Half Street Market and Teaching Restaurant Survey

Location of 49L Street South East. GSA owned warehouse at the corner of L and Half Streets SE

Rate the value of the Half Street Market and Restaurant Concept to cultivate a unique sense of place in Capitol Riverfront by improving the future Half Street pedestrian corridor within the district.

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Rate the value to the community to have a market that will showcase small producers that practice traditional farming or production techniques.

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Rate the value to the community to provide a specialty and artisan food retail market that attracts customers to and from Ward 6 and connects shopping in Barrack Row, Eastern Market and SW Wharf Fish Market to the Capitol Riverfront.

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Estimate new (additional) household weekly purchases for high quality selections of prepared artisan and ethnic products sold at the Half Street Market and Restaurant

Will not be a Half Street Market customer Less than $25 per week Greater than $25 but less than $50 Greater than $50 but less than $75 Greater than $75 but less than $100 Greater than $100

Rate the value of the Half Street market to serve as a food business incubator for Capitol Riverfront to drive entrepreneurial growth and new employment

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Rate the value of the Half Street Market to provide value as a retail catalyst by mobilizing new retail investment capital to Half Street.

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Other, comments on the Market and potential role in Half Street development encouraged

The Half Street Market will have the following impact on the local food market

(-) Negative impact with duplication or no market for market retail services in the community. (+) Positive impact, expands total retail food commerce or food choices in the community.

Other, comments on competition with traditional grocery stores encouraged

The General Services Administration makes real estate available to communities for public purposes. Federal properties can contribute to community vitality by expanding employment opportunities, housing for homeless, education, parks and open space. Does public culinary education implemented in a demonstration kitchen and restaurant provide benefits to the community? Please check all that apply

(+) Culinary education is complimentary and enhanced by an education-demonstration restaurant at the Half Street Market. (+) Public culinary education can link urban to rural food economies in the community. (+) Public culinary education can promote public health with better food choices. (+) Public culinary education can provide economic opportunity for new businesses. (+) Public culinary education can catalyze the services of the market to the broader community (-) None, I do not support this mission for the market

The Capitol Riverfront should enlist the support of key city federal, private, corporate organizations and offices for Half Street Market and Restaurant. Check the external interfaces that should be engaged for this concept:

City political leaders including ANC, City Council, City Departments Federal agencies, GSA, Department of Education etc. Local interfaces, other residents in the Capitol Riverfront and Southwest Press with focus on Capitol Riverfront blogs and ListServe Groups Non-profit partners providing culinary vocational/educational services None, I do not support additional steps on this concept Other (Please Specify)

We are looking for volunteers that would like to join our crusade to bring the Half Street Market and Restaurant to the Capitol Riverfront. If you are interested in joining our team please provide your name and contact data.

Please provide the following information

Name
General resident location e.g. SW, SE, Building name
Email Address
Phone number
General Comments

Citizen Committees working to move the Half Street Market forward are forming now! Act and check the committee that you would like to join. Email kaminskied@comcast.net and go to halfstreetmarketblogspot.com

Half Street Market Public Outreach Committee: We need a building meeting organized in each Capitol Riverfront building over the next 3-6 months. Half Street Market 501 (c) 3 Steering Committee: • We need strategy and free legal assistance to form a new 501 (c) 3 Half Street Market Congressional Relations Committee: Need to target house and senate members, meet with congressional staff and present the Half Street Market Concept Half Street Market City Relations Committee: We need to target elected and city functional leaders and brief them on the Half Street Market Concept. Half Street Market Business and School Relationship Committee: We need to target schools, restaurant business and business associations to support Half Street Market 501 (c) 3 and build a network of market partners.

Southwest Ariel View

Classroom Space and Demonstration Kitchen for Culinary Training. Think TOP CHEF with realtime streaming cyber links to DCPC Schools, Howard University, GW University and University of District of Columbia.

Restaurant: The restaurant is a key element to the Half Street Market concept because it provides both career and educational activities, as well as provides another layer of activity and amenity to the Half Street streetscape. By lofting an activity generator such as this on the building, it provides another opportunity for late-hour site activity as well as an architectural opportunity to create visual interest visible to the street level. This restaurant will be like none other in the city by functioning as an educational kitchen in addition to the one servicing the restaurant. The core principle of this concept is to provide an opportunity for high school, college, and vocational students studying in the culinary fields to have a hands-on training facility that also serves as a traditional restaurant. This ‘kitchen-classroom’ could also be visible to restaurant patrons to give an experience much like that on the TV shows “Top Chef” and “Hell’s Kitchen”. The classroom could even live-stream lessons to other schools and universities as a web-based learning tool. The restaurant itself would also provide a new destination to further enliven the area both through its architecture, as well as providing outdoor seating facing Half Street. Through both a compelling design and an educational program component, this restaurant could become a unique culinary destination that further propels DC into the international culinary community.

	Take Metro	Drive my car	Walk or bike	Not customer at venue
Restaurant Food Purchase
Market Food Purchase
Grocery Store Food Purchase

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Half Street Market and Teaching Restaurant Survey