The Georgetown Metropolitan

1300 block of 35th St.

In 2012, after years of conflict and then cooperation, the Zoning Commission approved Georgetown’s latest campus plan. One of the central parts of the plan is that the school commits to house 90% of its undergrads on campus by the fall of 2015.  With that date rapidly approaching, is the rental market already feeling the pinch of reduced demand? Some residents have concluded as much in conversations with GM, and some anecdata supports that.

What people have noticed are homes still available for rent that would usually be already rented for the fall. And one particularly prominent house that has been rented for years (and is awfully shabby for it) is not only vacant but now for sale. Its the home at 3348 Prospect (seen above). This large home can be yours for $3 million. Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown condo the most expensive condo for sale right now.
• Cafe cafe now open. You need reservations and you can’t bring kids.

1700 block of 32nd St.

Earlier this week, GM wrote an article about a home for sale on Pomander Walk. In it he described the home as a “once slave quarters”. This was, shall we say, a bit off.

The great Jerry McCoy noted:

Reading this post I winced when I came to “Once slave quarters, they now host modern residents who have learned to live small.”

All ten of the row houses on Pomander Walk were constructed 1889-90 at the cost of $400.00 each. They were not constructed as “slave quarters” although it is possible that African Americans born into slavery could have lived there.

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Photo by Mrs. Gemstone.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• What to expect with the cat cafe.
• There’s a meeting next Thursday at Dumbarton House to discuss public safety issues. The meeting was organized by the ANC, CAG and the Georgetown Business Association. It starts at 7:00.

1500 block of 33rd St.

A zoning application indicates that a new “juice and taco bar” is opening in Georgetown. It’s called Baco Juice and Taco Bar.

It appears to be a restaurant out of West Chester, Pennsylvania. And GM doesn’t mean it’s a chain that started in the Philadelphia suburb. It has only one location. It’s an odd thing for a restaurant to have a only two locations and for them to be so far apart. But remember that Thomas Sweet similarly only has two locations, with the other being in Princeton, NJ. So that’s good precedent. Continue reading →

Photo by John Griffiths.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• When Washingtonian Magazine recommended routing all car traffic to a tunnel under M St.
• Baked and Wired opens a new (as of not named) location in Mt. Vernon Triangle.

3400 block of Volta Place