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• LAW OFFICES • LINOWES AND BLOCHER R. ROSE:RT LIN OWES SUITE 500 F"IF"TH l'l..00 R .JOSEPH P. BLOCHER 8720 GEORGIA AVENUE .JOHN .J. DELANEY 1025 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N. W. ROBERT H. ""ETZ SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 20910 CHARLES G. DALRYMPLE (3011 se.a-aseo ANDREW L. ISAACSON WASHINGTON,D.C.20036 .JOHN KIRKWOOD WHITE (301) 587-2343 STEPHEN Z. KAUFMAN (202) 872- 9080 EARl... L. SEGA.L CABl..E:MOLIN ROBE PT C. PARK, .JR. S.\RSARA A. SEARS DAVID. M. COHEN MICHAEL A. CAIN ELMER MOSTOW o .. v10 E. SHtF"F"RIN OF'COUNS.l!L. KENNETH L. SAMUELSON ANORE:W M. GOt..oSTEIN December 5, 1980 ELLEN KETTLER PASELTINER WILLIAM KOMINERS C;l \RI.ES F". STUART, .JR . .JAMES P. CARROLL SUSAN M. REUTERSHAN PHIL T F"EOLA BO:TH lF<ONS F"F<ENCH Mr. Glenn Graves The Harrison Institute 605 G Street, N.W. Suite 401 Washington, D.C. 20001 Re: The George Washington University Application for a Planned Unit Development Dear Glenn: Enclosed please a find a copy of the following report you requested: A Planning Report for 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., An Office/Retail Development, Advanced Technology, Inc., 7923 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 400, McLean, Virginia 22012. If you have any questions, please feel free to call. Sincerely, LINOWES AND BLOCHER Phil Feola Enclosure PF/dlh ZONING COMMISSION ~ CASE No. __"_· \.i __ -_\\_J.., __ _ EXHIBIT No. __·4-I..!.-, ___ _ 0 1ceip..iO0 ZONING COMMISSION District of Columbia CASE NO.80-11 EXHIBIT NO.47 OL. 9 NO. 1 JAN/FEB 1980 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 1970 campus plan shows area designated university commercial along Penn sylvania A venue where newest development will take place. was finding a way to provide for small retail estab integrate it into the existing park on Pennsylvania it GW Development lishments and to restore the former residential charac A venue," said Diehl. Closing off the 2000 block of Eye ter of the block. Because of its location, the university Street is envisioned in the city-approved 1970 campus Plan wants to create a focal point which would also be a plan and if it occurs, it will be the second block turned Incorporates major gateway to the campus." into a pedestrian park in five years. Approvals to University planners see the concept which resulted proceed with the Eye Street Mall adjoining Ross Hall, Red Lion Row from these meetings as providing an opportunity for a now under construction two blocks to the west, took ~ suitable mix of small retail businesses with commercial several years. (See page 3.) Amulti-million dollar commercial project planned office space. GW's multi-story, stepped-back office Like other GW commercial development along the by George Washington University in the 2000 block of building will rise behind the Eye Street residences, Pennsylvania Avenue corridor, the Eye Street project Eye Street, NW will include the houses sometimes which will be restored. The project, which is planned will provide a source of endowment revenue for the ~ referred to as Red Lion Row, university officials told to include about 400,000 square feet of office and university to help hold tuition increases to a minimum. G WTimes this month. commercial space, would be built as a planned unit It will also generate new taxes for the District of The university plan was announced after several development (PUD) and would cover the northern Columbia. But unlike the Thomas Edison and Joseph months spent in consultation with civic and preserva half of the block. A similar architectural scheme is Henry buildings, major portions of which are occu tionist groups and governmental officials. The univer found in the federal office buildings constructed pied by single lessees, the retail and office space on the ~ity purchased a major portion of the block from behind townhouses on Lafayette Square. interior of this project will be constructed so that it can ~lectrical contractor Howard P. Foley for $2.1 million The GW project, though, will be unique in West be leased to a number of tenants, adding to the diver in September 1979. It had acquired the balance of the End-Foggy Bottom. Residential windows and doors sity of life in the community. '})roperty over a period of years. will be restored to the street facades. A street-level Architects John Carl Warnecke and Associates "We wanted to seek the opinions and advice of the galleria with an enclosed atrium will be formed behind drew preliminary plans for the project and will be people this development will affect before we began the residential rowhouses. The new small businesses' joined by other architectural, landscape and planning ., the final planning process," said Charles E. Diehl, G W store fronts will open into the court. firms as the work progresses. Construction could vice president and treasurer. "A major concern of the The project has another major benefit: "We hope to begin as early as the spring of 1981 and will take two university and in the minds of neighborhood groups be able to close off Eye Street along that block and years to complete. D • Sociologist Etzioni Joins Faculty Pianist Boris Bloch Entertains · As First University Professor At Luther Rice Gala Evening Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist and a scholar of international renown, will join the George Washington University faculty in 1980, the GW Board of Trustees announced in October. Dr. Etzioni will be the first person to hold the newly established rank of university pro fessor. The establishment of this faculty rank allows the university to bring to campus scholars of distinguished reputation who have made significant contributions beyond any single discipline, demonstrating a wide range of knowledge and breadth of under standing. GW President Lloyd H. Elliott termed the action "one of the most important faculty appointments the university has ever made. Dr. Etzioni is a first-ranked scholar in social theory and sociology today," he said. Etzioni, who has taught at Columbia Uni versity since 1958, spent the past year at the Brookings Institution as guest scholar, and will come to GW from the White House, where he's a senior adviser in the Executive would deal specifically with research in pub Office of the President. lic policy. "Washington is the center of the world for Dr. Etzioni received his doctorate from public affairs," said Professor Etzioni, "and the University of California, Berkeley. He is Russian-born pianist Boris Bloch performed Milan and first prize in the International sociology can make a contribution to assure a Fellow of the American Sociological Asso before members of the Luther Rice Society Jaen Competition in Spain. His recital at that decisions made are socially valid." His ciation, a member of the Council on Foreign November l l at the society's annual gala GW, arranged through the cooperation of decision to remain in Washington and join Relations and a founding member of the evening. the Washington Performing Arts Society, the George Washington faculty was influ International Society of Political Psychol Over 250 guests heard Bloch present a was part of a year of important European enced, he said, by the fact that GW has been ogy. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and program of Mozart, Chopin and Busoni in debuts as well as major concert appearances effective in mobilizing its community and holds memberships on the editorial boards the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater and in the United States and Canada. resources, and by his belief that "G W is of numerous social science and policy studies talked with the artist afterwards at a buffet Members of the Luther Rice Society con ready to become the leading university in the periodicals. reception in the ballroom of the Cloyd Heck tribute $1,000 or more to the university area." He is a consultant to the U.S. Department Marvin Center. annually. Life members contribute a total of GW Provost Harold F. Bright says Pro of Education, the Office of Economic Op Mr. Bloch entered the Special Music $10,000 or make bequests and endowments fessor Etzioni's appointment is a logical and portunity, the Arms Control and Disarma School in Odessa in 1958 and made his con of $25,000 or more. The society was organ major move in the direction of greater aca ment Agency and the President's Commis cert de but at the age of eight. In 1972 he won ized in 1968 in memory of Luther Rice, pre demic excellence in research and teaching in sion on the Causes and Prevention of the All-Soviet Union Competition. He won eminent among the founders of George - " public policy. Violence. The author or editor of more than top prize in the Piccola Scala Competition in Washington University. A university professor may teach courses 15 books, he has written on topics ranging beyond any single discipline while continu from the next technological revolution, ing with scholarly activity. Dr. Etzioni's pro complex organizations and political unifica jected teaching schedule includes a lecture tion, to the domestic and international Parking Study Reveals course on contemporary American society implications of the space race and studies in , and a second course, a seminar, in which he social change. Transportation Habits On a "typical" university day last March, a mode of transportation. Public transporta survey to detail the travel patterns of stu tion accounted for 43 percent of all non dents, employees and visitors going to and walking trips. Students used bus or rail for from GW was conducted by transportation 53 percent of their trips; faculty, 38 percent; consultant Alan M.