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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Work has begun on new Nike store.
- Painting of a frozen Potomac for sale. Would look great donated to the Georgetown library, hint hint…
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Walking in Georgetown
This week, Slate is running a series by Tom Vanderbilt on the state of walking in the U.S. Yesterday, Vanderbilt looked into the much-discussed Walk Score rating. What this is is a algorithmic that looks are various factors that improve the walkability of a particular location. For instance, how many coffee shops can you walk to? How many grocery stores? What transit can you walk to? Close by entertainment & restaurants, etc.?
So what is Georgetown’s Walk-Score? 89, or “very walkable”
This only puts Georgetown as the 19th most walkable neighborhood in DC. This doesn’t strike GM as quite accurate. One thing holding Georgetown back is that the northwest corner of Georgetown (i.e. the University, particularly around the hospital) has a pretty bad rating, relative to the rest of the neighborhood. For instance, the 4000 block of Reservoir Rd. has a rating of 78, which is still “very walkable” but is pretty low for central DC. On the other hand, the 3200 block of M St. has a perfect score of 100. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Visitation once owned a family of ten slaves, for which the convent received $3,774 when they were emancipated.
- Good list of the area’s farmers markets.
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Glover Park Streetscape Improvements Should be Carried On to Georgetown
As discussed here back in November, Glover Park is about to undertake a significant transportation project to improve its streetscape and traffic management. The project will do many things. On the most superficial level, it will beautify the sidewalks by widening them and installing new Washington Globe streetlights.
But more fundamentally, the project will take the stretch of Wisconsin Ave. and adjust how traffic flows. Right now, through most of Glover Park there are six traffic lanes, two of which are for parking, the other four for moving traffic. The change will reduce the overall lanes to (essentially) five lanes. Two lanes for parking (except during rush hour), two lanes for moving traffic, and one lane at each intersection for turning traffic.
These changes will be great. While it is true that it means only one north-south travel lane in each direction during non-rush hour times, the reality is that with cars waiting to turn left, there is often only one travel lane as it is. This will smooth out the flow of traffic since you’ll no longer get stuck behind a car turning left when you want to go straight. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Relocated Griffin Market getting great reviews.
- Wait, so are they asking what we’d like to see go into the Powerhouse?
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Come Out This Saturday to See What GU Can Do For Families
This Saturday morning, Georgetown University is hosting local families to come and learn what programs the school offers to the local community which might be of particular interest to parents of young children.
This meeting came about from discussions between the school administration and Ken Archer, friend of GM. There’s a perception (that GM shares) that a lot of Georgetowners aren’t even aware of what programs the school offers to non-students. And, obviously, when you’re not aware of a resource, you don’t take advantage of it. By changing that, it is hoped that a less hostile relationship can be developed between the school and its neighbors as more and more non-students come to realize what a wonderful resource we have in the school.
The thrust of this meeting is partially to let parents know of what programs the school offers, but also for the school to hear about what programs parents would like to see them offer. Some ideas GM has heard batted around include making University space available to child programs (like say Saturday mornings at Yates Field House), or sports clinics. Also, there is a really desire for GU to provide a sort of babysitter clearinghouse function. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- It pays to be a GU professor.
- Speaking of GU, not enough people seem to know that the school has its own farmers market. It reopens today.
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