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Meeting on Parking Tomorrow Night
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Tomorrow night at 6:30 pm at Hardy School, DDOT will be hosting a forum on parking issues for the Georgetown community. GM knows that sounds incredibly dry and boring, but this will actually be interesting! The thing is, the city is taking dramatic steps to address how it manages on street parking throughout DC. And the likely changes it will recommend for Georgetown will be based on the concept of performance parking.
Performance parking is a topic GM has discussed several times before. The basic idea is this: on blocks where there is more demand than supply, the city will add meters and charge high enough rates to discourage enough people from parking on that street in order to always have a few spots open. Residents would be exempt from the meters and residents would be given some means to provide guest parking. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The Peabody Room gets a new acquisition.
- A lot of people complain about the cheap suit stores on Wisconsin Ave. and make innuendos about the “real” business going on there. The thing is, a lot of those business have shifted to sneakers, and the business is booming.
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7-11 Now Back On for O and Wisconsin
Back in October, Carol Joynt broke the news that a 7-11 was coming to the corner of O and Wisconsin (the old Doc Dalinsky’s). After this news was released, GM heard through the grapevine that the deal fell through. Well now GM hears that it’s back on.
GM heard that the reason the original deal fell through was that 7-11 was going to have to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into renovating the space and was demanding either to be paid for those renovations or receive the space rent-free. The property is owned by the large Donohue family. With such a large family, it’s hard sometimes for agreements to be made which appear to be bad deals (e.g. offering a retail space on Wisconsin Ave. for no rent). According to GM’s source, the deal just couldn’t be made and the plans were shelved. Continue reading
The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Fight brewing over possible expansion to Washington Harbour complex.
- Dine like a president in Georgetown.
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Counting Georgetown: Families
GM’s been going through the recent release of the American Community Survey and seeing what it has to say about Georgetowners. The other day, GM mentioned that the baby boom is continuing in Georgetown. Today he’ll explore that closer, and take a look at what the average family in Georgetown looks like.
According to the ACS, there are 4,187 households in Georgetown (that excludes the GU campus). There are 1,787 households with families in them. A family is defined to be a household with two or more people in it who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. So it could be a married couple, a family of five, or two siblings. The average family household size in Georgetown is 2.63. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- New general manager at Four Seasons. Same ridiculous prices.
- Here’s how those Google Streetview-inside-the-stores works.
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