GM was out on M St last weekend walking over to the Georgetown Running Company to pick out some new running shoes when he came across the garish billboard seen above. It’s been applied to the windows of the currently vacant space between North Face and the (also vacant) Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory. The building is [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Old Georgetown Board’
December 16, 2009
Guess Who’s One Year Old?: The Third Most Popular Post
This week, in celebration of turning one year old, the Georgetown Metropolitan is looking back at the five most popular posts from its first year. Today we head back to February 3rd for The Approved Apple Designs. This was a post from the middle of the Apple Store saga. As you can see below, it captured [...]
November 12, 2009
The Morning Metropolitan
Georgetown homes by -marten- Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest: Some store named “Anthony” is opening soon on Wisconsin Ave. just above R St. It appears to be a clothing boutique but GM couldn’t confirm that. Last month the Old Georgetown Board rejected a design put forward by Ristorante Piccolo to add a roof deck. [...]
October 7, 2009
To the Georgetown Metropolitan,
GM occasionally receives an email inquiring about a particular building (e.g. “what’s going on with that construction?”). For instance yesterday he received this note: I don’t know if you have ever noticed the building that stands on the SE corner of M and 31st Streets…It’s currently occupied by German television Channel 2, I believe. Anyway it is under scaffolding [...]
June 24, 2009
OGB Applications Suggest Uptick in Activity
While GM was digging into the minutes of the Old Georgetown Board the other day, he started charting the board’s activity over the last several years. When you gather that data, it gives a picture of how commercial and residential construction has fluctuated over that time period. Plotting it all out shows that this activity [...]
June 23, 2009
Old Georgetown Board Approves Parking Pad Over ANC and Neighbor Objection
As GM discussed recently, the owners of 3020 Cambridge Place came before the ANC and the Old Georgetown Board twice recently to request the installation of a parking pad on their property adjoining the alley behind their house. In May, the owners (who apparently don’t actually live there) requested approval to construct the parking pad. [...]
March 27, 2009
Mad Butcher Still in the Cards?
GM was so wrapped up in Apple store talk, that he didn’t get very deep into the Old Georgetown Board agenda from March, but sitting in there is some potentially bad news: Jonathan Umbel’s plan to bring a butcher to Georgetown seems to have stalled.
March 5, 2009
Quick Note to Journalists Covering the Apple Store:
What was approved by the Old Georgetown Board was what’s known as a “design concept“. It’s not the final design. They’ll have to go back through the ANC and the OGB to get the permit for the finalized plans. The designs won’t change that much, but you should be clear that this is by no [...]
March 5, 2009
Apple Store Design Finally Approved
As described the other day, the ANC approved the most recent design tweak by Apple for its proposed Wisconsin Ave. store. The Post is reporting that the Old Georgetown Board finally approved the design. By the way, GM really wanted to be the first to break this, but the staff of the Commission of Fine [...]
February 5, 2009
Oh, Never Mind
The Post is reporting that the Old Georgetown Board rejected Apple’s most recent design concept. Apparently they don’t read a certain neighborhood blog that predicted: The design will be heard before the Old Georgetown Board on Thursday where it will probably be approved. No timetable for construction has been set (they haven’t even knocked down [...]
