Today, a portion of 18th Street, Northwest, in Adams Morgan is a pedestrian zone between noon and 10 PM 🚶
the news yesterday. The BID received $525,000 grant from the Streets for People program, which funds new public spaces in the city.“The objective of the pedestrian zones is to provide economic recovery for all of the businesses in Adams Morgan,” Kristen Barden, Executive Director of the Adams Morgan Partnership BID, tellsin an email.
Outside vendors aren’t allowed in the zone, but the block will include pop-up style entertainment, such as street performers and outdoor workshops, and “streateries.” Businesses can also set up tables outside their locations. The BID wants to eventually install permanent metal cables that can stretch across the width of the street to close off traffic while the zone is operating; for now it will use trucks and police cars to block off the streets.
In 2020, the Adams Morgan Commercial Development Coalition, a group of local business owners, developers, and ANC commissioners, pushed to make the closures permanent in an effort to “reinvent” the thoroughfare. The coalition brought in the international architecture firm Perkins Eastman to help with the project, and the Adams Morgan ANC unanimously passed a plan for the pedestrian zone, which appeared later that month. But a timetable for future closures was unclear until this week.
“After the Mayor’s June 2020 pilot street closure, we received overwhelming support that the closure assisted our business’ recovery,” Barden writes. “For the last two years, we have worked tirelessly with our DC government and community partners to bring back the Pedestrian Zone in support of our businesses, neighbors, and visitors.”
Though the first few closures are part of a trial, the BID’s grant includes seven full weekend closures on a monthly basis, Barden tells, and the group hopes to expand the days and times when the street is closed off in the future.
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