ANC 5A distributed an image of a letter from McDonald’s to ANC 5A regarding the demolition and rebuilding of the McDonald’s located at 4950 South Dakota Avenue NE.
The image reads:
February 3, 2025
TO: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 5A
5171 South Dakota Avenue NE
Washington, DC 20017
RE: McDonald’s Restaurant Pre-Construction Update
4950 S DAKOTA NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20017
Dear Commissioners:
I am writing to advise the status and timing, as known today, of the upcoming rebuild of the referenced McDonald’s, specifically the project’s start date.
McDonald’s is in Final Plan Review with the DC Department of Buildings.
We are expecting the Building Permit to be released on or before Thursday, February 13th and our Last Day of Sales to be on Monday, February 17th.
McDonald’s will send a RELEASE TO CONSTRUCTION notice via email to the General Contractor, Mingle Construction, no later than Thursday, February 13th, IF those dates continue to hold.
I will personally ensure the Commissioners are copied on that Release, when it occurs.
Residents are instructed to send questions, comments, and concerns to ANC Commissioner Elaine Alston (5A08) at 5A08@anc.dc.gov.
Next Stop...Riggs Park 
It is absolutely hilarious to me that folks who supported the McDonalds getting a drive-thru to allow a long-standing local business to renovate and improve are silent when they hear said long-standing business has up and left before the construction has even begun, selling out to a much larger, less local owner.
We hear crickets.
Perhaps because this was all just a convenient fiction they told themselves while keeping needed housing out of our neighborhood and making it more likely our kids and seniors will be hit by cars? I guess we’ll never know.
I think it is sad & was wholly predictable. An unfortunate representation by OP, the ANC, the ZC, and especially NMPCA under the leadership of an individual who doesn’t even live in NMP anymore, generating a lot of really unfortunate and irresponsible discourse. And now that OP paved the way for this in NMP, McDonald’s is trying to do the same thing in a neighborhood in Ward 7. OP’s actions in this whole affair are truly baffling.
so true.
I got OP to admit on the record that drive throughs aren’t best practice in places where people walk and yet they still allow them in densely zoned areas.