Over by the Booker T. Washington Charter School at the corner of Florida and 14^th N.W. there was a strange, new community meeting that took place at a space called ‘GeekEasy’ on a balmy Tuesday evening, 1/30/12. Now I’ve been places in DC and know ‘the community’ in all 4 quadrants, but this was a new experience.

We met Demian Bichir at Gala Theatre on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at a special event, unforgettable not only because of the film and the guests, but for deeply personal reasons as well. He was onstage with Senator Bob Melendez, Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan, Angela Kelly from the Center for American Progress and Chris Weitz the Director of the movie.

I’ve been involved with the redevelopment of the 1400 block of Park Road for over 5
years now. Although we celebrated substantial completion of this renovation on May 16th of
2011 (video here), just recently Keystone Construction finished the few remaining details of the
complete makeover of the block by installing banners and light boxes on the storefronts (photos
here).