The new Reeves Center will include offices for the NAACP, a restaurant and comedy club, and more than 300 housing units — at least 30% of which will be affordable to low-income residents.

New proposals place heavy emphasis on the arts, and could include a Dave Chappelle Comedy Club, restaurants, and a Songbyrd Music House location.

The city is reopening the bidding process for the effort to redevelop the 40-year-old government building on 14th Street, which will eventually be home to the NAACP’s national headquarters.

The T Street Station Post Office is moving up the block, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced in a press release yesterday. The mail depot, she said, will be relocating to the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets.

Good morning, Washington. Howard University refuses to relegate homecoming to a single weekend’s football game. Instead, the historically black university boasts a multi-day bash that’s said to be unrivaled in the Mid-Atlantic. The 87th annual cultural celebration kicked off last week, and this morning is the university’s spirited homecoming parade. The event kicked off at 9:30 am, so go grab a spot along Georgia Avenue near Banneker High School for a good view of the procession.

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At 5:30 this morning, Jethro Smith arrived at the Reeves Center, ready to work. Smith, a Board of Elections and Ethics technical clerk, was fully prepared to meet the crowds ready to vote in this year’s general election at Precinct 141, which is tucked away inside ground floor of the Center. Smith had put in a six-hour shift at the precinct yesterday, preparing equipment and setting up for registration, and he was ready to put in at least fifteen hours of today. Such long hours are necessary — the Board has repeatedly promised that the general election would be a better voting experience for citizens than September’s Democratic primary, and such promises take a lot of elbow grease to fulfill.

About 100 supporters gathered at the Franklin D. Reeves Municipal Center Tuesday afternoon to watch D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray file his paperwork to enter the 2010 mayoral contest. Gray submitted the requisite signatures at approximately 2:20 p.m. Chants of “Run, Vincent, Run!” accompanied Gray as he entered the building and made his way up to the fourth floor. Once the task was completed, they changed to “Win, Vincent, Win!” Standing amid a modest number…

Welcome to Friday, Washington … and the last day of August, and the beginning of your holiday weekend, and more or less the end of the summer? This particular date, as you prepare for your weekend barbecues and last-minute getaways, is always a bit of a depressing occasion. It may not be the de jure end of the summer, but it’s certainly the de facto one. To cheer you up about the imminent demise…

Good morning, Washington. An estimated 10,000 people attended the dedication Sunday of the official memorial for the 32 victims killed at Virginia Tech on April 16. Students at the university, about four hours outside D.C., begin classes for the fall semester today. On the same day as the dedication, about 23 Virginia Tech students living in an off-campus apartment building were taken to hospitals after showing signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Several of the…