Inside the breakneck race to lease Washington apartments

The building's owners, William C. Smith & C0., acquired her as a way of attracting apartment-seekers to their building amid a sea of apartments within a few blocks in the NoMa neighborhood of Northeast D.C. "I was sitting at a cafe one day, and we saw a puppy come in and everyone just stopped in their tracks and came alive," said Holli Beckman, a ... (more)

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