Sixty-five businesses from D.C. will receive the grants with investments ranging from $50,000 to $750,000.

Brian Kenner was the mayor’s top economic official for four and a half years. He left for a job at Amazon after working on the District’s bid to bring the tech behemoth to the city. 

On Saturday, the gates of the St. Elizabeths Hospital east campus will be thrown open to the public, marking the next stage in the long, gradual redevelopment of the Congress Heights landmark.

Courtesy the Office of the Mayor This morning Mayor Adrian Fenty named Valerie Santos as his new Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Santos replaces former DMPED Neil Albert, who was recently promoted to City Administrator after Dan Tangherlini exited for the Obama administration. Previously, Santos had served as chief operating officer under Albert. Some of the major development projects long in financing limbo that will now be under Santos’s guidance: the Southwest…