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Popular 'can-do' D.C. city administrator dies from COVID-19 complicationsPeers reflect on the life of Allen Lew, a popular city administrator in the District. (Photo courtesy:{&nbsp;} {&nbsp;}Lateef Mangum)Allen Lew was known as the “can-do” guy in the D.C. government.&nbsp;He came to D.C. to oversee the construction of the Washington Convention Center and D.C. mayors kept finding more and more for him to do.Read MoreOriginally from New York where he worked on numerous public development projects, he brought that know-how to D.C., also overseeing construction of Nat’s Park, firehouses, rec centers, and some 30 D.C. schools.Warren Graves, Lew’s deputy for many D.C. projects, said he last spoke with Lew in late April.“He called me and told me that his mother has passed away from the coronavirus and that he had tested positive,” Graves said.Not hearing again from Lew, Graves said he called Lew’s wife who said he was on a ventilator.&nbsp;He never made it off.Lew died yesterday in New York, his hometown, where he had returned recently to become vice-chancellor at CUNY—City University of New York.His last job in the D.C. government was four years as then-Mayor Vincent Gray’s City Administrator.&nbsp;Gray expressed sorrow about Lew’s death Wednesday, saying he was the best.“If Allen told me he could get it done, it was going to get done,” Gray said.Graves said he regrets that while Lew was on the ventilator, he never learned that he had a grandchild.Lew, an architect by training, headed the Washington Architectural Foundation before his move to New York last December.He was 69.

Popular 'can-do' D.C. city administrator dies from COVID-19 complicationsPeers reflect on the life of Allen Lew, a popular city administrator in the District. (Photo courtesy:{&nbsp;} {&nbsp;}Lateef Mangum)Allen Lew was known as the “can-do” guy in the D.C. government.&nbsp;He came to D.C. to oversee the construction of the Washington Convention Center and D.C. mayors kept finding more and more for him to do.Read MoreOriginally from New York where he worked on numerous public development projects, he brought that know-how to D.C., also overseeing construction of Nat’s Park, firehouses, rec...

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