Neighborhood News

Adams Morgan in StreetSense's Vibrant Streets video

DDOT will pay your staff to come in early to accept deliveries!

Changes coming to commercial loading zones

Save the Date - November 17th - have wine with your business neighbors

Adams Morgan Farmers Market for Saturday November 1

New regulation facilitates small business crowd funding

Adams Morgan in StreetSense's Vibrant Streets video

We were invited to participate in Vibrant Streets video submission to the Guardian newspaper's and the UN-Habitat's World Cities Day challenge. TODAY October 31, 2014 was the inaugural World Cities Day.

The video aired this morning for the first time on the Guardian's website with live Twitter fed Q&A.

The Vibrant Streets initiative was chosen to be one of five initiatives among other US cities to be chosen to participate in this competition. The competition is to acknowledge a "groundbreaking project that can be replicated in cities around the world".

You can watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2mVAdkXa2Q&feature=youtu.be

DDOT will PAY your staff to come in early to accept deliveries

Changes coming to commercial loading zones

Save the Date: The Grapevine: Wine with your business neighbors - November 17th

Adams Morgan business owners:

Our business owner friends on U Street have invited us to join them for a business owner networking happy hour on November 17th.

Join us on Monday, November 17 from 7-9pm for a local business owner networking happy hour. Get to know your neighbors, meet new people, sip wine, and relax before the holiday rush.

Wine will be provided courtesy of Jackson Family Wines and Monument Fine Wines. Any local business who would like to provide light appetizers will be featured as a co-sponsor. Hint! Hint!

Please contact Erin Price Schabert, erin@smithcenter.org , (202) 483-8600 if interested in donating some food or drink.

The Grapevine will be held at Smith Center for Healing and the Art’s Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery located at 1632 U Street, NW.

Erin Price-Schabert

Development Manager

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

1632 U Street, NW | Washington, DC | 20009

p 202.483.8600 | f 202.483.8601 | smithcenter.org

Perhaps the next business owner happy hour we can host on 18th Street or Columbia Road???? Please let Kristen know if you are interested in hosting the next one: kbarden@adamsmorganonline.org or 202-997-0783.

Adams Morgan Farmers Market offerings for Saturday November 1

ADAMS MORGAN FARMERS MARKET

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1,

8:00AM - 1:00PM RAIN OR SHINE

We'll be at the market rain or shine!

The cold weather on our farm has ripened the STAYMAN WINESAP APPLES to perfection!  Sweet/sour/juicy with a wine-like sap bursting out (and no pesticides!).

It's also the first week for GOLDRUSH one of the best desert apples in the region!  And, the last week for HONEYCRISPS.

And we'll have APPLE CIDER.  It is amazing.

Unfortunately, the cold has done a number on our TOMATOES - we'll have a few, but not many!

Check out the WINTER SQUASHES, especially KOBOUCHA and CARNIVAL.

And some more large heads of CAULIFLOWER.

We have an abundance of HOT PEPPERS.  Let us know if you want a quantity for the winter.

Plus all our other fall veggies.

Don't forget to bring bags, pt and qt containers.

See you Saturday.

Michael, Charmaine, Esther and our amazing farm staff
Licking Creek Bend Farm

New regulation facilitates small business crowd funding

District of Columbia small businesses now have another option for raising capital through a new regulation issued by the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking.

The new regulation, “ District of Columbia-Only Securities Offerings Exemption ,” establishes an exemption from the District’s full securities registration requirements in order to simplify and encourage investing in D.C.-based small businesses.

This type of offering, known as “intrastate,” is exclusive to District-based businesses and can only be offered and sold to District residents. Intrastate offerings, securities that can only be purchased in the state of issue, are not subject to Securities and Exchange Commission registration but fall within the department’s jurisdiction. In addition, the business entity must be organized under D.C. law to qualify.

District residents with incomes of $100,000 or less may purchase the securities in amounts not to exceed $10,000. District residents with incomes of between $100,000 and $200,000 may purchase the securities in amounts not to exceed $25,000. District residents with incomes greater than $200,000 may purchase the securities with no limitation on the amount of the investment, subject to a graduated offering ceiling of $2 million. Also, District of Columbia-organized companies with assets or net income in excess of $1 million may purchase the securities with no limitation on the amount of the investment, subject to the graduated offering ceiling.

Businesses with audited financials may raise up to $2 million under this regulation. One million may be raised by issuers without audited financials if they provide financials reviewed by certified public accountants. An issuer can raise up to $500,000 provided it has financial statements and representations on the part of the company principals.

Also, in this regulation, issuers can advertise the offering through the website of a licensed broker-dealer, or through the issuer’s website, to the extent permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rule 147.

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act or “JOBS Act” established a new class of securities firms called “funding portals.” District issuers may use funding portals when the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority implement the funding portal provisions of the JOBS Act.

To view the final rule and for more information, follow this link .

For more information c ontact:

Kate Hartig, (202) 442-7753
kathryn.hartig@dc.gov