Norton To Break Ground at Old Post Office Building, Welcomes Jobs & New Revenue to D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow, Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. for the historic Old Post Office building at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW, where construction will begin to convert the inside of the iconic, 114-year-old building into a luxury hotel. Norton and Donald and Ivanka Trump, the developers, will be joined by Mayor Vincent Gray and General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Dan Tangherlini. A Norton bill, the Old Post Office Building Redevelopment Act of 2008, required the redevelopment of the building.

"The Old Post Office building stands not only as a unique piece of our city's history, but as an iconic masterpiece we want to preserve and showcase for generations to come. The District has many fine and expensive hotels, but we have not had a Paris- or New York-level luxury hotel that caters to the many business executives and wealthy people who visit the nation's capital. A hotel at that level is expected to bring the city $100 million in tax revenue over ten years. We particularly look forward to the 700 construction jobs and the 300 permanent jobs that will be created by the project."