The State of Georgetown: Preview

Every year GM performs a census of sorts of all the stores and restaurants in Georgetown. It was originally inspired as a way to rebut the accusation that Georgetown is mostly full of chain stores (it isn’t). But GM has continued to build his database each year, adding stores he missed the previous year.

GM has performed his review for 2013. However, he still has to do some error-checking and other edits before diving in with a full blown review of the state of Georgetown.

That said, today he’s offering a quick preview of the data: what opened and what closed?

Between the 2012 survey (which was done in February 2012) and this year’s survey (which was done last weekend) there were 56 store closings, 43 store openings, and 7 stores moving locations within Georgetown.

That’s a drop in closings from last year’s (probably record) high of 79 closings. Last year’s number was mostly so high because the mall was getting cleared out. This year’s number is also inflated a bit by the 13 mall stores that were still around last year. Oddly, in 2012 there were also 43 openings, just like this year.

On the bright side, here are the 43 openings:

Here are all the closings: