D.C. officials are going back to China.

Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who oversees the District’s tax code, called Mayor Vince Gray’s proposal to rewrite some high-tech incentives as a way of keeping daily-deals company LivingSocial based in Washington a “good start.”

According to a senior D.C. official, Mayor Vince Gray is still in negotiations with the Washington Redskins over a plan to relocate the team’s Virginia-based training facility to a site on the eastern edge of Capitol Hill.

The Hamilton, a sprawling, two-story restaurant and live music venue owned by the Clyde’s Restaurant Group in the space previously occupied by the Borders Books and Music at 14th and F streets NW, received its official blessing today from District officials.