The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Mel Peffs.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown Safeway needs more Masa Arepa.
• Free TACOS!

3100 block of Q St.

There’s been much speculation that ever since Under Armour CEO and Georgetown resident, Kevin Plank, bought the old Nathans building that he’d convert the old tavern building into a flagship location of his retail store. There’s also been some hope that since the building was bought by Plank’s personal fund, and not Under Armour itself, that maybe, just maybe, he’d see fit to put something else there.

Well that hope is about extinguished. Next week at the ANC meeting, the commission will consider an application to gut the building and convert it to retail. One need not be Nostradamus to know what store will be going in there. Carol Joynt, for one, holds out a flicker of hope that Plank will construct a tavern within the retail store (he does still have the liquor license, for what it’s worth), but GM is not optimistic. We’ll know more next week. Continue reading →

Photo by Mark Zilberman.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Tour of the storied history of 1789.
• Journalist Jonathan Chait wrote something the other day that made a lot of people angry at him. To help salve his wounds, Gawker bought him a gift certificate to a Georgetown spa.

1600 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown Business Association (which isn’t the BID) pledges to work closer with other Georgetown organizations.
• Inside the old Jesuit Residence.

GM noticed a new listing for one of the penthouses of 1055 High, Eastbanc’s ultra-luxury new building along the canal and Wisconsin. And wow, is it something.

At first the thing that caught GM’s attention was that one of the units was for sale again. It was reported last June that all the units were sold, and for cash. GM doesn’t know if this is a flip, or if the original transaction was canceled somehow. Either way, it’s a little unusual that it’s already back on the market.

But that aside, look at what it’s like to own a New York style loft in the middle of Georgetown:

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1600 block of 28th St.

Photo by Ron Cogswell.

The mighty King Sisyphus was cursed by the gods for his trickery by being forced for eternity to slowly push a boulder up a steep hill, only to have the boulder roll back down before it reached the top, over and over again.

It’s not clear what act the National Parks Service has done to suffer the wrath of the gods, but it sure seems like its goal of building more boathouses along the Potomac is a boulder that repeatedly rolls back down the hill. As far back as 1987, the National Park Service charted out plans to build multiple new boathouses around Key Bridge. Continue reading →

Photo by Daniel Lobo.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Hipster band playing…the Doc Marten’s store?
• Chadwicks…scandalous.