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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Mea culpa. If it weren’t for GM’s bandwagoneering, clearly this would’ve turned out better.
- The BID wants to save the canal boat.
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Why Doesn’t Georgetown Feel Like a College Town?
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Tonight, Georgetown University Hoyas will play their first round game in the Final Four tournament. But if you walk around Georgetown, you wouldn’t know it. (Well unless you walk by Prospect St. where a giant inflatable Jack looms overhead). Despite the presence of a major university right in its midst, Georgetown just doesn’t really feel like a college town.
GM went to college in a small upstate New York town. That was a college town. On fall weekends the whole town came down to watch our mediocre football team probably lose. On winter nights they’d huddle into our ice rink and watch our quite good hockey team probably win. It didn’t matter.
But that sort of relationship just doesn’t seem to exist here. Sure, there are parts of west Georgetown that are constantly buzzing with students, which might seem more college towny. But by the time you get over a few more blocks, you’d hardly think a school with thousands of students was right around the corner.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Whoa, $7,200 a month rent for a Georgetown house. Is that normal?
- These are things GM likes to call Third Ward Problems.
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Reddz Trading Moving into Monarc Rugs Space
GM has learned that the future tenant of the space currently occupied by the soon-to-be-closed Monarc Antique Rugs is Reddz Trading.
Reddz Trading is a consignment shop that currently has just one location, which is up in Bethesda. It appears to focus primarily, if not exclusively on women’s clothing. Actually, GM should clarify that the shop is not technically a consignment shop because they just pay you for your clothes when you drop them off, whether they end up selling them or not. The store’s website calls it a resale store.
Either way, this does seem to be yet another chipping away of Georgetown’s retail diversity.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GU has scotched plans to convert the convention hotel into dorms and will build a new dorm instead.
- Speaking of the campus, the plans for the New South student center are shaping up.
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Czech Yourself
GM was ready to deliver a big scoop about a new restaurant, then he did a little digging and saw that the Georgetowner beat him to it: We’re getting a Czech restaurant. It’ll be called Capitol Prague and it will take over the old Morso space at 3277 M St.
The Georgetowner writes that manager Petra Foist promises “Czech and Slovak cuisine—schnitzel, goulash, braised pork and dumplings—as well as various beers.” GM is particularly interested in that last part. Apparently the restaurant will be the first restaurant to offer Czechvar on tap. For those unfamiliar, Czechvar is the original Budweiser. In fact, in Europe it is sold as Budweiser (and our St. Louis swill is sold as “Bud”). As decided in one of the few cases GM can still remember from law school, Anheuser-Busch successfully kept the Czech brewery from selling its beer here also as Budweiser. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Old horse-pulled streetcar at the corner of O and Wisconsin.
- Muth buys more time.
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