REAL ESTATE
ROUNDUP!
Tony Williams deserves a ton lot of credit
for the real estate boom in DC. So what’s his new
magic act? Bisnow on Business is delighted to join
Arent
Fox and
Reznick
Group in presenting him and other very special speakers September 11—see ad on right or
register
here.
Out in Rockville last week, we dropped by for happies at
Congressional Plaza’s PGA Tour Grill hosted by
First Friday at Four’s Ron Wills. By day he's SVP of HarVest Bank of Maryland,
and was joined by HarVest Bank CEO Jack
Hollerbach, left, and Executive Chef Darrel
Goodman.
The action wasn't just on the court at Legg Mason
Tennis last week (see crowd through the
windows), but also inside the air-conditioned Akridge
suite. From left, Cushman's Brian
Schmergel, Transwestern's Christine
Masney, Davis Carter Scott's Marlene Wong,
Akridge's Mary Margaret Hiller,
and two heart-warming couples: Studley's Adam
Singer and wife Susanne, and
Studley co-chief Tom Fulcher and wife Jill
Minneman.
This picture of CBRE hot shot broker
Mike Fox at Legg Mason is so fuzzy, we’ll just
claim it was taken with a huge telephoto by Bisnow
paparazzi hovering center court in a rented
helicopter. Whoever the mystery brunette is, they were
heard whispering sweet nothings about cap rates
and IRRs.
We also caught sight of Kent Commercial head
Westy Kent, Akridge’s Corinne
Pignatelli and Katie Gorretta,
Randall Hagner’s George Voris, Akridge’s
Gene Kenney, and GVA Advantis’ Adrian
Checa.
Although at first he was puzzled by the question,
good-natured tennis star Andy Roddick agreed to
write down his best guess as to how much JBG’s 1201 K
Street will fetch per square foot if the Sheraton
Four Points is taken down and replaced by
ultra-trophy office.
Buff and Scrub! On Monday we were on the scene as
200 volunteers from 21 organizations including
Vornado and the Greater Washington Board of
Trade joined in sprucing up West End’s Francis
Junior High School. Pillsbury Winthrop,
FOX Architects, The Ritz, and
Cassidy & Pinkard were also out in force.
Above, Vornado President Mitchell Schear and
DC Mayor Fenty join BoT
chief Jim Dinegar as he shows the 49-star
flag his repair crew found still flying at the school—that’s how
long it’s been since things have changed. Besides painting the gym,
fixing lockers, and repairing AC units, the volunteers also sprang
for a new flag with all 50 stars.
The Pillsbury crew also rolled up their sleeves
and scrubbed: Meghan Exley, DC Managing
Partner Maureen Dwyer, and Amanda
Grenter. By the way, can you hear the wedding
bells? Meghan’s getting hitched in September in
Georgetown and Amanda is newly engaged!
In theory we knew Logan Circle was hopping. We
go there to visit Jim Abdo, Darrel
Rippeteau, the Studio Theatre, and
Whole Foods. But it was only this weekend that we
really walked the side streets and took in all the restaurants and
new buildings, courtesy of Workspaces, LLC's Khalid
Itum, above, who lives in the neighborhood. Wow, for those
of us who remember 14th Street way back, the
transformation is pretty much beyond belief.
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