The Georgetown Metropolitan

A Georgetown resident reported last week to the CAG Public Safety group that a possibly fraudulent contractor may have targeted his house. The m.o. is similar to another scam GM has learned of from another neighbor.

What happened was a crew of workers showed up at the resident’s house stating that they were there to fix the roof and just needed access. The only adult home was the babysitter who didn’t let them in and called the homeowner. Since the homeowner was not expecting any contractors, he told her to turn them away.

The workers left a card, seen above. The phone number is out of service. GM found a listing for LBS Contractors that includes that same disconnected phone number. Continue reading →

Photo by Kelvin Flores.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The barricade situation ended peacefully.
• Where to warm up with a drink outside in Georgetown.

3200 block of P St. (If you look carefully, you’ll see the snowflakes are Star Wars-themed)

At a November 2014 CAG public meeting, while discoursing on the future of Georgetown’s commercial district, Eastbanc President, Anthony Lanier, joked that he was hoping to land Learjet as the tenant of his new 1055 High condo building across the street from the meeting’s location at Pinstripes. He had just sold out the seven seven-figure units in barely over a week, all for cash. So it followed that he could “curate” the tenants for the two retail spaces in the building with the deep-pockets upstairs in mind. It hasn’t exactly gone as planned (or, at least, joked).

Both tenants were announced this week. The first is another in a long line a Georgetown-born businesses that aim for the national stage. It’s Tuckernuck, a preppy clothing purveyor. (The Post was the first to report it and wrote a nice article on the founders’ backstory.) The store, named after an island off Nantucket (*eye-roll*) was started by two Georgetown natives and a college friend. It’s been a strictly online company for three years, so this is its first brick-and-mortar location. They’ve got designs on wider expansions though. So, huzzah for another Georgetown-born and bred company making the big time! Continue reading →

Photo by Kelvin Flores.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some sort of a weird barricade situation down by the waterfront. (It’s just so odd to see a newspaper report that a man has been “locked in his office” for a couple hours. Without more information it sounds like an Onion article about a man napping.)
• Georgetown: Not prude!

3200 block of Volta Pl.

Those around Georgetown for New Years were treated to a sight that has not appeared here in decades: the Georgetown Theater’s neon sign aglow. Architect and owner of the property, Robert Bell had promised that the sign would be lit on New Year’s, and so it was. Continue reading →

Photo by Airbus777.

Happy New Year Georgetown, and welcome back to the Georgetown Metropolitan rested and refreshed for another year. GM missed a bunch on his break, but here’s the latest:

• The “Peeping Rabbi” was even worse than you may have realized.
• Some closings (or very soon to close) since GM last posted: Village Art and Craft (which has moved up to Q and Wis.), Jack Wills, and Nadeau (which is claiming to be moving, but it’s “moving” to a location that has been open since before the Georgetown store opened.)

It sure doesn’t feel like Christmastime out there, but it is. And GM is going to sign-off for the year. Happy Holidays!

3300 block of O St.