As GM was first to report, a young Georgetown family is considering buying the Alexander Memorial Church on N St. and taking over the whole property as their home.
The Current wrote a piece about the property yesterday and disclosed the name of the individual who wants to buy it: William Langhorne (who lives with his wife and young child on N St.) But the Current missed the coolest thing about Langhorne: HE’S A FRIGGIN’ RACE CAR DRIVER! Continue reading
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The saga of the US Postal Office’s sale of the historic Georgetown post office and the approval of the development plans was long and varied. Once huge, then small, and then smaller the plans kept getting nibbled away. And now all that’s left is a little space that Eastbanc is going to end up taking itself.
When it was first announced back in 2009 that the Georgetown-based Eastbanc was going to buy the property and redevelop it, the initial plans called for a new structure off the back containing 13 – 17 condos. Moreover, at an ANC meeting, Eastbanc owner, Anthony Lanier, announced that they ultimately planned to buy the parking lot to the east and build a set of rowhouses to compliment the post office development.
Those plans were then cut back. Talk of buying the parking lot disappeared. The addition off the back got smaller and instead of condos, the plans then contemplated office space.
Then those plans got scaled back again, and the project shifted back to residential. Continue reading
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Last night the ANC met for its December session. Actually, it should be said that this was the first December session. Due to the Old Georgetown Board meeting on January 2nd, the commission is scheduling the “January” meeting to be held on December 19th.
Despite being exceptionally short, and the first of two in one month, the meeting held a lot of interest. So without further ado:
Public Safety
Lieutenant Hedgecock of MPD was present as normal to give the public safety update. There was nothing out of the ordinary to report, although he did mention that there is always an uptick of robberies in east Georgetown this time of year and that his officers were focusing increased enforcement on the area.
On a personal note, GM asked Hedgecock about a particular incident. Last week, GM was sitting at home when he heard a loud crash outside followed by a car alarm. He ran outside to witness a car scraping down a row of parked cars going the wrong way down 33rd St. The driver was clearly disoriented and kept slamming into cars. About a dozen neighbors were outside at this point as GM dialed 911. The driver appeared to be trying to drive away when a brave neighbor talked her out of the car.
She was a thirty-something “society”-looking woman who immediately began sobbing and apologizing. But she also kept trying to get back in her car, which GM’s neighbors prevented. Within about 5 minutes, MPD were on the scene, and about a half an hour later she was in cuffs being taken away as her car was towed around the block.
Hedgecock updated GM by announcing that she was arrested for DUI. Furthermore, MPD found a bag of marijuana and ecstasy in the car. Sobbing indeed. Continue reading
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The condos in the building formerly known as the “Verizon Building” will be on sale soon, as detailed on the project’s website 1055High.com.
The new name for the project is actually a rather old one: 1055 High. While “high” could be referencing many aspects of this property–not the least of which is the price–it almost certainly is a reference to the old name of Wisconsin Ave.: High St. Continue reading
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