Two Visits From President Obama


President Obama has favored the town of Lanham, MD with two visits in the last two weeks. The President has gone to talk about small businesses, and his plans to offer aid.

“Lanham represents communities across the country that are hard-hit by these tough economic times,” a White House spokesman wrote in an e-mail Friday afternoon. “These visits allow President Obama to discuss ways he’ll fight to strengthen our small businesses, invest in new green technologies and get more Americans back to work.”

On his first visit, Feb. 5, Obama went to Oasis Mechanical Contractors. He used the occasion to discuss his plans to push for a $5,000 tax credit for small businesses that hire new employees, and another initiative to help small firms refinance commercial real estate loans and mortgages.

Last week, he and Energy Secretary Steven Chu visitedthe International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers training center in Lanham and used the trip to promise roughly $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first new U.S. nuclear power units in more than 30 years. The unincorporated community of Lanham is part of Prince George’s County, dotted with housing developments and businesses, just off the Beltway and Route 50. The main business hub is the Washington Business Park, a series of office buildings at the corner of Martin Luther King Highway and Forbes Boulevard. Along the main drag of MLK Highway sit major offices of two grocery store chains — Shopper’s Food Warehouse and Safeway — but “for lease” signs stand in piles of snow on some of the surrounding office parks. Across the Beltway is the Metro’s Orange Line and an Amtrak stop at New Carrollton.



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