The Georgetown Metropolitan

1200 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Photo by Dan McQuade.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• This is such a funky house on one of the most deserted streets in Georgetown. It’s yours for $2.5m.
• Georgetown ANC chair on Kojo yesterday to talk dockless bikeshare.

1500 block of 28th St.

A little over two years ago, GM came across an image in the archives of the Library of Congress that was a bit alarming. It was a map of a proposed “Francis Scott Key Boulevard” which would run from the Key Bridge down M St. to Pennsylvania Ave. This is the image:

As you can see, this plan would call for a large traffic circle where Key Bridge meets M St. M St. would be replaced by a grand boulevard interspersed with three different medians. All of Georgetown from N St. south would, apparently, be destroyed.

There have been a variety of plans floated that would call for the construction of highways through downtown DC. Thankfully most of them were stopped. But none of those plans called for anything like this for Georgetown. (Most simply used the Whitehurst Freeway, which would have been attached to an expressway to the west that would cross the Potomac at a new Three Sisters Bridge and link up to the GW Parkway near Spout Run.) Continue reading →

Photo by Mark Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Get a little bit of Havana every Thursday night.
• Massive house at 31st and P finally sells.

3200 block of Volta Place

The Georgetown ANC will meet next Monday for its February meeting. Here’s what interesting on the agenda:

The Georgetown BID will be discussing the results of a survey it conducted on the things that Georgetowners would like to see in the neighborhood. Not surprisingly the survey found that residents want better restaurants, but also cheap restaurants, and a nice grocery store, plus a hardware store. Will any of these things actually come to pass? Who knows, but we’ll see what the BID has to say.

There will be an update on the effort to rehabilitate the Montrose Park tennis courts. This is an effort that has stretched on for many years now, and hopefully we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The courts are currently in terrible shape. Continue reading →

Photo by Mark Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The case to bring the Hoya Men’s team games back on campus.
• Another Georgetown restaurant is trying to turn into a chain. This time it’s Falafel, Inc., on Potomac, which is opening another location at the Wharf.

2800 block of N St.

The house at 3337 erupted into flames Saturday morning. It drew a huge response from the DC fire department. By the time it was out, it appears to have destroyed the entire interior of the house (at least the front rooms).

From what GM heard, it was an electric fire. Thankfully nobody was in the house at the time. GM heard from a neighbor that the residents were actually just coming home from a trip to California on Saturday. Continue reading →