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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• REMINDER: Buy your ticket to the community party to celebrate MPD Officer Antonial Atkins on March 2nd.
• House where Jack met Jackie is already under contract.

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GM’s learned of a couple changes coming to M St. shops. In both cases, there’s a good deal of uncertainty, so how it’ll pan out is yet to be seen. But here you go:

The first involves Coach. GM has heard that the clerks are informing customers that the store is closing, so it cannot accept repair orders. No specific date was mentioned but it’s supposedly in “a couple months”.

The interesting thing about this closure is that the building is owned by Eastbanc. And way back in 2011, the company started seeking approval to build another version of Cady’s Alley behind the Coach building. At the time, Anthony Lanier mentioned to the ANC that Coach would be closing soon and then Eastbanc would take advantage of the opportunity to dramatically reconfigure the property and develop the alley behind it. And then nothing happened. Seven years later and Coach is still open. Well, open for now. Perhaps they exercised lease extension options and it’s only now that Eastbanc could end the lease. Either way, we’ll see if the developer (which is sitting on several vacant properties in Georgetown) wants to pursue its ambitious plans again. Continue reading →

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Rare Belgian brews at Sovereign this weekend.
• Smoky manhole on N St.

2700 block of P St.

The ANC meets for its March session next Monday at 6:30 at Visitation. The agenda is below, but here are some highlights:

Co-working is all the buzz recently. And now Georgetown will get a new spin on that concept with The Wing, a “network of co-working and community spaces for women.” WAMU has a bit more details: “In D.C., a trendy women’s coworking space called The Wing is expected to open in Georgetown, offering lactation rooms, blow-outs and spritzes of Chanel No. 5 for an annual fee up to $2,700.”

The item is on the agenda because they are apparently also seeking a liquor license as a restaurant, which is a bit odd! Restaurants have to get 45% of the revenues from food sales. How can a co-working space get that much money from food? Will they even have a kitchen? We’ll see.

Whatever form it finally takes, this space will have a prime location directly next to Baked and Wired. Continue reading →

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• (It’s a small thing, but in the news reports over the embattled, and now former, DC School Chancellor, Duke Ellington School is always described as in Georgetown. It is not. It’s in Burleith. But reporters like to describe it as being in Georgetown because it spices up the story. It is a lazy technique and they should stop.)
• Fiola Mare is a good place for mocktails, apparently.

1000 block of Thomas Jefferson St.