Georgetown garden by Vpickering.Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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Edith Schafer had an interesting article in this month’s CAG newsletter. In it she described the current situation of Scheele’s market. (Read this for a background on the situation).
When we last heard from Scheele’s, Marc Teren had agreed to buy the building and lease it out to a community group who would lease it back to Teren on the promise to maintain a market there.
Schafer offers a few more details on Teren’s plans than were previously available. According to Schafer, Teren would like to renovate the store and add a butcher and more fresh fruit and vegetables. He is also planning to take out the parking spaces and expand the store.
What role the Lees, who have operated the store for over 20 years, would play is still unclear. GM has even heard that they may leave as soon as Teren closes on the building, a result few around the neighborhood would be happy with.
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Georgetown Waterfront Park by Kevin H.Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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On Friday, regular reader William posed this question in the comments section to this post:
[W]here exactly does the north end of Georgetown end?
Georgetown is one of the few neighborhoods in the District whose boundaries are actually laid out by federal law. The Old Georgetown Act states that:
there is hereby created in the District of Columbia a district known as “Old Georgetown” which is bounded on the east by Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway from the Potomac River to the north boundary of Dumbarton Oaks Park, on the north by the north boundary of Dumbarton Oaks Park, Whitehaven Street and Whitehaven Parkway to Thirty-fifth Street, south along the middle of Thirty-fifth Street to Reservoir Road, west along the middle of Reservoir Road to Archbold Parkway, on the west by Archbold Parkway from Reservoir Road to the Potomac River, on the south by the Potomac River to the Rock Creek Parkway.
What does that look like in Google maps? Voila:
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Photo of zombie lurch by M.V. Jantzen
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There’s no Whole Foods in Georgetown:
Yes, it’s a bit confusing that Whole Foods calls the squarely-in-Glover-Park Whole Foods the “Georgetown Whole Foods”, but if you can get a quote from the DCFD spokesman, you can use google maps.
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West Central Heating Plant by Mr. T in DC
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