Downtown D.C. is known as a place to work, not live or hang out. In a new ranking of downtown vitality scores, D.C. ranks almost last. But the city is trying to change that. Tristan Navera from the Washington Biz Journal explains how.

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Can We Make Downtown D.C. More "Livable"?