The Georgetown Metropolitan

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 →

Photo by Paul Goddin.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU ricin-making student going away for a year.
• How temporarily widened sidewalks are a success and will be more a part of Georgetown’s future.

3000 block of R St.

Last week GM passed along the news he heard at the CAG meeting last week: that the Neam’s Market building (aka the Marvelous Market building) was in the process of being sold. He speculated that the likely purchaser would be a bank, namely because it seems like banks are willing to pay unreasonable sums to acquire highly visible buildings like this.

Well friend of GM, Carol Joynt, reached out to George Neam-whose family has owned the property for generations-and asked whether a bank was a likely tenant. “That’s not on my radar screen” was the answer.

That’s somewhat nebulous, but hopefully it nonetheless means no bank. Continue reading →

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Alice and Olivia now open in the old Qdoba space.
• Much more detailed write-up than GM’s of the fascinating talk from Anthony Lanier and Joe Sternlieb.

3100 block of Dumbarton St.