{"id":366,"date":"2019-07-02T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=366"},"modified":"2019-07-02T02:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:00:24","slug":"william-jordan-analysis-my-morning-jog-1-11-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/366\/","title":{"rendered":"William Jordan Analysis: My Morning Jog – 1\/11\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was originally posted to the Adams Morgan Listserv on January 11, 2019, as message #50336, groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/AdamsMorgan\/conversations\/messages\/50336<\/a><\/p>\n

Just about every morning I jog down 14th St. past the The Tivoli, the CH Civic Plaza and the Metro Station. I do this for my health, enjoyment and to stay in contact with what’s going on in my community. Often while running I must stop at intersections to allow traffic to past. While this can be annoying, breaking my routine, it does give me a chance from time to time to talk to a few old friends. My favorite are the loose pavers. I’m sure many see them only as tripping hazards or a sign of institutional neglect that should be gotten rid of. But to me they are my friends.<\/p>\n

These loose pavers <www.pavestone.com\/productcategory\/pavers<\/a>> are my friends because they tell me stories about the neighborhood and the city, especially politics, citywide and community. I figured I would be be a good neighbor, share with you some of what they have shared with me.<\/p>\n

So this morning I was stopped at 14th & Kenyon and a paver called me over and shared the following:<\/p>\n

He was digging through the City’s 2017 Economic Development Report <cfo.dc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/dc\/sites\/ocfo\/publication\/attachments\/Appendix%20IV%20Detailed%20Economic%20Development%20Dollars%20by%20Recipient.pdf<\/a>> (pg. 23) and found that a REIT <www.reit.com\/what-reit<\/a>>, Wharf Horizontal REIT LLC <www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1631395\/000163138515000001\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml<\/a>>, setup by Monty Hoffman <www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/news\/2017\/10\/27\/monty-hoffman-is-now-the-proud-owner-of-a-wharf.html<\/a>> for the Wharf received at $2M New Communities Initiative <dcnewcommunities.org\/about-nci\/<\/a>> (NCI) grant from DMPED. Then he whispered that there is no NCI project at the Wharf that he knows of.<\/p>\n

Now you have to understand that pavers are big on fake news and gossip, so you can’t take what a paver says at face value, plus I’m not sure they can read. So I tested him by saying.<\/p>\n

“That’s not possible, The Wharf was given a waiver on their affordable housing requirements in there deal with the city. No way they would get a grant from a city agency\/program responsible for delivering affordable housing to basically not deliver affordable housing. Stop lying.”<\/p>\n

After some missive about laying pavers they don’t paver goes on to tell me that in that same year Hoffman also bought a $3.97M condo at the Wharf from himself <www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/news\/2017\/10\/27\/monty-hoffman-is-now-the-proud-owner-of-a-wharf.html<\/a>>. Figuring this is a joke, I smile and say to the paver,<\/p>\n

“The next thing you know, you are going to tell me that ANC1A passed a resolution requesting the city use public money to build at $2.7M dog park, with no plans in a spot that city regulations say you can’t legally host a dog park.”<\/p>\n

The light changed, pavers are so full of sh@t<\/a>, but I enjoy talking to them.<\/p>\n

William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was originally posted to the Adams Morgan Listserv on January 11, 2019, as message #50336, groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/AdamsMorgan\/conversations\/messages\/50336 Just about every morning I jog down 14th St. past the The Tivoli, the CH Civic Plaza and the Metro Station. I do this for my health, enjoyment and to stay in contact with what’s going on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housingarchive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}