From the
Washington Business Journal, first word that Mayor Fenty won the battle of wills on the fate of the
Anacostia Waterfront Corporation and the
National Capital Revitalization Corporation, as apparently
the city council voted today to fold both agencies into the mayor's office, under the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Development. An alternate plan pushed by council member Kwame Brown had called for the creation of a new single quasi-independent "Economic Development Agency" that would have assumed control of a few of the largest projects currently under the auspices of the AWC and NCRC, with the rest going to the deputy mayor; that idea now falls by the wayside. Deputy Mayor Neil Albert (whose plate just got a whole lot fuller) is now tasked with creating a plan for the integration of the two agencies into his office, to be presented to the council in August and to the city in a series of public forums this summer. I'll add more links as the additional news stories come down the pike. To start, here's the
press release from the mayor.
