The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Sandlot added a plant-based burger truck.
• Pro-insurrection propaganda posters seen around the neighborhood.

A resident on P St. is apparently fed up with flower thieves and has the receipts.

At least that’s what appears to be the case based upon an amusing poster that was tied to a tree on the street. It reads:

When you were
stealing those
flowers,
Did you notice our
doorbell camera?

[winking emoji]

What to do with
the footage??

Us: [angry emoji][devil emoji]
You: [sweating emoji][sad emoji]

GM’s had his experience having things stolen from his porch and catching the thief in the act on camera. It even once made the New York Times. So he can sympathize with the flower-less resident. Posting the footage probably won’t lead to anyone getting caught, or even somewhat shamed. But you never know. Maybe it will also make its way to national news.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Sovereign reopens this Wednesday.
• Eastbanc bring Aerie and Everlane to M St. later this year. (Both are women’s clothing stores)

Georgetowners no longer must suffer the pain of not having a lobster roll shack in their neighborhood: Masons Famous Lobster Rolls have opened.

The shop takes over 1078 Wisconsin Ave., which was previously occupied by Paul Bakery. That store closed early in the pandemic as part of a worldwide contraction.

From 2013 until last year, Luke’s Lobsters offered a buttery taste of Maine on Potomac St. The store was part of a nationwide chain, but it actually had a tie to the neighborhood. The eponymous Luke is a 2007 GU grad (and was a classmate with the founders of Sweetgreen.) GM was pretty bummed when it closed, as it was a nice little shop that catered to locals as much as tourists.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• More on the new canal boat.
• Descendants of the enslaved-people owned by GU are participating in an archeological dig of the Jesuit’s former plantation.

After years of effort and fundraising, the canal boat has returned to the canal. It arrived Sunday morning after a trip down the canal from Fletcher’s, where it was lowered into position over the weekend.

The boat cost $1.5 million, which was paid for from government money and private donations. It is the culmination of the major repair work that the canal has undergone since the creation of Georgetown Heritage in 2015. The creation of Georgetown Heritage–a charitable organization to preserve and protect the canal through Georgetown–was itself the product of the Georgetown 2028 project way back in 2013.

The hope at the beginning was that we would get to this point much faster. But it became immediately clear that immediate and extensive repair work was necessary before a boat like this could be returned. Most pressing was the state of lock 4, which was on the verge of total collapse. A huge amount of the funds raised had to be directed towards the complete reconstruction of that lock, which took years to complete. And more recently major work was necessary to temporarily bolster the wall at Grace St.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The new canal boat has arrived (more on this later).
• Avocado Mattress store coming to Cady’s Alley.
• Weird “Fashion Funhouse” comes to M St.