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The ANC Responds to GU’s Recent Charm Offensive
Over the last couple months, Georgetown University has been rolling out a series of efforts aimed to address the quality of life complaints that were aired at the spring’s campus plan Zoning Commission hearings. GM is personally convinced that GU has its eye on the upcoming hearings on the campus plan as it introduces these initiatives (which doesn’t mean they’re not good initiative, just that they’re not motivated by neighborly kindness). The idea being that it will argue that it is being proactive to address the neighbor’s concerns and thus the Zoning Commission shouldn’t take the draconian step of demanding GU either build on-campus housing or obtain housing outside 20007 for all undergrads by 2015, as the Office of Planning requested.
To undercut this argument, the ANC just issued a supplemental submission to the Zoning Commission. The ANC writes:
GU’s grudging, small-scale responses to community concerns throughout this case have been disappointing. Instead of responding meaningfully to Chairman Hood‟s suggestion to the University that it propose truly new, large, and effective approaches to the neighborhood issues, GU has instead come back with small-scale tweaks to existing off campus student programs.
The ANC takes a particularly cynical view of GU’s quality of life measures:
GU reserves the right to modify any and all of its student conduct measures at any time… And GU certainly cannot expect us to believe that any 11th-hour clamp-down it may have attempted over the past several months – in the spotlight of an impending Zoning Commission decision – will or could be sustained by GU over the long run. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Baked and Wired by James Calder.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Return of Healy Pub off the drawing board.
- One of the hazards in endorsing a candidate so far away from the election, is that they drop out the next day.
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Not So Long Ago: M St. and 33rd St.
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This week on Not So Long Ago, GM stops by M St. and 33rd St.
These days, this block contains Pizzeria Paradiso and will soon host Pinkberry. In the background is Thomas Moser on the next block.
In 1993, half the space currently used by Pizzeria Paradiso was occupied by a Mexican restaurant. GM’s not sure of the name since the tree blocks the sign. It could be Posadas Grill maybe?
Next to the Mexican restaurant was Candela’s a northern Italian restaurant. While GM can say for certain what the name is–unlike with the Mexican restaurant–GM can nonetheless not tell you anything else about Candela’s.
Next over was El Caribe Restaurant, which GM is going to assume was a Spanish Caribbean restaurant.
GM can’t remember what was in Pizzeria Paradiso’s space before they moved in (they moved in sometime around 2003, if memory serves right). Next door, Sangaree was open until the last year or so.
You can’t tell from this photo, but where Thomas Moser is, there was a fast food restaurant called Tasty Chicken. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The center of Georgetown is N St. and Potomac, according to Google.
- The Halloween shooting is now a homicide. Georgetown’s second of the year, after five years without one.
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Mike Isabella to Revamp Hook as Mexican Restaurant
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Several news outlets reported yesterday that star of Top Chef and owner of the new downtown Italian restaurant Graffiato, Mike Isabella, is going to take over Jonathan Umbel’s Hook. The Post explains:
The fire that destroyed Hook in Georgetown in June gave owner Jonathan Umbel some time to think about how to restructure his upscale seafood establishment in a down economy, and he came up with what sounds like a fail-safe — if about-face — plan: “I’m converting Hook into a modern Mexican restaurant,” he announced today, and installing “a local chef who’s really hot right now:” Mike Isabella , the former Top Chef contestant and the visionary behind Graffiato in Chinatown.
The small-plates concept will be called Bandolero, and Umbel’s hope is to have the 5,000-square foot space open as early as February.
Isabella is the real deal (and a top contender on what GM thinks was the best season of Top Chef). And it’s a real catch for Georgetown to be the location of his next venture. But there’s a bit of a let down behind this. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Oak Hill Cemetery’s role in Lincoln’s private grief.
- Tombs serving secondhand meat?
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