Washington has the highest work-from-home rate of any major city. With an empty downtown, the city faces a real risk of economic peril.
based on card swipes in its 10 largest markets. D.C. is perennially dead last.
To people who depend on commuters’ lunch-hour spending or transit fees, the change is less welcome. According to John Falcicchio, the city’s economic-development boss and Bowser’s chief of staff, the federal government’s 200,000 D.C.
The problem, from the workers’ point of view, is that shoring up Metro’s finances or the city’s reputation isn’t really their job. When we spoke this week, Falcicchio was in diplomatic mode, stressing that the mayor’s inaugural was less about calling out the feds than asking them to partner on things like tapping existing programs that might transfer underused properties to locals.
Whether that’s sound urbanism and wise civic stewardship is to be determined. But what’s clear already is that the current moment represents another zig in the relationship between federal Washington and hometown D.C. — a change that, even if it mainly takes place at the municipal-news level, will likely impact the way national government and politics works.
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