Anonymous wrote:As suggested earlier, just rename DE more appropriately the Marion Barry School of the Arts and Grafts, after DC's notoriously corrupt, late crackhead mayor-for-life.

+1. And, everyone in this thread deserves $10k in consulting fees for the hard work involved in coming up with such an appropriate and memorable new brand for the school

As suggested earlier, just rename DE more appropriately the Marion Barry School of the Arts and Grafts, after DC's notoriously corrupt, late crackhead mayor-for-life.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, for 200 million dollar project, shouldn't the developer be a big company? Just tried googling Jeffrey Thompson construction and found nothing.

The builder is GCS-Sigal -- http://dgs.dc.gov/page/dgs-duke-ellington-school-for-the-arts-modernization-project

No doubt with lots of crony consultants, shady co-bidders and politically connected fixers and skimmers all out to ensure that "the community" gets a big piece of the $200 million action.