[3][4][5] Throughout the 1970s, Eastern Wind: The Asian-American Community Newsletter of Washington, D.C. published editorials and opinions reacting to the changing neighborhood.

[6] In the early 1980s, the D.C. government built a new convention center between 9th and 11th streets, displacing Chinese residents living in the area.

[3] In 1982, the city built the Wah Luck House apartments at 6th and H Streets, NW, to accommodate the displaced residents.

"It featured traditional lion and dragon dances, firecrackers, beauty pageant winners and community groups".

[21][22] Two-year-old Allan Weaver attended the parade and he approached police officer Maurice Cullinane to ask if he was a US Marine.

The image was printed in many publications and it also appeared on the back cover of Life (magazine) and it won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

Approximately half of Chinatown's residents live in the Wah Luck House, which has 153 units of apartment complexes.

[27] After the deadly 1968 riots following the April assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many Chinese people sought a more economically stable and safe environment and moved out of Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown, relocating to suburban neighborhoods in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland.

[29] North Potomac, Maryland, is 18.4% Chinese American, the highest of any community within the Washington metropolitan area.

In Virginia, sizable Chinese American communities are located in Centreville, Chantilly, and Floris, south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

[26][30] Along with the development of the Verizon Center, historic buildings, mainly along the west side of 7th Street, were renovated and tenanted, primarily with nationally known brand shops and dining establishments.

Within a short time, a significant mixed-use office-residential-retail development on the southeast corner of 7th and H streets commenced construction.

[14][31] Chinatown has become home to many high-growth technology companies, such as Blackboard, Blue State Digital, LivingSocial, and The Knowland Group.

One of the restaurants, Wok & Roll, occupies what was once the Mary E. Surratt Boarding House — the meeting place for John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

The Washington DC Chinatown Community Cultural Center offers numerous activities, classes and services.

[36] The Gallery Place—Chinatown Washington Metro station (on the Red, Green, and Yellow Lines), which opened in 1976, serves the neighborhood.

[38] The chairperson of the Chinatown Development Corporation, Alfred Liu, designed the Friendship Archway, the community's paifang, which was commissioned by the District of Columbia Government.