VisionDC Happy Hour!
Monday evening we headed to the brand-new Hotel Hive in Foggy Bottom for VISIONDC's VIP Happy Hour! Here, Pepco Holdings' Debbi Jarvis, with real estate developer and Hotel Hive owner Jim Abdo, Levick Communications' Julie Chase and CulturalDC executive director Ava LaTanya Hilton.
VISIONDC is a collaborative initiative from CulturalDC that together with key stakeholders in the city will provide a crucial platform for artists, commercial real estate developers and the like to create strategies and partnerships for embracing urban growth through the expansion of the creative economy. Here, Steve Hilton joins Arena Stage trustee David Shiffrin, PR guru Janice Kaplan and Hilton.
VIP guests came together at the brand-new and creative Hive Bar to support this crucial cultural initiative. Here, City Chic Real Estate's Lindsay Dreyer with Telesis' Georgia Abraham.
Guests enjoyed access to an open bar with delicious cocktails. Here, CastroHaase's Carlos Ortiz and Tanja Castro with Bank of America's Maurice Perry.
The VISIONDC, Arts and Urban Innovation Summit, will be held on April 24 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theatre. Here, commissioner Haili Francis and Ariana Austin, founder of French Thomas Creative.