Protest at Gtown Chipotle by SEIU International.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Bourbon Steak chef calling it quits.
- Interview with the ANC’s new student commissioner.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Morning Metropolitan
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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 Ralls Collection, and [blush] Scheele’s Market).
So here you go:
| Safeway | Supermarket |
| Verizon | Electronics |
| Acqua Nails | Salon |
| Unleashed | Pets |
| Café Divan | Restaurant |
| Animal Hospital | Pets |
| Talio Hair | Salon |
| First Cash Pawnbroker | Pawn |
| Duron | Paint |
| Einstein Bagels | Restaurant |
| Starbucks | Restaurant |
| Ledos | Restaurant |
| Baytok | Clothing |
| Everards | Clothing |
| Sky Shoes | Clothing |
| R&G Pop Up Shop | Antiques |
| Harmony Salon | Clothing |
| Bistrot Lepic | Restaurant |
| P.O. Boxes Etc. | |
| Carine’s Bridal | Clothing |
| H.A. Gill Realtors | Realtor |
| ReMax | Realtor |
| Miller & Arney | Antiques |
| Adams Bank | Bank |
| HSBC | Bank |
| Casbah Café | Restaurant Continue reading |
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo from Key Bridge by Brownpau.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Don’t forget tonight’s special ANC meeting to discuss GU’s Ten Year Plan.
- Speaking of which, friend of GM, Ken Archer, made his case against GU’s proposal.
- And here’s a contrary argument.
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Petco Repeating CVS’s Corrections
In November, GM lamented that Petco’s new Unleashed store underneath the Safeway was making a lot of the same mistakes that CVS used to make in terms of blocking up the street windows. Well, not that GM thinks he had anything to do with it, but Petco has recently taken down the walls blocking the window, as you can see above.
This follows CVS’s own move last spring to open up the view into their Georgetown stores. These moves dramatically improve the feel of the sidewalk. Also, GM speculates that it makes it a lot more likely that people will come in off the street when they can actually see into the store from the outside.
So huzzah to Petco for seeing the light.
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Photo by Bigbirdz.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Mike Grass digs up the time when Mike Tyson almost killed someone at Au Pied de Cochon.
- GM never thought the Dixie in Dixie Liqours was “Dixie” like “look away Dixie land”. But the Washington Post finds that it’s the only Dixie-named store in the District and sees it as a lingering marker of southern influences waned.
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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 Wisconsin. Last year, working from an established list GM could take the time to expand the scope a little more and make sure to get all the stores on Wisconsin and M as well as those just off. Well this year GM went whole hog. He gathered a list of every single establishment in Georgetown. From Le Petite Corner Store to Jean Pierre to Tony and Joes to Jack’s Boathouse.
And what’s the grand total? (drum role) 527. That adds exactly 100 stores over last year’s tally (that doesn’t mean there are 100 new stores, of course, it just means GM counted 100 more. Some are new, some were just off GM’s scope last year).
Here’s how those numbers break down:
Independents Vs. Chains:
GM first started surveying stores in Georgetown to get a sense of just how many stores are independent and how many are chains. The first set of numbers surprised GM. Of the establishments on Wisconsin and M, 70% were independent. Last year’s survey found almost identical results.
As of today and including all establishments, the number is a tad higher: 73%. That makes sense, since a lot of the new stores that GM captured are off of the main drag and thus more likely to be independent.
Chains represent 26% of establishments. The last percentage or so are regional chains (e.g. Five Guys).
As he’s done in the past, this year GM again took at look at how those percentages look like when one considers only stores within one block of Wisconsin and M. Not surprisingly, the chain percentage goes up. However, as in past years, they still can’t crack 50%. Right now, chains make up only 41% of establishments within one block of M and Wisconsin. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Been by Morso recently? It sure seems like they left town. They’ve got notes up on both doors (Morso and Morso Express) talking about being closed for “building repairs”. But mail is piling up and, more daming, there’s a note on one door letting the owners know that someone’s trying to serve them with some legal documents. GM doubts they’ll reopen.
- Isn’t $799k way too much for a one bedroom house?
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