Category Archives: Stores of Georgetown
What Does Georgetown Taste Like?
A few more data points from GM’s annual survey of Georgetown stores: what type of restaurants are here? Here’s the answer: Last year “American” and Italian led the pack, but this year GM changed up the classification scheme. Pizza places … Continue reading
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Where All the Closings and Openings Were
For those that are more visually minded, here’s where all the openings (green), closings (red), and intra-Georgetown moves (blue) happened last year.
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The State of Georgetown 2012
As discussed a few times over the last couple days, GM recently finished his annual survey of stores in Georgetown (again, just for reference sake, “stores” in this context means stores, restaurants, salons, etc.; basically any commercial space except pure … Continue reading
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The State of Georgetown 2012: Openings and Closings
It’s that time of year again when GM goes around counting up all the stores in Georgetown and determining what closed, what opened, and what’s still around. While GM is still doing some slicing and dicing to give you a … Continue reading
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Georgetown Experiences a Net Loss in Stores for 2011
This is the time of the year when GM goes out and does an audit on all the stores in Georgetown. He walks up and down all the streets and notes whether a store is still open, or if it … Continue reading
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What Would Be Your Heartbreaker?
Stores close in Georgetown all the time. When you have a retail district of over 500 stores and restaurants, even a very low failure rate would still result in a dozen or so closings a year. But GM has noticed … Continue reading
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All the Stores in Georgetown – 2011
Tuesday, GM reported on his annual survey of stores in Georgetown. Today, he thought people might be interested in actually seeing that list of 527 stores (actually, make that 530, since GM realized he left out Village Hair Design, the … Continue reading
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The State of Georgetown 2011
Photo by twofivesevenzero. Every January, GM walks up and down the streets of Georgetown updating his database of the stores of Georgetown. He started this two years ago by simply scribbling down on a notepad every establishment on M and … Continue reading
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All the Closings and Openings from 2009
As a follow up to Tuesday’s survey of Georgetown shops, GM wanted to publish a complete list of all the stores and restaurants that closed and opened in Georgetown in 2009: The dearly departed: Curry Club Linen Press District Fine … Continue reading
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The State of Georgetown: 2010
In one of his earliest posts, GM documented all the stores in Georgetown that are on M St., Wisconsin Ave., or just off these two corridors. The study was inspired by an article by the great Marc Fisher lamenting the … Continue reading
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