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Scheele’s Market Building for Sale

Scheele's Market Building For Sale

Carol Joynt alerts GM to the unfortunate news that the building that houses Scheele’s Market at 29th and Dumbarton is up for sale. A sale could lead to the closing of the beloved corner store. Find out more after the jump:

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What Georgetown Bars Might Be Open Late

As the Washington Post reports, 213 venues have applied to the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration to stay open late on Inauguration weekend. Apparently a large number of those are in Ward 2. As reported on this blog, any bar in Georgetown with a voluntary agreement was not able to apply to ABRA to stay open late since neither the ANC nor CAG gave their consent to amend the VAs. When reporting this, GM was surprised to find out there were any Georgetown bars without a voluntary agreement. Well a review of ABRA records shows that there are lotsof bars in Georgetown without VAs, many of which are the type of place that would apply to stay open late and the type of place that a lot of residents really wish wouldn’t. Full list after the jump:

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Evermay Update

Everymay

No, GM doesn’t haven’t any info about a certain possible new owner, but another piece of information may have slipped by unnoticed. Owner Harry Belin apparently withdrew his appeal to the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA). It’s not clear whether this move is a predicate to a sale, but it seems clear now that regardless of who owns it, Evermay isn’t going to be hosting any weddings for a long time.

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Oprah – Ever May She Be Rich Enough to Buy a $50 Million Pied-a-Terre

The rumor was first spread by the apocrypha-journalists at the New York Post’s Page Six: Oprah Winfrey was looking at real estate in DC to be near her BFF Barak Obama and she was looking at a $50 million dollar mansion in Georgetown. Well there’s only one $50 million mansion for sale in Georgetown and it’s the estate known as “Evermay” at 1623 28th St.  Everymay is the crown jewel of Georgetown’s family-owned large estates (Dumbarton Oaks is probably the crowniest of crown jewels of Georgetown, but it’s owned by Harvard).

After the jump: Evermay, Halcyon, and Graham, oh my…

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