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Not So Long Ago: Wisconsin and Prospect
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This week for Not So Long Ago, in honor of the new iPhone 5 that probably will be announced this week, GM stops by the Apple store.
Nowadays this stretch of Wisconsin Ave. hosts Ann Taylor Loft, the Apple store, and Nine West. GM can’t make out what was in the Ann Taylor Loft. It appears that there was a store called “Black and White” on the upper floors.
As for the actual Apple store address itself, there stood a building that Apple knocked down to build its store. GM believes that building was built in the 1980s and replaced a parking lot. In 1993, it hosted a diner called Boogies. One commentator described it thusly:
In the early 1990s, there was a branch of Boogies Diner in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. They tried to sell trendy clothes in a diner atmosphere.
The clothes smelled like grease, and the restaurant area smelled like leather. Suffice to say, the concept did not work.
It lasted less than a year. Enough said.
According to this article, it opened in 1990, so the 1993 photo testifies to at least three years of greasy leather and leathery food. Sometime after 1993, the French Connection UK moved into this space (and occupied it until Apple bought the property). GM’s not sure if anything was in here between Boogies and FCUK, but if there was it probably wasn’t for long.
Finally, on the right in the space where Nine West currently is there was nothing. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jeffrey – D5000.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt reports that Scheele’s might close by the end of November. No word on whether the new landlord plans to bring in a new market.
- On the good news (but not as good as the previous news was bad) Hook has a sign up in its window saying they’ll be open soon.
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Revised Redistricting Plan Released
Yesterday, Tom Birch released his revised version of the ANC redistricting map. Birch, who is a commissioner on Georgetown’s ANC, was selected by Jack Evans to take the plans of each Ward 2 ANC redistricting committee, alter it if he saw fit, and submit the result to Evans.
Birch made several changes to the plan approved by the ANC2E redistricting committee. The most significant changes address the controversy over the first map, namely that too many people (100% of whom are students) were shoehorned into proposed SMDs 4 and 8.
To address this problem, the revised map takes two dorms and shifts them back to the mixed districts. Specifically, it takes Darnell and shifts it to SMD 2 and takes LXR and shifts it to SMD 5. Of course, it’s worth noting that both those dorms were in “mixed” districts already (the Committee plan took all the dorms from the mixed districts and put them into two student-only districts). Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Daquella Manera.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Hey Georgetown Voice, GM would be happy to share his newsroom with you, but he should warn you that it’s just a couch.
- The story of a fountain that went from Georgetown, to Truxton Circle, to rotting in the Maryland woods.
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ANC Preview: Georgetown Heights’ Time to Shine
North east Georgetown (which was historically called Georgetown Heights) doesn’t get talked about a whole lot at ANC meetings. There aren’t any bars there. There are hardly any students. And those two issues alone account for a large percentage of most ANC discussions.
Well next meeting that changes. Northeast Georgetown is the subject of each one of the New Business items on the agenda (well, 4 out of 5 if you don’t count Rose Park as northeast Georgetown, which it isn’t quite).
Here’s what they are:
- The Hurt Home is on the agenda to discuss widening the curb cut to the alley. Some neighbors think this is essential since the alley itself will be widened. DDOT, however, has said widening the curb cut isn’t appropriate.
- The Friendly Estate was deemed to be vacant and blighted by the city, resulting in a gigantic tax bill. The new owner wants it reclassified back to occupied and not blighted. It’s not clear whether they will either: A) occupy it or B) make it not actually blighted, before they want the reclassification.
- Proposed changes to late night bus schedules for D2 and G2 (OK G2 isn’t really northeast Georgetown either). The ANC has successful prevented cutbacks in the past, but GM’s not sure they can do that now.
- 3029 Q St. apparently wants a curb cut, which both the ANC and DDOT has generally opposed.
- Rose Park Master Plan
And that’s all just the new business! MRP Realty will be back with modified plans for their overhaul of Washington Harbour. That long promised boutique hotel on 31st St. will present its first plans. And, as always, plenty more.
Here’s the draft agenda: Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- New Bistro will try to open on Prospect St. GM frankly can’t see this get by without a big fight from the neighbors.
- Nice tribute to Sen. Percy and his connection with Georgetown.
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