Next Monday, ANC2E will meet for their May session. GM’s hopeful that like the several months before it, this coming meeting is not nearly as boring in person as it looks on paper. GM crosses his fingers and trudges through the highlights for you after the jump:
Evermay Follows Halcyon House In Price Reduction
As mentioned a little while back, Halcyon House cut its offering price 37% from $30 million down to $19 million. At the time, GM wondered whether this would pressure Evermay to follow. Well, it took less than a month: Evermay is slashing its price too. It dropped its offering price 19% from $49 million to $39.5 million.
Barring the arrival on some Spanish royalty, it seems to GM that notwithstanding the price cuts, these houses will remain on the market for a while longer. The only Georgetown house sale above $10 million dollars in the last year was Evermay’s neighbor at 1607 28th St., which sold for $11.5 million last July. The last ridiculously large purchase that GM can remember is when Herb Miller set the still existing record of $25 million when he sold the Bowie-Sevier house in 2007. 2007 was a much different time than today.
So is there really someone out there with $39.5 million dollars who wants to buy the premiere privately owned property in Georgetown? How about organizing a few down-on-their-luck mere-multi-millionaires interested in a time-share? Hey, that sounds like a decent idea…
Filed under Real Estate
Tiki Tacky?
According to the Washington Post, the Georgetown waterfront is soon going to be adding a tiki bar. Agraria, the fresh-ingredient-proselytizing restaurant, is apparently going to undergo a face lift that will include the addition of a tiki bar.
If there’s one thing that the waterfront doesn’t need, it’s yet another fratty bar, and nothing screams frathouse more than a tiki bar. However, from the WaPo description, it doesn’t sound like the actual bar itself will be that different. They write:
Unfortunately, while we’ll have a wide selection of drinks to choose from, we won’t be sipping navy grog while sitting in some Polynesian paradise full of tiki heads and tall rattan chairs. “The decor of the restaurant won’t change too much,” Motruk Loy says. “We’re making it a little more casual, and we’ll soften it up a bit. But we’re not going to pack up Founding Farmers and bring it over here.”
Ok, so it sounds like all they’re doing is opening a new bar and then trying to start (or follow?) a nostalgic rum drink trend.
GM has been to Founding Farmers and tried their cocktails. They are an homage to the type of hand-crafted drinks that populated prohibition-era bars and they are fantastic. So, tiki heads or not, maybe those drinks will finally make it worth while to tread through the hoards of prom goers, bachelorette parties, and dudes showing off their boats and make our way down there.
Ehh, probably not.
Filed under Around Town
Ginkgogate 2009 Averted?
After the putrid travesty of Ginkgogate 2008, it appears that the DC Urban Forestry Administration has learned its lesson: don’t inject female ginkgos with a steroid-like vitamin C super serum.
Filed under Government
Buy Yourself Some Cubans
Cuba’s been in the news a lot recently. President Obama eased travel restrictions to the island nation. The Castro brothers disagreed on what that meant. And worst of all, Joe Cuba died.
When better a time to buy up some Cuban folk propagandist art? This Saturday you’ll have your chance. Bill Brubaker of 3319 O St. will be holding his annual art sale. Mr. Brubaker wrote to the Georgetown listserv that his sale:
will have the usual assortment of paintings, textiles, batiks etc. from Asia, Africa, the Americas. But the highlight will be dozens of silkscreened Cuban movie and propaganda posters from the 1960s to present. I’m selling them for $59 each. Most are 20 by 30 inches, unframed and in great condition. They make spectacular gifts.(One poster honors Marilyn Monroe!) My sale will be held Saturday and Sunday (April 25-26) from 10 am to 7 pm each day.
So between the house tour, the French Market, and a Cuban Marilyn Monroe, you certainly can’t complain that there’s nothing to do around town tomorrow.
Filed under Around Town
Avenue des Champs-Wisconsin
Georgetown is blessed with more than its fair share of French establishments: Bistro Lepic, Patisserie Poupon, Bistro Francais, Cafe Bonaparte, Cafe La Ruche, Citronelle, La Chaumerie. La liste goes on…
Well this weekend, Georgetown is about to get Frencher because it’s time for the annual French Market. From 11:00 AM to 6 PM this Friday and Saturday, 30 vendors from upper Wisconsin Ave. will be out selling their wares on the sidewalk.
GM’s always wondered what’s French about a large sidewalk sale. But oh well, it’s a fun time and a good way to give a little boost to a lot of fantastic independent stores.
Filed under Events
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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