It's a five-year commitment for 2,735 square feet of office space in a full-service building at 1250 Eye Street, which is five blocks from the association's current headquarters at 1020 16th Street. AAN will pay $37 per square foot in the first year of the lease, or $4.40 less than the average asking price for commercial real estate in the District, according to the "CoStar Office Market Watch" in this morning's Washington Post. The move is scheduled for July 1.

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Blood. Frogs. Vermin. Hail. Locusts. Slaying of your first editor. Whatever. If you publish a paper long enough, sooner or later you will be hit with a disaster. With eleven papers to worry about, the folks at New Times are always thinking about these things, and they have agreed to share their disaster-recovery plans with business-stream attendees on Saturday, June 18 at 4:45 pm.

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