The Georgetown Metropolitan

1500 block of 33rd St.

Last week, the waterfront ice rink opened for the season. GM swung by Saturday for a spin, and it was already a hopping scene. That bodes well for the rink, which has been a resounding success since it first opened two years ago. The first year, the rink had 46,000 visitors. GM doesn’t have an update on how the rink did last year, but anecdotally it was as popular if not more so last year. Continue reading →

Photo by Paul Goddard.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Add another thing that millennials are totally over: year books.
• Expect a radical design from Eastbanc for the Lukoil gas station site.

1500 block of 28th St.

Photo by Leonine von Hausen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown woman spends $35k to find lost dog.
• Waterfront ice rink arrives this weekend, just in time for the cold.

3200 block of N St.

Original Photo courtesy of LOC.

This week on Old Georgetown in Color, GM visits a historic parking lot that stood where the Apple Store now is: Witherson’s at 1229 Wisconsin Ave.

This was an empty lot until the 1980s when the building that Apple tore down was built. The lot can be seen to be empty as late as when St. Elmo’s Fire was filmed (circa 1984). Continue reading →

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM has reported on a lot of these, but here’s a nice round up of Georgetown retail news.
• Eighteenth century mansion as tech startup incubator.

1500 block of 33rd St.

Photo by Peter Hilton.

Moleskine-the official notebook of That Guy Sitting Next to You on the Bus Sketching Other Riders-is opening its first DC-area shop in Georgetown this winter. Similar to other segmented openings, the shop will begin with a “pop-up” for the holiday season. A full move-in will follow in 2015. It will occupy 3029 M St., which was most recently Scotch and Soda, and Betsy Johnson before that.

Moleskine notebooks have achieved an iconic status. You can recognize them by their typically black covers and straps:

This is an Eastbanc property, and an interesting tenant choice. The trend for M St. has been so uniformly towards clothing, that a stationary store like this is unusual. Continue reading →