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Photo by Matt Kiefer.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU to welcome back as many as 2,000 students this fall.
• John Rosselli antiques closed sadly. It was one of the more attractive storefronts in town.

Georgetown Waterfront Park

DC’s response to the need to provide safer walking and biking space in light of the COVID crisis has been absolutely anemic. When other cities from Paris to Oakland have taken dramatic action to restrict automobile traffic on streets to let humans not in cars more safely use them, DC has done little. It made the weekend Beech Dr. closures permanent (for now), lowered the speed limit (with no policies that will actually increase observation of it), and rolled out a weak “slow streets” initiative.

Other than the speed limit change on most roads (it’s now 20 mph not 25 mph) none of these have even touched Georgetown. But there’s a chance the last one will. It’s better than nothing, but it’s still not great. Continue reading →

Photo by Matt Kieffer.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Harper Macaw is another shop that appears to have closed (to add to GM’s list from last week)
• Apparent water main break at GU requires the arrival of a massive mobile a/c unit.

3200 block of N St.

As GM mentioned in the morning links yesterday, America Eats Tavern is closing permanently. This adds yet another prominent name to a sadly increasing list of big shops and restaurants that simply aren’t coming back. But if you’ve lost track of which shops that is, Jamie Scott from the BID gave a useful presentation to the ANC Monday night summarizing them.

So far the shops and restaurants that are totally done include (at least):

• America Eats Tavern
• Brooks Brothers (part of a national downsizing)
• Camper (lease expired)
• Cherub Antiques
• Don Lobo’s
• Johnny Rockets (lease expired)
• Le Pain Quotidian (corporate bankruptcy, with this location on the list of those not to be reopened)
• Lucky Brand
• Margaux (lease expired)
• Paul Bakery (national downsizing)
• Pete’s Coffee (national downsizing)
• Roots (bankruptcy)
• Starbucks (national downsizing)
• Uprising Yoga Center
• Washington Sports Club (regional downsizing)

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Photo by Angela N.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• How Pinto won, and what she plans to do now.
• Pinto actually gave her first official ANC visit to the Georgetown ANC Monday night and announce that Sherri Kimbel will remain on as constituent services director for the time being.

Potomac River (not recently, obviously)

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM is checking out a photo awfully similar to the one from a few weeks back. Like that photo, it is from the summer of 1931 and of southwest Georgetown, but the camera was pointed more northward for today’s photo. For that reason it captured way more of neighborhood.

Go ahead and click on the photo above to see it in its full resolution glory. Here are some great details:

You can get a great view of the large Dempsey’s Boathouse that once stood between the Washington Canoe Club and the Aqueduct Bridge:

And upstream you can see a bunch more long-gone boathouses, including what looks like a full residential house on the left!:

To the west of the university there used to be a rambling collection of small farm houses:

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Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• America Eats Tavern is closing permanently.
• The BID is maintaining a list of what stores and restaurants *are* open.