F.C.’s ‘Watch Night’ Downtown Saturday (See Pages 10-11) December 29, 2022 January 04, 2023
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Falls Church News-Press
As mild temperatures are promised for the onset of the New Year at this Saturday night’s Watch Night festivities in downtown Falls Church, expectations for the 2023 year remain ones of cautious optimism. For the City of Falls Church, rising residential real estate values and a pause in the receipts of substantial new revenues from the numerous large scale mixed use projects now underway at the West End and the center of the Little City will mean that citizens will not feel significant tax relief at the local level this year. That is, not this year, but as City Manager Wyatt Shields has promised, surely by next year, when another significant cut in the tax rate, of the type that dropped the rate from $1.3555 (per $100 of assessed valuation) two years ago to $1.23 last
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LONG-TIME CITY OF FALLS CHURCH resident and local businessman Mike Curtin shown with one of the new stainless steel cookers installed at the new D.C. Central Kitchen location that he, as the kitchen’s executive director, secured in Southwest D.C. in 2022. His work earned him the honor as 2022’s Non-Profit CEO of the Year by the Washington Business Journal. ( Photo: Falls Church News-Press)
F.C.’s Curtin Regional Non-Profit CEO of Year
by Kylee Toland
Falls Church News-Press
For almost 34 years, DC Central Kitchen (DCCK) has been a “nationally recognized” community kitchen that recycles and serves food around the nation’s capital for those who are homeless and/or underserved. Recently, the kitchen’s CEO and Falls Church resident since 1994
Mike Curtin was named “D.C’s Non-profit CEO of the Year” by the Washington Business Journal, partly due to the relocation of DC Central Kitchen on the banks of the Anacostia River. When first walking into the newly-built, two-floor setup of DC Central Kitchen on First Street Southwest in D.C., it’s hard to imagine that it was once located in a
“decaying” basement of the Federal City Shelter. What once started in a “decrepit,” windowless 5,000 square-footbasement has transformed into a 36,000-square-foot headquarters full of windows for employees, volunteers and visitors to interact with one another in various ways. The new space will also incorporate a training kitchen for the organiza-
tion’s culinary program, classrooms for teaching and meetings, and office space for those who work for the kitchen from a media/business standpoint. Curtin, who has been in the restaurant business in D.C. “for a long time,” as well as owning a restaurant in Falls Church — the Broad Street
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