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Dawn Price Baby, a provider of fancy baby and toddler goods, is closing this month. The store was first opened on Capitol Hill in 2004. It later expanded to Georgetown by purchasing the former K Baby store in 2007. It later added locations in Vienna and Reston.

The store attributed the decision to close to the fact some of the leases were expiring. Dawn Price, the store’s owner announced the decision on the store’s website:

I wanted to say thank you for 15 wonderful years and that the time has come for us to say good bye. Our store leases have come up for renewal and we have decided to start a new chapter. Dawn Price Baby has been one of the most rewarding, challenging and exciting times of my life.

So, thank you to all who have grown and supported us from the initial concept in Capitol Hill to the opening of Georgetown and finally to the two Virginia locations. Your love, support, involvement and input helped us grow and succeed in being the best version of ourselves.

I also wanted to thank all of the staff that have given their time and effort over the years in helping achieve the goals we set. Without you, it could not have been possible.

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Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Glow art will be given away on January 6th.
• GM missed this, days before Christmas MPD arrested a man suspected of being a prolific package thief. The fact he had 13 packages on him at the time was a strong hint. MPD later delivered the packages.

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The first ANC meeting of the year is tonight. And it will be the first to feature the five new members of the commission. It will be at the normal time and place: 6:30 at Georgetown Visitation.

A couple of topics could be of interest during the meeting. First of all, the commission will be selecting its new officers. Joe Gibbons served as chair during the last term, but GM hears he will be turning over the gavel to Rick Murphy. Other changes could be in store as well.

Finally, on a totally different front, the ANC will consider that city’s proposal to ban right turns on red off 29th St. at M St. GM personally supports this change (and would frankly like to see right on reds banned throughout DC), but there are always complaints about how this will affect driver movement. We will likely hear both sides tonight.

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Photo by Butch.

Good morning Georgetown, and happy new year! Here’s some of the news GM missed over the holidays:

• J. Paul’s is now closed. Sadly the beautiful huge bar has already been removed, so any future restaurant there won’t have it.
• The BID lost its transportation director, Will Handsfield, who is taking a job with the city running the bicycle program. He will leave big shoes to fill.
• Patagonia has moved to M St. The future of the old location on Wisconsin Ave. hasn’t been announced yet.
• The Wawa opened.
• Anything else?

GM’s knocking off for the holidays. Have a merry happy! And see you in 2019!

3200 block of M St.

Exactly ten years ago today, the modern Georgetown Metropolitan was born. And 6,460 posts later, it churns on. And the nearly 7,000 comments received suggests it has reached an audience, for good or ill.

GM started the Georgetown Metropolitan as an outlet for all the information he found himself gathering, either simply from walking around or from digging into issues that interested him. And one of the central goals of the website was to present the radical notion that Georgetown was a neighborhood of more than chain stores or filthy rich doyennes. That is was not just the loudest nimby voices, nor the most rote clichés. And while surely he hasn’t lived up to that fully, he has made his best stab at it.

Fatherhood and the simple ever increasing complication of daily life has meant fewer longform articles or coverage of late ANC meetings. But GM hopes that he has continued to provide a service to the neighborhood. It has been a project of love, love for this beautiful neighborhood, its fascinating inhabitants, and the community we build.

GM can’t guarantee another ten years. But he honestly thought fatherhood was going to end his ability to continue, and yet it didn’t. So who knows?

Thank you for reading.

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The pro-gondola coalition.
• The Peabody Room now has a stained glass window from the Peck Memorial Presbyterian Chapel that once stood at Pennsylvania and M.

Tudor Place