Via a newsletter from the NoMa BID, the group will be embarking on a branding offensive in the coming months–they've retained the Roan Group to come up with the right way to sell that overbuilt ghost town of an emerging neighborhood. And on June 11th, they'll be holding a "Community Branding Session" to lend their [...]

Constitution Square
The Noma Business Improvement District's latest newsletter came out last week. I've marveled in the past about the fast-moving changes in the area. (Some of this information has been reported before, so sorry—It won't be the first time in the history of blog production.) Here's a progress report on various construction projects:
What's done:

The [...]

DCMetrocentric found the photo first. But I figured I'd post it here as well. This image shows the artistic rendering for the new 360,000-square-foot National Public Radio building designed by Hickok Cole Architects.

The rendering of the new dormitory/classroom building by Hickok Cole Architects
Okay, maybe "boom" is going a little too far. But between the huge expansion of George Washington University over the years, the $38 million student facility being built in NoMa, and now this New York University news, it seems student housing is presenting some great [...]

Well, one part of it.
St. Elizabeths is not quite ready for the Department of Homeland Security. So DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has signed a five year lease with One NoMa Station, according to the Washington Business Journal.

Slowly but surely, spaces are filling.
From the Washington Business Journal: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services signed a five-year lease to take the entire second floor of  One NoMa Station at 131 M St. NE.  The building is now more than 73 percent leased.

Oooh, bad timing.
This week's Washington Business Journal features a front page story about the struggles of Two Constitution Square, future home to the Department of Justice and the expected "turning point" for NoMa, "a formerly blighted area" that "leaders envision as a lively new federal enclave," according to the piece.
Next to the front page headline [...]

Today's New York Times has a story about NoMa, D.C.'s next "hot address"...at some point down the line. “In eight or 10 years,” states one source, “it’s clearly going to be a thriving urban environment.”
The piece is a nice little roundup of what's already established and what's to come in the area. So, in case [...]