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Where People Take Photos of Georgetown
The inestimable M.V. Jantzen has pulled together a nifty new website that shows where in Georgetown people take the most photos (and lets you quickly browse them).
Taking photos from Flickr that have been geotagged, the website applies a heat map to show where the greatest concentration is. (So, yes, it’s limited just to geotagged photos on Flickr, but that’s still a bunch of photos) Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- If you want a (slightly less formal) taste of the forthcoming Fiola Mare, check out its sister restaurant this summer downtown where the old Againn used to be (New York and 9th).
- Even back in the 70’s M St. was iffy for bikers.
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Easter Bunny Cometh
Easter is right around the corner. And Georgetown offers plenty of chances to celeggbrate with a good old fashioned Easter egg hunt.
The newest entrant into the eggstakes is Evermay. The S & R Foundation, which now owns the estate, is hosting an egg hunt Saturday March 30th at 2 pm. Tickets are $15 per adult and $5 per child. Buy your tickets here.
Another r-egg-latively new event is the Rose Park egg hunt, also on March 30th, but from 10 AM to 12 PM. This eggstravaganza will feature two life-size bunny rabbits, face painting, cotton candy, sno-cones, games and prizes. R-egg-ister here. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Vpickering.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Wait, yet another frozen yogurt place wants to come to Georgetown?
- Guy behind forthcoming Le Diplomate restaurant in Logan inquires about Georgetown space. (Doesn’t sound like he’s all that interested though).
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What’s Being Planned for the West Heating Plant
We now know who won the auction for the West Heating Plant. And due to some sleuthing by the Washington Business Journal, we are starting to get a sense for what they have planned.
The Levy Group, joined with the Four Seasons, won the auction. And according to several reports they are planning to build 80 condos in the building. But how?
WBJ dug up a letter from Matt LeGrant, the city’s zoning administrator, to the Levy Group’s lawyer. It detailed under zoning what could be done to the building. His somewhat surprising conclusion was that almost total demolition of the building may be necessary. He stated that they could then rebuild pretty much right back up to the current building’s envelope. (Interestingly, the height limit of the building would be determined by the width of the Whitehurst Freeway.)
LeGrant wrote: “Since redevelopment for any adaptive re-use, particularly residential or hotel use, would require fenestration and the addition of floors, partial demolition and reconstruction of the building are essential.”
Apparently the investment group’s architect has already created a plan that would keep only 31.6 percent of the building. It sounds like essentially they plan to completely gut the building (which would be a requirement for just about any plan) and then tear down most of the exterior walls except the front facade.
GM was somewhat surprised that LeGrant was so flexible so early in the planning. But what’s interesting is how the planning for the site will play out between the Board of Zoning Adjustment (which would decide whether to issue the partial demolition permit), the Office of Planning (which has stated that it would require a Planned Unit Development), and the Old Georgetown Board (which would have to approve all design elements of the new construction). Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- La Tasca wants to open in Georgetown. Eh, even our restaurants are getting more chainy.
- More on that dorky secret society that roiled GU’s campus.
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