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Enterprise Zone

Businesses that are located within an Enterprise Zone or an area for which an application for designation as an Enterprise Zone has been submitted will be eligible for two preference points and a two percent price reduction for proposals and bids.

The following locations represent the economic development zones for the District of Columbia:

  • The Alabama Avenue economic development zone, which is bordered on the north by the east side of Fort Staton park, SE and Suitland Parkway, SE and the northern property line of St. Elizabeth Hospital and Alabama Avenue, SE; on the south by Southern Avenue, SE; on the northeast along Fort Baker to 28th Street, SE; south on 28th Street to Denver Street, SE; south on Denver Street, SE, to Naylor Road, SE; southeast on Naylor Road, SE to Southern Avenue, SE; and on the west by South Capital Street, SE, as designated in Mayor's Order 86-193, dated October 27, 1986 (33 DCR 7798);
  • the DC Village economic development zone, which is bordered by I-95 on the west and south; Martin Luther King Jr Avenue, SW on the east; and Laboratory Road, SW on the north, as designated in Mayor's order 86-193, dated October 27, 1986 (33 DCR 7798);
  • the Anacostia economic development zone, which is bordered from the west span of the 11th Street Bridge; south to Martin Luther King Jr Avenue, SE and S Street, SE; east on S Street, SE to Naylor Road, SE; south to Altamont Place, SE; south to Good Hope Road, SE; south along the west boundary of Fort Stanton Park to Suitland Parkway, SE; crossing Suitland Parkway, SE at Robinson Place, SE; northwest along the north property line of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital that includes approximately 40 acres adjacent TO Barry Farms, including the area around the Point and adjacent to the I-295 Expressway; from the south property line to the west property line of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital; east to Milwaukee Place SE; southeast to Martin Luther King Jr Avenue, SE; south to Portland Street, SE; west to South Capitol Street, SE; north to Anacostia Drive, SE; and east to the western span of the 11th Street Bridge.