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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Apero opens in the former After Peacock Room space.
• GM can confirm: the canal is finally full of water.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM is checking out another photo from the Willard R. Ross postcard collection. It’s from November 12, 1910 and shows a football game between Georgetown and UVA.

The game was taking place on Georgetown Field, otherwise known as Varsity Field. It once stood north of Healy Hall where now Copley and White-Gravenor Halls stand. It was built 1894 and remained until 1930. It hosted both the baseball and football teams:

Georgetown first started playing football in 1889, just twenty years after the very first college football game. The team first played on the old Georgetown Field, which was what was there before the stadium above was built. They spent a couple years playing at American Park (where the Nationals played at the time) before moving to the new Georgetown Field in 1894. They played here until 1920, at which point they moved to Griffith Stadium. They played there until 1951 when the team was disbanded. (It was reformed as a varsity sport in the 1970s).

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The ANC and CAG write to protest DDOT’s policy for installing flexible paving on sidewalks.
• GM didn’t get a chance to verify, but he heard a report that the canal was finally being filled with water!

This is a topic that is always on people’s minds, particularly over the past year as crime rates have risen across the city. Speaking will be Councilmember Brooke Pinto, Wendy Pohlhaus, Director of Community Outreach, DC United States Attorney’s Office, and Liz Wieser, Public Safety Division, Deputy, DC Office of the Attorney General.

The discussion is described as centering on the balance between public safety and police reform, which is perhaps a bit of a controversial framing of the issue, but one that will likely draw passionate feelings regardless.

The meeting is from 6 to 7:30 and can be accessed via this Zoom link.

It’s a great time to sell a house in Georgetown. And three charts can explain why.

The first chart is a chart of the inventory of homes for sale in Georgetown since January 2018. As you can see, the inventory of homes for sale were on the higher side through most of 2020. But after dropping during the normal winter lull, the homes just never came back. In March 2020, there were 78 homes for sale in Georgetown. This March it was 42.

The second chart tracks the number of home sales in Georgetown. And despite there being so few homes for sale this spring, there were more homes going under contract this March than since April 2018. The buyers simply cleaned out the shelves.

In short, if you think you might want to sell your house in Georgetown in the next year or so, you probably ought to consider moving up those plans. GM knows of at least one neighbor who did just that. They listed the home at a price GM thought was a bit of a reach and yet it went under contract in two days.

Time will tell how long this situation lasts…

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The median home price in Georgetown now exceeds $1.6 million.
• ICYMI: the movie about Viola Drath’s murder was released and you can see it over at Union Market.