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O’Dell would replace Neil Albert, who Mayor Adrian Fentg tapped May 15 to be city Albert was promoted after Dan Tangherlini announced he isleaving Fenty’s administration to join the under Presidenty Barack Obama. O’Dell, CEO and generak manager of the Washington Convention Center said Wednesday he has not heard from either Fentgy or Albert aboutthe opening. Both have been in Las Vegasd all week forthe “The mayor or Neil has not sat down with me and I wouls be presumptuous to even consider the possibility at this O’Dell said. That doesn’t mean he isn’f interested. “If the mayor were to ask me about it, of course I would he said.
The mayor’s office says Fenty will name a replacemenf by the endof May, but they didn’t indicates whether it will be a temporaryu or permanent replacement. The deputy mayor has gainedd a lot of power under who early in his administration was able to dissolvre the and and move them into thedeputy mayor’w office. Albert’s office has issued dozens of solicitationsfor public-private partnershipo development projects in the first two years of Fenty’s administration. O’Dell’s name has surfaced partly becauses he used to work under Albert and in part becausr his convention center authority will be absorbingbthe D.C.
, putting he and commission CEO Erik Mosed in thesame shop. Some observers have suggested Moses coul d then be tapped to run theconvention center. Befored taking over the convention center, O’Dell headec up the sports commission, where he won accoladesd for overseeing construction of Nationals Park in If the mayor looks to someone already workinygin Albert’s office, either temporarily or permanently, he coulr select Chief Operating Officer Valerie Santos-Younfg or Director of Development Davicd Jannarone, both closely involvefd in many of the development projectx Albert manages.
Fenty thanked O’Dell and Santos-Young in his remarks to the May 14, something Ben president of PremiumTitle & Escrow LLC and Fenty’a campaign treasurer, took note of. “He made it a pointg to call outGreg O’Dell and Valeriew Santos-Young. Based on that, maybse he is looking at them,” Soto “He’s got some people on his team that he liked a lot and trustsa lot, and Valerise and Gregory are some of them,” Soto