DC’s Office Real Estate Market May Not Be Doomed After All

For years, the real-estate analytics provider CoStar has handed out its Power Broker Awards for the best in commercial real estate. Washingtonian has again teamed up with CoStar, this time to salute multi-year winners of its Power Broker Awards. To earn a Career Achievement Award and a spot on this Washingtonian list, a broker or firm must have won a Power Broker Award in at least three of the past six years—no easy feat, given all the market challenges.

Georgetown’s Three-Story Barnes & Noble Is Making a Comeback—But It’ll Be Very Different

Following a successful rebrand, the bookstore chain is opening 50 new locations this year. Barnes & Noble is having a renaissance. Under new CEO James Daunt, the bookstore chain is doing away with its cookie-cutter spaces stuffed with board games and toys, and giving its business model a new focus—books. The strategy: to make each existing and forthcoming location feel like a hyperlocal indie bookshop.