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Georgetown 2028 Report Finalized
Last week, the board of the Georgetown BID approved the final report of the Georgetown 2028 task force. GM was on the task force in his capacity as a CAG board member, so he was restricted in talking very much about the details here. Now that the report is finalized, he’s free to walk you through all the great things that are in it. He’ll spend the next several days doing so.
Today he’s going to talk big picture, and the big picturest item in the report is just one word: Metro.
Early on in the process, it became abundantly clear that when trying to plan for the future of Georgetown, the elephant in the room is Metro. Transportation is such a critical challenge for Georgetown, and there is no solution more dramatic and effective than Metro.
The long term planners for WMATA have floated plans for at least one Georgetown but the time frame is 2040. Meetings with the planners revealed that that time frame was not due to logistics but rather politics. If the politics were changed, the time frame could be changed too. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Check out the Fete de Lumieres being put on by the BID. It involved several lighted sculptures down in lower Georgetown.
- New dorm at GU delayed, additional beds may be found temporarily in the Leavey hotel instead.
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Listen to a Little Georgetown (and Rock) History
The other day, GM linked to an article telling the story of the late great Cellar Door. The reason for the publication of the article was that Neil Young just released an album from a series of live concerts he gave at the Georgetown venue in 1970. Give it a listen here.
Of course, this isn’t the only Cellar Door live recording released by a legend. Miles Davis released one. The Bluegrass greats the Seldom Scene had one too.
For a phrase often described as the most beautiful in the English language, GM guesses its fitting it’s created some beautiful music too.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Nice write up on the Georgetown 2028 report.
- Hey, did you realize that “Take Me Home Country Roads” was written at the apartment building at 31st and Q?
- The founder of the historic Georgetown Door Store passed away.
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Metro Planners Endorse Georgetown Stations
As GM has written multiple times in the past, WMATA’s long term planners have contemplated bringing the Metro to Georgetown in the distant future. While the future is still distant, the planners nonetheless took an important step recently and endorsed a Metrorail expansion that would create two stations in Georgetown.
The exact details remain somewhat fuzzy, but as you can see above from the map accompanying the announcement, the planners call for a new tunnel under the Potomac and a new subway line heading underneath M St. and onward to Union Station. This part of the plan is very similar to most ideas the planners have floated in the past. But what the train would do after Union Station is dramatically different in this plan than in the earlier ones.
Rather than branch out through H St. and of eastward, the line would head south towards the Capitol, and then curl back through SW DC towards the Pentagon. It would in effect create a loop line, similar to other loop lines around the world. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Rahul Verma.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- This chalked GU-version of Van Gogh is actually quite beautiful.
- Nice history of Georgetown’s legendary Cellar Door (which remains vacant, if anyone with deep pockets wants to recreate it).
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