The Georgetown Metropolitan

Last week the Old Georgetown Board approved the design of a proposed hotel to be built at 3401 Water St. The plans shifted the massing of the building around from earlier designs but will still be a noticeable addition to the Georgetown “skyline”.

As described in earlier reporting, the plan calls to preserve the existing two-story building, which currently contains the Berliner beer hall and a Go Puff distribution hub. Three to five stories (plus a penthouse) of new construction will be added on top. The higher stories will be on the west and northern portions of the building, with the lower roofs on the east and south sides.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Ghost kitchen proposed for upper Wisconsin Ave.
• Canal boat tours back!

After a string of terrible scenes plaguing Wisconsin Ave., it’s nice to be pleasantly surprised. Yesterday morning GM stumbled upon this wild turkey sauntering up Wisconsin Ave. It crossed the street at the foot of Book Hill and headed further north from there. GM hopes it made its way to Rock Creek.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Details on the House Tour.
• Mapping women’s history.

Last week GU re-instituted an indoor mask mandate in response to a spike in Covid cases. And yesterday, the school announced 169 positive cases on campus, the most since early February. And more alarming, the school reporting a sharp uptick in positivity rates for the tests:

Should we look at GU (and other DC college campuses) as the canary in the coal mine of yet another surge of cases?

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Not Georgetown news, but something GM unfortunately discovered too late yesterday: Ft. Totten dump is closed for six months. You have to go to a different site (that is not open as much) in the meantime.
• GU Covid cases spiking badly (more on this later).

If you’re looking to look shave off some years from your face on the way home from Safeway, your opportunity is nigh. A storefront botox clinic is coming to the Wisconsin Ave. building.

The company is called Skin Spirit and it has locations across the US. It offers a variety of ways to artificially delay your inevitable descent into old age. If pumping your face with botulism doesn’t appeal to you, they’ll also flash your face with lasers and/or inject it with acid. And they’ll do whatever this is to your arm:

The clinic is supposed to open sometime this spring. Try to keep the wrinkles at bay in the meantime.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice roundup of recent business openings and closing.
• 18 hours at Georgetown’s college radio station, a station you can’t hear with your radio.

Good morning Georgetown:

• Georgetown University reinstitutes an indoor mask mandate.
• Israeli streetfood restaurant, Shouk, is going to open a Georgetown location.