Unity at Unity Park -- maybe

It appeared the three-year-old fight that pitted some established Latino businesses against illegal Latino vendors in Adams Morgan’s Unity Park was coming to an amicable end. Roxana Olivas, executive director of the city’s Office of Latino Affairs, had spent months negotiating with all parties. “I’m very content that OLA, working since January, was able to help these individuals while taking into consideration the brick-and-mortar businesses,” Olivas told me.

The problems at Unity Park began when, after receiving complaints about people illegally selling food near Sacred Heart Church off 16th Street Northwest, George Escobar, then deputy director of OLA, put those vendors at a site on Columbia Road and Euclid Street NW.