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“Hope you will have a good story of us recovering one day soon,” the owner of Viet Chopsticks told The Washington Post in late March. The recovery story is still being written, but the Vietnamese restaurant has taken an important first step: Viet Chopsticks opened at 4304 Connecticut Avenue yesterday. Van Ness Main Street announced […]
Van Ness Main Street has long had its work cut out for it. Charged with putting the Van Ness commercial corridor on the map, the 4.5-year-old organization’s mission has expanded northward to include the Connecticut Avenue shopping district between Fessenden Street and Nebraska Avenue. It serves 39 small and local businesses, including 22 minority-owned, 14 […]
We can’t gather for a gala or swing into a soiree for Van Ness Main Street. But we can spend the next two weeks supporting the main street’s mission by taking part in its online silent auction. The auction goes live at noon on Monday, June 15th and closes at noon on Thursday, June 25th. […]
Have you seen it? Shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, this appeared on the south-facing wall of the Hastings Condominiums at 4444 Connecticut Avenue. Who is behind this “thank you” to essential workers? Last month, FHC editor Marlene Berlin called Van Ness Main Street Executive Director Gloria Garcia with an idea: a light projection that expresses […]
Are you following Van Ness Main Street on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Or on its email list? The organization has been supporting businesses with cash grants and marketing help. And it’s been posting useful updates about specials and promotions on offer. The latest from Van Ness Main Street’s Facebook page: “Shop Local: Mother’s Day Edition” […]
Attend the Van Ness Main Street annual meeting this Friday, May 1st, and we guarantee you’ll have the best seat in the house. As it is every year, the meeting is open to the public. This time, however, we are all connecting via Zoom videoconferencing. Not familiar with Zoom? You can click the link to […]
This directory has moved. Here’s where we’re now keeping track (and trying hard to keep things up to date). In partnership with Van Ness Main Street, we are continually updating this directory of local stores, restaurants and institutions as they update their operational plans. VNMS is also keeping a list. Don’t see your business below? […]
An expanded Van Ness Main Street now works with businesses along the Connecticut Avenue corridor from Van Ness Street north to Nebraska Avenue. And it says, “All the businesses are prepared to work with you.” The Main Street is distributing a “Shop Local/Dine Local Guide” to the small businesses of Van Ness and Forest Hills. […]
by Marlene Berlin Members of the community arrived at the first public engagement meeting on the next UDC Campus Plan eager to hear about the university’s goals for the next decade. The University of the District of Columbia is, after all, an important cultural, community and commercial hub, and one with a growing presence, if […]
by Mary Beth Ray Mayor Muriel Bowser and a group of about 100 neighbors and civil servants spent Wednesday afternoon walking the Van Ness Connecticut Avenue corridor. She met citizens and merchants, and listened to a broad range of both complaints and creative ideas. Pedestrian and traffic safety, retail vibrancy, affordable housing, beautification, stormwater management […]
