The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• No matter how many articles are written debunking the myth, people hold true to their steadfast belief that rich Georgetown residents blocked the creation of a metro stop in the neighborhood.
• GM will take this opportunity to shamelessly link to his appearance on Kojo to discuss this very topic.

A new farmers market is coming to Volta Park Fridays starting this week. The market will take place from 3pm to 6pm and will last until December 17th.

This will be the fourth farmers market to make a go of it in Georgetown in the recent past. The Rose Park market has been going on for quite a while on Thursday Wednesday nights, and has grown to a robust size in the last several years in particular. The Glover Park-Burleith market ran at Hardy for years (which is technically in Georgetown, not Glover Park or Burleith), but as far as GM understands, it has stopped running permanently. Finally there has been a farmers market at Georgetown University, but it has not started up again yet since covid shut the campus down.

Volta Park generally has good foot traffic, particularly from the tennis and dog sets. So hopefully it will also thrive. Come on out Friday night to check it out!

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The ANC resolved to oppose the sidewalk widening and porous pavement.
• Some glimmers of hope for the potential of an eventual Georgetown Metro station.

The shop’s specialty will be small, beautifully crafted bonbons.

Hopefully this shop will break the string of relatively short-lived sweet shops that have occupied this space. After Originals closed around 2010, a froyo shop opened (which cycled through a couple names). After it closed a few years later, Beard Papa’s (a creampuff shop) opened. It too only lasted a few years. Then most recently the Cookie Dough Jar shop opened and closed after a few years.

Bonne chance!

Good morning Georgetown! Sorry for the long August break! Here are some of the stories GM missed:

• The DC council budgeted $10 million to buy the former Key Bridge Exxon property, which would enable it to be used as an electric car charging or a gondola/Metro station. But Rosslyn’s still not terribly interested in a gondola.
• New plan for the former Latham hotel property.
• Jamestown is converting large parts of the former Georgetown mall to residential.

GM is continuing to re-run his Seven Georgetowns series. Today, it’s lower Georgetown:

This week for GM’s series “Seven Georgetowns” GM is exploring the most overlooked corner of Georgetown: lower Georgetown.

As a quick reminder, this series is about demonstrating how Georgetown is really made up of seven distinct sub-neighborhoods that each could stand on their own as a neighborhood even if they weren’t surrounded by the other six sevenths of Georgetown.

When GM says that lower Georgetown is overlooked, what he means is that to people who live north of M St., it is a bit of a mystery. We know people live there, but they seem separate and apart from the rest of Georgetown. This, in fact, is a complaint GM has heard multiple times from residents of lower Georgetown.

And to be fair, it really is quite different from the rest of Georgetown. While there are a small handful of small rowhouses–which look much like small rowhouses north of M St.–the vast majority of households south of M St. are in apartment buildings. These range from modestly priced to some of the most expensive properties in DC.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The seemingly endless construction at K and Wisconsin is about keeping our rivers clean.
• Programming note: After today, GM is going to sign off for an August break. See you in September!