D.C. Bar Seeks Subtenants

I am on record in my staunch (and futile) opposition to the District of Columbia Bar’s reckless, ill-considered and insufficiently transparent decision to build an office building as a monument to itself on the backs of its dues-paying members.

Well, I opened my most recent hard copy edition of the Bar’s Washington Lawyer magazine to a full page advertisement just inside the cover seeking tenants for the Bar’s present digs at 1101 K Street NW that notes (so far as is apparent) that the Bar actually is obligated on its present  lease through May 31, 2021 and is looking to unload “approximately 52, 375 square feet” of its obligations to subtenants.

52, 375 square feet. 

This whole venture is nothing but a gamble with other people’s money to provide offices sufficiently immense to house the immense selfish egos that will inhabit them.

And who profits from this venture in a financial sense?

Inquiring minds want to know.  (Mike Frisch)