Cities are about connections. When you disconnect the grid from a place’s surrounding natural features, you lose the essence of these connections, and the built environment becomes a mere jumble of buildings between unconnected voids. Foggy Bottom Future is an organization devoted to the necessary development that allows for this reconnection to provide memorable places for humans to live, learn, work, and visit.
Let’s not wait for the future, let’s build it!
How can we build the future of Foggy Bottom?
- Enhance walkability and road safety, prioritizing pedestrians.
- Improve accessibility and connections to the Potomac River, Georgetown Waterfront, Rock Creek Trail, and the Kennedy Center.
- Redesign the terminus of Virginia Ave NW at Rock Creek Parkway, taking into account the L’Enfant Plan.
- Demonstrate that “responsible development” isn’t or at least does not have to be an oxymoron.
- Ensure that public engagement processes lead to the best outcomes instead of endless investments in red tape.
- Public-Private Partnership success is measured by what is delivered transparently, not just what is promised.
- Achieve workforce housing and resilience goals outlined in D.C.’s Comprehensive Plan.
- Remove or reconfigure the Whitehurst Freeway ramps to mend the rift in the city’s grid.
- Explore expanded Metro options through the WMTA easement in the area.
- Cap the subgrade sections of I-66/Potomac River Freeway for development and park use.
- Exchange zoning accommodations for onsite inclusive and equitable housing opportunities.
- Foster relationships for public/private partnerships.
Foggy Bottom Past
The Foggy Bottom community, like many parts of what has become Washington, DC, grew out of a swamp. Explore a growing gallery of images and narrative from our communities’ past.
Foggy Bottom Resources
The contemporary Foggy Bottom community is in the process of becoming. It is ripe for change based on a host of challenges that need to be addressed and the growing appetite for understanding how we can best meet them.
Foggy Bottom Future
Imagine that responsible development does not have to be an oxymoron. Can the Foggy Bottom community and the other stakeholders articulate an enduring confluence of interests regarding our community’s future?
About Us
Foggy Bottom Future Inc is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization focused on understanding our community’s challenges, exploring the solution space of how we can address them, and marshalling the necessary confluence of interests and resources to make it so.
Upcoming Events
Every day new opportunities for engagement arise where we can lend our efforts to building the Foggy Bottom Community we wish to see come to pass. We aim to maintain a current calendar of upcoming events of particular relevance to this forum.
Contact Us
FBF-Inc principals can be contacted by email, phone, or in person at our office by appointment.
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