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The Wharf Opens 9TH ST SW 7TH ST SW October 2017 Uber & Lyft Circulation 13,000 FREE Pick-up/Drop-off MAINE AVENUE SW MAINE AVENUE SW SW Capital SHUTTLE Bikeshare Capital Bikeshare DISTRICT SQUARE SUTTON SQUARE Ligne Roset Bella Moda Florentijn Belgian Bistro d/Eleven Capital A Bikeshare Beautiful 7TH STREET SW BLAIR ALLEY Closet Blush Lupo Milk Bar (Penthouse Bar) Martha Spak Marino Gallery Harper MARKET SQUARE Macaw WATER STREET the press dry cleaning | laundry Politics and PEARL STREET Prose Italian Market by Blink Nick Stefanelli Optical Cordial Craft Wine, Union WATER STREET Beer & Spirits Stage La Vie Southwest Soda Pop Shop District Kith and Kin Yoga Kaliwa by Anchor Doughnut by Kwame Factory MARKET Onwuachi Cathal Armstrong PLAZA InterContinental Hotel Potomac The Brighton (Lobby Bar and Rooftop Bar) SUTTON Distilling Wharf 7TH STREET Rappahannock Company Fire Pit Oyster Bar SQUARE Patrick’s Fine Linen PARK and Home Décor WHARF STREET WHARF STREET WHARF STREET MUNICIPAL FISH MARKET MARKET PIER Capital Yacht Club Anthem Jesse Taylor Seafood Box Office Captain White Seafood City Salt Water Seafood Water Taxi Cantina Bambina DISTRICT PIER DISTRICT Water Taxi Departure RECREATION PIER TRANSITPIER On Oct. 12, The Wharf finally opens along the Washington Channel in Southwest Washington, DC. Image credit: Illustration courtesy of The Wharf LETTER FROM THE SWNA PRESIDENT Page 2 Jitney Departure Dockmaster IT’S HERE:Building Wharf KIRWAN’STorch IRISH PUB THE WHARF OPENS Page 3 BY: SHANNON VAUGHN fter more than a decade The 60-foot-wide Wharf Street of starts and stops, The promenade will separate the Wharf finally arrives. On Oct. 12, the Southwest Washington Channel from the waterfront will begin a new era bringing the capital’s most anticipated Anation’s waterfront on par with other “ THE ANTHEM IS MORE THAN great waterfront cities. venture in decades. As professor Robert Lewis says, “Wash- THE FOO FIGHTERS ington has comparatively little residential, to take the Water Taxi from Transit Pier On the Maine Avenue side of the mile- Page 3 commercial, or cultural structures occu- to Nationals Park, National Harbor, Old long venture, Capital Bikeshare will add pying its shorelines. A few developments, Town Alexandria, or Georgetown. There two new docks open at 9th St. SW and such as the Watergate complex and Ken- is also a free Wharf Jitney from the Recre- near the Fish Market, joining the cur- nedy Center, have river views and prox- ation Pier to ride across to East Potomac rent dock near Arena Stage/Gangplank imity but without river connectivity.” The Park. Marina. ” Wharf has both proximity and river con- GALLERY REOPENING District Pier, The Wharf’s largest pier The Southwest Shuttle will offer nectivity. The 60-foot-wide Wharf Street is a dramatic gathering place and back- free rides to L’Enfant Plaza Metro/VRE promenade will separate the Washington Page 4 drop to festivals. Market Pier is for direct station (7th St. and Maryland Ave. SW), Channel from the capital’s most antici- waterside access for boaters and visitors the National Mall (7th St. at Indepen- pated venture in decades. to the Market Square and the Munici- dence Ave. SW), and L’Enfant Plaza/Inter- PROPOSED CHANGES TRANSIT pal Fish Market. Besides the Water Taxi, national Spy Museum (10th St. SW). TO SW BUS LINES Transit Pier is a bustling launch pad that The Wharf will be served from the will also have a number of things to do, GREEN SPACE water’s edge for patrons coming or going. Page 6 from live concerts to ice skating in the The Wharf is home to 10 acres of parks Public docking will allow guests arriving winter. Patrons will be able to rent kayaks and open green spaces as well as four by water to tie up and visit the many shops and paddleboards from the public-access distinct piers for recreation and transpor- along the promenade. For those look- COMMUNITY CALENDAR Recreation Pier (or bring your own), and ing to escape by water, they will be able take them directly onto the water. See “Wharf,” page 5 Page 14 FIND US ONLINE AT THESOUTHWESTER.COM, OR @THESOUTHWESTER @THESOUTHWESTER /THESOUTHWESTERDC Published by the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly, Inc. (SWNA) — a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable and educational corporation. Page 2 The Southwester October 2017 A Letter from the President of SWNA BY: BRUCE LEVINE, SWNA PRESIDENT Joe Paul Donna Purchase (incumbent) s we prepare to enter into a new chapter in the history Nicole Renard of our Southwest neighborhood with the opening of The Andrew Roszak Wharf on Oct. 12, I am pleased to announce to you the A Lisa Taylor new Board of Directors of the Southwest Neighborhood Assem- I will continue in the position of president for the next year, bly (SWNA). Our organizational mission is to work to enhance after which the board will elect someone to serve a two-year the quality of life of all Southwest residents and I think we are stint. Another individual who was elected will not be able to now particularly well-positioned to do that. serve and so we will be electing another board member soon. We announced earlier this year that we would transition to Jacqueline Walker Even as our new board organizes and undertakes strategic a new organizational structure by which a sitting board would [email protected] planning, look for continued and enhanced communications identify and vote on candidates to fill vacancies, and this year, online and via The Southwester—yes, this newspaper is pub- we had the simultaneous task of reducing the size of our board to lished by SWNA—to build community in Southwest, to keep our seven members. The result of our recruitment process is that the citizenry well informed, and to make sure our dynamic quadrant WE KNOW OUR STUFF. following Southwest residents have been voted onto the SWNA remains the uniquely desirable location that it is today. Which helps when board and will be installed in October: we’re insuring yours. Great coverage, rates and insurance advice from Nationwide®. Westminster to Screen The Good Breast in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month n observation of Breast Cancer Month, Westminster Presbyterian Church’s JACQUELINE A WALKER AGENCY I Faith & Film Ministries is partnering 420 8th St. SE with the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Washington, DC 20003 Fund in presenting the documentary The (202) 548-5240 Good Breast, an official selection of the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival. The documentary shares the diverse ©2006 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and Affiliated emotional journeys of four women and Companies. Nationwide Life Insurance Company. Home office: Columbus, Ohio 43215-2220. Nationwide, the Nationwide Framemark and On Your Side are federally registered service their surgeon as they face the challenges marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Not available in all states. of breast cancer. Their experiences reveal < 2.5 inches > The Southwester how the breast is far more than just an dette Wegenstein. She is an Austrian-born Circulation 13,000 organ, but contains within it all the his- linguist, author, and professor at Johns Send submissions and questions to The tory, suffering, and power of female iden- Hopkins University, where she is also the Southwester by e-mail at editor@thesouthwest- er.com. Submissions for each monthly issue tity. In the documentary, veteran surgeon founder and director of the Center for are due on the 15th of the preceding month. Dr. Lauren Schnaper advocates for breast Advanced Media Studies. Her past docu- conservation and debunks breast cancer mentaries include Made Over in America For advertising information and rates, myths. 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