Here's why potential tenants say they won't lease at Gallery Place

The Greene Turtle is weighing a potential return to Chinatown.

The Columbia, Maryland-based restaurant chain was displaced in 2019 from its former space at Capital One Arena to make way for a new sportsbook, but it's longed since then to open a new spot in the area to be closer to the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards and the game-day business those teams generated.

It's weighing a lease of the former Tom's Watch Bar space at Gallery Place, the mixed-use complex a Seventh and H streets NW next to the arena, but whether it will return to the area remains up in the air, according to Geo Concepcion, the company's president and CEO. Read more

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Va. paid family leave bill, opposed by businesses, heads to Youngkin’s desk. Will he sign it?

Virginia’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly has advanced a bill that would create a paid family and medical leave program in the state, despite fierce opposition from business groups who say it will impose significant costs on employers.

The big question, though, is whether Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin will sign it, particularly after Democrats stripped language from a budget bill that would have created a framework for a $2 billion sports and entertainment district in Alexandria. Read more

Viewpoint: Move the Commanders — and the Caps and Wizards — to RFK site

Plenty has been written, said, posted and shouted about Ted Leonsis' nearly dead plan to move the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards to Potomac Yard in Alexandria.

Here's an idea: Why not move both teams to the RFK site, where they could join the Washington Commanders at a state-of-the-art sports, entertainment and mixed-use venue? Read more

Former Geppetto Catering exec gets jail time for theft, embezzlement

Joshua Carin, the former top executive at Geppetto Catering Co., will serve up to a year in custody for theft and embezzlement under a sentence handed down Wednesday afternoon. Read more

Vacant Loudoun County shopping center pitched for townhomes

The owner of the Shops at Moorefield Village is teeing up the empty shopping center in Ashburn for residential redevelopment. Read more

D.C. tech firm's AI tool can summarize complex legislation, regulations in seconds

For public affairs professionals, delving into mind-numbing legislation that can run on for hundreds of pages and then summarizing it for their bosses is an oft-cited bane of the job.

But now Quorum Analytics Inc., a D.C. tech firm that builds public affairs software, is offering some relief to those glassy-eyed staffers. Read more

A new sportsbook opens in D.C. just in time for March Madness

Grand Central Sportsbook & Cafe on H Street NE began accepting its first wagers Friday after receiving final approvals from the Department of Small and Local Business Development. Read more

This Weekly Edition was compiled by Alan Kline Questions? Comments? Concerns? Send them to akline@bizjournals.com