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This week on Seven Georgetowns, GM is going to discuss the northern tip of Georgetown, which he uncreatively has dubbed: Upper Georgetown.

It probably makes sense to first describe the official northern boundaries of Georgetown itself, to help explain Upper Georgetown’s boundary. Georgetown is the only neighborhood in DC that is actually defined by federal law. (The definition is necessary to describe where exactly the Old Georgetown Act applies). The northern boundary of Georgetown, according to that definition, runs east along Reservoir Rd. from just west of the hospital. Then it heads north down the center of 35th St. to Whitehaven Parkway. From there it runs east of Wisconsin and meanders through the woods until it hits Rock Creek.

Upper Georgetown’s southern border is Book Hill, which comes to a natural northern end at the library. The eastern border is a bit fuzzier. GM figures that at some point between 32nd and Wisconsin, R St. and S St. stop being Georgetown Heights and start being Upper Georgetown, but it’s not a bright line. Continue reading →

Photo by Ron Cogswell.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Why an empty house on R St. carries the Grant name.
• So Kevin Plank’s house on 34th wasn’t really a Pied a Terre, but it was actually a super secret hotel for really rich people.

1000 block of Cecil Place

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Photo by Ollie Thomson.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• REMINDER: Buy your ticket to the community party to celebrate MPD Officer Antonial Atkins on March 2nd.
• House where Jack met Jackie is already under contract.

Georgetown University

GM’s learned of a couple changes coming to M St. shops. In both cases, there’s a good deal of uncertainty, so how it’ll pan out is yet to be seen. But here you go:

The first involves Coach. GM has heard that the clerks are informing customers that the store is closing, so it cannot accept repair orders. No specific date was mentioned but it’s supposedly in “a couple months”.

The interesting thing about this closure is that the building is owned by Eastbanc. And way back in 2011, the company started seeking approval to build another version of Cady’s Alley behind the Coach building. At the time, Anthony Lanier mentioned to the ANC that Coach would be closing soon and then Eastbanc would take advantage of the opportunity to dramatically reconfigure the property and develop the alley behind it. And then nothing happened. Seven years later and Coach is still open. Well, open for now. Perhaps they exercised lease extension options and it’s only now that Eastbanc could end the lease. Either way, we’ll see if the developer (which is sitting on several vacant properties in Georgetown) wants to pursue its ambitious plans again. Continue reading →

Photo by Marc Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Rare Belgian brews at Sovereign this weekend.
• Smoky manhole on N St.

2700 block of P St.