The Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP) recently released its 2021 Neighborhood Profiles. Find the profile sheet for Riggs Park here. Forthcoming projects Riggs Park Place and Art Place at Fort Totten Phase II are once again highlighted in the profile.

I always like to see if there is anything different from year to year. You can see the 2020 profile sheet here. I can’t say there’s much change in demographic data (expected). The neighborhood Main Street for Riggs Park (The Parks Main Street) gets prominent placement, having expanded in the last year or so to include the businesses on 2nd and 3rd streets NE. WDCEP also added Manor Park to the profile sheet this year because The Parks Main Street also covers one commercial block in the Manor Park neighborhood.

A couple of items included in the 2020 profile that did not make it into this year’s profile are the extension of the Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT) from Brookland to Fort Totten and the full rebuild of the neighborhood library, the Lamond-Riggs Library. Both of those are big exciting projects, and both are on track to be completed in the next several months (the MBT extension in December 2021 and the library in spring 2022).

It’s a tall order to capture a neighborhood in one small snapshot, so I always appreciate WDCEP’s efforts to highlight DC’s many diverse commercial corridors in a simple, elegant manner. Shoutout to head of WDCEP Keith Sellars who is a fellow Riggs Park neighbor.