The interim use plan, which is now a reality.

Tomorrow morning, the developers interested in answering the request for proposal out for the Bruce Monroe School site on Georgia Avenue will gather at Howard University's GADGET Center to hear more details about how the process will work. But they won't be convening in peace: Local activist group Empower DC has issued a call for a rally outside the building to protest what the city may allow to happen.

Specifically, they're angry about the requirement that developers propose a commercial-and-residential-only option for the site, in which case funds would be made available for improvements at Park View Elementary, where the Bruce Monroe student body is temporarily housed. From the release:

The inclusion of an option for commercial development, with no school at all, was yet another broken promise for parents, teachers and community members who had repeatedly met with the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Planning and Economic Development and Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham to discuss the RFP, during which the option was never mentioned. Parents now see it as yet another set-up, paving the way for the administration to give the site to favored developers for private development.

Empower DC hasn't been active on this issue before, but they've been joined by Teaching for Change, which has worked closely with parents of Bruce Monroe school students. A spokesman from the office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development emphasized that community members would be part of the process of choosing a development plan.

Last week, activists joined together in front of the Wilson Building. And in late March, they gathered by the office of Neil Albert, head of the city's office of planning and economic development.

Now, it looks like they're going for round III: This evening, a group from Empower DC will stand with signs in front of the Washington Hilton at the start of the D.C. Building Industry Association's awards ceremony, according to the Washington Business Journal.

Their target doesn't seem to be building community in general, but more specifically the honorees of the evening.

The association plans to present achievement awards to Mayor Adrian Fenty, and his "cronies," as Empower DC calls them, Neil O. Albert, Linda Argo, Leila Finucane Edmonds, and Harriet Tregoning (click the link for the full titles).