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2700 block of P St.

The ANC would typically be taking the summer off, but they announced a special meeting for August 9th at 5:00 pm. The commission hasn’t released an agenda for the meeting, but GM believes the purpose of the meeting is for the body to vote on one or more projects that need input before the next scheduled meeting in September.

Separately, the ANC has formed a new ad hoc committee to address concerns over the Hyde-Addison construction. They wrote:

On July 20th ANC Commissioner Rick Murphy convened a working group to proactively deal with the Hyde-Addison School Construction Project. ANC Commissioner Murphy included Community leaders; Hazel Denton, Leslie Maysak and Constance Chatfield-Taylor. ANC Commissioner Murphy brought in DCPS/DGS representatives and the MCN General Contractor. This robust meeting achieved substantive and concrete results which will allow for an efficient and commonsense approach to the construction process. This ongoing working group is committed to providing the public with transparency, real time answers and accountability.

The ANC clearly doesn’t know how to take a summer break.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• A little bit more on that Kendrick Lamar Pop Up shop.
• Postmodern Foods goes Post-Postmodern.

Potomac River

This week for Now and a Long Time Ago, GM returns to the fantastic Wymer’s collection and picks a photo of the old Georgetown waterfront. It was taken from the banks of the Potomac slightly down river, across from where the Watergate is now.

While there are a bunch of buildings along the Georgetown waterfront in the picture, the one with two tall smokestacks stands out. That’s the Capital Traction Powerhouse. It truly was a marvelous building and it’s a shame they tore it down in 1968: Continue reading →

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• An Everything Bagel donut sounds terrible.
• Great story of a local DC kid making it at Georgetown University.

3400 block of P St.

As part of his annual store survey, GM always likes to look just at restaurants and see how much variety of styles there is. Above are the results for this year.

There’s not too much change since last year. Sweets keeps the lead this year with 18 (one more than last year). American still trails at 17. For an overall picture, GM puts all Asian cuisine into one category so to better represent the prevalence of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Amazon locker now available at the P St. 7-11.
• Speaking of east Georgetown, there will be some Hollywood film crews using the old Graham house at 30th and R St. later this week. Watch out for a bunch of no parking signs.

3400 block of Water St.