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Dumbarton Oaks

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Park(ing) Day returns to Georgetown tomorrow. Parking spaces in front of three stores in Georgetown will be converted to mini-public parks.

Last year was a particularly successful Park(ing) Day in Georgetown. The Baked and Wired park seen above was a wonderful use of space that typically goes to a handful of people who drive to Georgetown. Malmaison also had tables out on Water St. Continue reading →

Photo by Mark Manguerra.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice picture of the old Key mansion.
• Are you a “social entrepreneur”? If yes, you can live at Halcyon House.

1200 block of Potomac St.

John Hlinko passed on the above photo to GM yesterday. It shows the workers taking away the iconic Georgetown neon sign. As GM mentioned Monday, the new owner of the property, local architect Robert Bell, is having the sign repaired by Jack Stone Signs, the exact same company that manufactured the sign originally in the 1950s. Continue reading →

Photo by Roman Boed.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU student dies from meningitis.
• Luke’s Lobsters now serves alcohol.

1600 block of Wisconsin Ave.

Yesterday, Michael Neibauer of WBJ listed, as he often does, recent building permits of note. In what was an apparently winking bit of contrasting that he mentioned these two items together:

• 949 H St. NW: Construction of a new high-end retail clothing store, Loro Piana, at CityCenterDC. The Italian clothing company was established in 1924. Its handmade coat for men runs $36,975. But if you’re shopping there, you probably don’t care about prices.

• 3222 M St. NW: And now for the complete opposite of Loro Piana, we turn to Georgetown Park, where renovations will clear the way for a 20,000-square-foot Forever 21 on the M Street level. We first reported the addition of Forever 21in March.

In other words: whereas Georgetown is getting another discount clothing retailer, the as-of-not-even-open CityCenter is lining up yet another glitzy retailer.

This leads to a lot of questions, some GM can’t answer: Continue reading →

Photo by Roman Boad.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Ricin-cooking Georgetown student pleads guilty.
• Roy Hibbert, still running the Exorcist steps.

1200 block of Potomac St.