The North Face to Open in Georgetown

North Face to Open in Georgetown

According to the just announced agenda for next week’s ANC meeting, The North Face is presenting a design concept for a store at 3333 M St. This is the first GM’s ever heard about The North Face opening up in Georgetown, and the Google hasn’t heard about it either.

That space was most recently used for Foto Week DC, and before that it was the doomed-from-the-start Artefacto furniture (when the construction of your building is held up because of a massive sinkhole, that’s not a good omen). It’s a huge space and only so many tenants could carry it, but perhaps the name brand of North Face and it’s proximity to a prime market at Georgetown University will mean success.

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Muggers Strike Georgetown

Helen Darling, Block Captain Coordinator of CAG’s Public Safety Committee, sent out word yesterday about a recent wave of muggings in and around Georgetown, all probably perpetrated by the same few individuals. Most recently, there was a mugging Friday night at the corner of O and 28th and 9:45 PM (which VP is reporting involved two female grad students). Full alert from MPD after the jump:

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From the LOC Archives

Potomac Flood

“Potomac flood, Georgetown, D.C.” [created between 1909 and 1923]

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Is This Haunted or Something?

Is This House Haunted or Something?

How else to explain a four-bedroom home on the 3100 block of P St. selling for only $1.195 million?

How can $1.195 be a great deal you ask? Well, another four bedroom house of a similar size just down the block is selling for $2.49 million. Take a closer look at this (perhaps haunted?) house after the jump:

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Reminder: Community Meeting on Scheele’s Tomorrow

Scheele's Preservation Society to Meet Tomorrow

As reported last week, a group of concerned citizens will be meeting tomorrow at 10:30 AM at the Zion Baptist Church to discuss what steps can be taken to prevent the eviction of the Lees’ market from the building at 29th and Dumbarton.

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Hook Doubles Down On Restaurant Week

Restaurant week runs until Sunday the 22nd, but for Georgetown’s Hook, it’ll keep on going until March 1st. Times are tough in the restaurant business, and anything that remotely pumps up demand like Restaurant Week is going to be squeezed for all its worth. Hook’s restaurant week part deux menu after the jump:

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Update From Nathan’s

Update From Nathans

As discussed a little while back, Nathans is facing an uncertain future. Owner Carol Joynt has been struggling to work out an extension of her lease which ends March 31st. Today she sent out an update, check it out after the jump:

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Que Street to Really Suck Soon

Today the Georgetown Current reported on a community meeting last week on impending construction on Que St. between Dumbarton Bridge and 27th St. Anyone who remembers the “Georgetown Project” will surely not look forward to this.

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Seen Around Town

Make a Little Birdhouse in Your 31st St.

Seen around town: A birdhouse on 30th st. Anyone know who put up this birdhouse? Does it have any tenants?

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Ralph Lauren Specialty Store To Close

Double R-L To Close

The Washington Business Journal reports that Ralph Lauren specialty store RRL (apparently pronounced “Double-R L”) will close this coming weekend. Apparently three different Ralph Lauren stores on Wisconsin is one too much. The vintage-ish store has been open since June 2007. 

GM has never gone to RRL (it’s awfully easy to walk right by the place without even noticing it), but maybe there’ll be specials this weekend to make it worth the first and last visit.

Neither Rugby nor the normal Ralph Lauren store at 1245 Wisconsin will be affected by the closing.

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