Fashion Night Out by Kineyas.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Pics of people being fashionable.
- Another piece on the state of business in Georgetown.
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The Story Behind the Hyde-Addison Numbers
A couple weeks ago, the Georgetown Current reported a spike in the size of this year’s kindergarten class at the Hyde-Addison Elementary school here in Georgetown. According to the Current, Hyde’s kindergarten class is 58, up from 40 last year.
To address this influx, the school is hiring a third teacher’s assistant to help out the two kindergarten classes. Nonetheless, as you dig into the numbers a bit, you can see that this is not likely a temporary blip. Interest in Hyde from the neighborhood has been on a sharp upward trajectory for years now and is likely to continue.
This year, though, was a particular surprise. Typically Hyde sees about 6-7 new neighborhood children join the kindergarten class each summer. These children join a larger group of children who join Hyde for Pre-K (which includes both neighborhood children and so-called “out-of-boundary” children from neighborhoods outside of Georgetown). This year rather than 6-7 new neighborhood children entering Hyde, there were 20. Continue reading
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Photo by ThisisBossi.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The Paper Store on Wisconsin recently closed. Where to get balloons now?
- DCMud does the Hurt Home, but while focusing on price, seems to have missed a lot.
- Yet another good piece from GGW on the changes to the old Circulator route.
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Capital Bikeshare to Come to Georgetown on September 20
The District’s new bikeshare system is set to roll out, so to speak, on September 20th. The original plans call for four stations to be in Georgetown: on K St. in front of the Swedish Embassy, on Wisconsin south of the canal, in front of Hardy, and in front of the university.
The first three of those stations appear likely to be ready in time. Although GM hasn’t seen any sign of the stations yet, they are installed quickly due to their reliance on solar power (thus no complications with Pepco, as delayed the SmartBike rollout). And these stations have cleared ANC and OGB review. Continue reading
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Gull by Tom-Odda1.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The Georgetown library will open on October 18th. Huzzah.
- A new Georgetown blog is on the scene: the Georgetown Patch. So far there’s an excellent article on Hardy. GM welcomes them and hopes they keep up the good work.
- O st. and P st. construction to start up in November.
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Real Estate Rebound or Simply Lowered Expectations?
Yesterday GM saw something in Georgetown he hasn’t seen in long time: a home selling above list. Granted, it was only $10,000 above the list price of $880,000 (a whopping 1% surplus), but given the way the Georgetown market has performed, it could be the beginning of a silver lining for homeowners. Or is it?
After crunching the numbers, GM found out that there has actually been a couple of such sales in Georgetown recently. Overall, the drop in sales prices from initial list prices appears to declining for Georgetown recently:
This chart shows the percentage decline in price from initial list price to sale price for Georgetown homes since the beginning of 2009 (in retrospect, GM realizes it would be easier to read if he inverted it, but hopefully you get it: the higher the dot, the bigger the drop from listing price the seller took). Continue reading
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GU Chandelier by BoopBoopBoopBoop.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Any chance they’ll make off-campus deliveries?
- Get fashionable this Friday.
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