WASHINGTON – For much of the last year, Chinatown has been a focal point of sorts with the surge in crime D.C. experienced in 2023.
FOX 5 covered businesses leaving, neighbors frustrated, the announcement that Monumental Sports and Entertainment was hoping to build an arena in Virginia and the subsequent announcement by Monumental that they would now stay.
While it may not have been on the timeline those stakeholders wanted, District leadership emphasized Tuesday – and in the last few months – that they are listening.
Mayor Muriel Bowser created a Chinatown Task Force, the D.C. Council passed the Secure D.C. bill aimed at improving public safety and the D.C. government also opened the District’s first Safe Commercial Corridor Hub in Chinatown in February.
“I would say that we’ve been doing this kind of intergovernmental work since at least the middle of last year,” said Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah.
“While it takes time …