GM finally has the Flash swipe trick back in action for this week’s Now and a Long Time Ago! Today, GM is checking in with an old, old Georgetown family company; one that is still open too boot.
That store is W. T. Weaver and Sons Hardware. This is a store that GM has already profiled on Not So Long Ago when he compared the current facade with how it stood in 1993. Today, GM goes back a lot further. This photo is from 1926. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Yesterday, the Georgetown BID announced that they had identified a new CEO following the departure of Jim Bracco in July. Starting in mid-October Joe Sternlieb will take the job. (Actually, it’s a bit of a title change for the job. When Bracco held it, it was called “executive director”).
Sternlieb is a familiar face around DC. He once served as an ANC commissioner in Dupont. In the 90s, he was staff director on the DC Council of Economic Development, where one of his achievements was to usher the law authorizing the creation of BIDs. Following his tenure there, he joined up with the newly created Downtown BID. Serving as deputy director of the BID, Sternlieb was very involved with the creation of the Circulator system (and is a big proponent of streetcars). Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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On top of the new stores coming to the mall, there are several new stores and restaurants on the way to M St. soon. GM has previously reported on each of these, but he thought it might be good to pull them together in one article.
Starting east and heading west:
Is GM missing anything?
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If you follow GM on Twitter, you’ll know that he’s a bit of a soccer fan. And while not that many people get up early on the weekends like GM just to watch the English Premier League, a whole bunch of kids in DC (including plenty of Georgetown kids) participate in the wonderful Stoddert Soccer league.
Unfortunately, this year the program was dealt a blow from the city. As the Chairman of Stoddert Soccer, Nick Keenan, wrote the groups participants:
The fields Stoddert Soccer players have used for decades – were being systematically shut out on weekday afternoons. It must be a mistake, we thought, but when we contacted the Department of Parks and Recreation we were told that, no, it’s not a mistake. It’s policy.
As the Post’s Mike DeBonis wrote yesterday: “Keenan blames private schools — particularly the Lab School of Washington and the Edmund Burke School — who use city fields for their own sports teams. In his Web missive, he said ‘political considerations’ were at play.”
Georgetown has already seen an example of a private school getting a special deal for exclusive use of a public field. In that case, the posh Maret school convinced the Fenty administration to let the school turn the Jellef fields into a modern artificial turf field in exchange for the school getting exclusive use of the field during most of the prime hours for ten years. Other schools have bitten off rather large chunks of time for public fields without having contributed what Maret did. For instance, despite having plenty of fields of its own, Sidwell Friends (tuition $34,000) has exclusive use of the Hearst fields weekdays until 5 pm. Continue reading
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