost every in-boundary family in the Hardy feeder pattern. Hardy Park was never going to be touched by the Foxhall ES plans - that the park needed "saving" was a myth propagated by scurrilous NIMBYs who didn't want a public school anywhere near them. It's a shame that you apparently bought into it.

You would change the feeder pattern for J-R and this school into a form that would make more sense.

Change it however you like and you are still left with 'neighborhood' schools a single Metro stop and five minutes drive away from one another in a low-density part of the city. MacArthur isn't a great location, but if you're going to acquire Intelsat and shutter MacArthur HS it'd make more sense to incorporate the Intelsat campus into a mega-Jackson Reed HS and reap all of the economies of scale that would entail. Either than or make Intelsat a city-wide school and retain MacArthur as the high school for the Hardy feeder. But apparently there ain't the funding for building out MacArthur and acquiring Intelsat because the mayor has other priorities.

A "mega-Jackson Reed HS" sounds positively lovely. And it's no doubt much easier to scale mediocrity than achieve quality. Moreover, it would be in keeping with the spirit of Bowser's pledge of "Alice Deal for all." Mission accomplished!

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Anonymous wrote:Back the Bike Lobby HQ then

So easy then to build off-ramps from the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes right into the (taxpayer-funded) WABA Bike Lobby HQ!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
-DC purchases the Washington International School primary school campus next to Duke Ellington (it's not for sale). Allows expansion of Duke Ellington's building footprint and additional outdoor space appropriate to a general purpose HS.
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The Ellington Field is at 38th and R. DC wouldn't need to buy WIS.

That ship has sailed. It is now a parks department property. But it is not big enough for a high school and you already have a brand new high school in the area. Too bad Hardy never used to that filed… thanks for your leadership mary cheh!

It has a regulation grass field and the track could easily be expanded. Are you sure you know which property is being referred to?

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“To serve all Washingtonians”.

He understands that he’s the Ward 3 rep, right? He seems to spend much of his waking hours trying to help the residents of other parts of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:“To serve all Washingtonians”.

He understands that he’s the Ward 3 rep, right? He seems to spend much of his waking hours trying to help the residents of other parts of the city.

True. Frumin may see himself at an At-large Councmember rather than as the elected CM for Ward 3.

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Anonymous wrote:Back the Bike Lobby HQ then

It’s not enough space for them. They require 1 person per building and you know they have two people. We may be able to entice them to the property by letting them replace all road around the property with a small gravel path.

But high density all around.
Is gravel ok for tires? I’m concerned

[Anonymous]

This is a hilariously bad idea. Frumin is a joke

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Anonymous wrote:Back the Bike Lobby HQ then

It’s not enough space for them. They require 1 person per building and you know they have two people. We may be able to entice them to the property by letting them replace all road around the property with a small gravel path.

Are bike lanes around the building part of the re-development plan?

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Frumin seems to propose overhaul/upheaval for the parts of Ward 3 where he does not live. Seems to be fine proposing re-development/low-income housing/dispensaries as long as it's not his neighborhood.

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Hopefully this round of elections in DC will begin the end of virtue signaling.