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Where Would a Metro Stop Go Anyway?
While it is now little more than a glimmer in transit nerds’ eyes, the likelihood of a Georgetown metro station getting built is larger than you may realize. On the right is a map that appeared in the Washington Post in 2001. It described long term plans that WMATA was considering for the expansion of the Metrorail system. Those plans called for a splitting of the Orange and Blue lines. The new Blue line would split off from the Orange line at Rosslyn and travel parallel to the Orange line through downtown, finally meeting up with it again at Stadium-Armory. In building this separate Blue line, WMATA would have the chance to remedy the mistake it made decades ago and finally build a Georgetown station. In an act of enormous cart-before-the-horseing, GM wonders: where exactly would this station go anyway? But before we get to that, we need to go back to the 1960’s first. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown. Welcome to the second Morning Metropolitan:
- The kids over at Vox Populi discovered a construction cam for the Social Safeway and found that there is already friction starting between the residents and the construction crews. We’ll see how long it’ll take Safeway to back off their claim to have this thing built in 11 months.
- Dumbarton Oaks installed some modern sculpture that is apparently reminiscent of various bodyparts of a drug addict.
- “A sale, a trunk show and complimentary mimosas galore” at Fresh this Sunday, 2-4.
Photograph of Georgetown Cupcake by Flickr user Zachstern.
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The Morning Metropolitan
GM is going to try adding a new daily feature to the Georgetown Metropolitan: a morning round up. We’ll see how it goes. Here’s the inaugural edition:
- Over at DC Metrocentric they explore the historical firehouse on Wisconsin just south of M that how houses the Italian restaurant Paparazzi.
- The Georgetowner interviews the manager of the new HSBC that sits where the old Japan Inn restaurant was.
- Carol Joynt reports on the progress of her landlord’s efforts to sell the Nathan’s building. Oh and Chico’s closed apparently, thus defying GM’s theory that no matter where in the world you are, so too is Chico’s.
- The Four Seasons built its own herb garden to supply the newish Bourbon Steak restaurant.
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Sweet Green in Bloomberg
Courtsey of Bloomberg
Yesterday Bloomberg profiled Georgetown’s Sweet Green. The salad-cum-froyo joint was opened two years ago by three recent Georgetown grads and has been doing gangbusters ever since. Bloomberg, business outlet that it is, focused on the dollars and cents side of Sweet Green’s success. Continue reading
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Mad Butcher Not To Be
GM got in touch with Jonathan Umbel, owner of Hook and Tacklebox, this weekend to check in on the status of his proposed butcher shop/restaurant to go in next to Tacklebox. The plan was first announced last Fall, but GM was starting to get nervous that the plans fell through. Turns out his fears were justified. Umbel confirmed that the plans to open up next to Tacklebox have been scotched because the owner of the property decided not to sell. Umbel said he’s still considering other locations in Georgetown as potential locations, but will not likely make any move until the economy improves.
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Scheele’s Market Saved
Mike Peabody reported today that, as GM predicted, an agreement has been reached to save Scheele’s Market long into the future. The agreement involves an incredibly creative solution to the problem faced by the Save Scheele’s group: namely how can they come up with a legally binding way to ensure that a market will remain on the property without owning the building outright. The solution: they’ll lease it themselves. Peabody’s email explaining it all after the jump:
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