Washington Business Journal by Karen Goff

After more than a decade of proposals, the District will make another go redeveloping the the historic Franklin School into an arts center.

D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development announced Wednesday the selection of a plan from Aspen Institute trustee Ann Friedman and Dantes Partners to turn the former school at 13th and K Streets NW into Planet Word, an interactive language arts museum and education space.