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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Historic Evermay was finally sold. GM hears it’s a Georgetowner who bought it, we’ll see.
- Hyde-Addison students cook up a storm.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- NBC4 notices Evermay’s price drop, doesn’t give GM credit for noticing it first. (Update: Credit now given!)
- CAG wants to save our neighborhood from GU’s Ten Year Plan, East Villagers continue not to notice.
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Evermay Slashes its Price. Again.
The Evermay estate, which has been up for sale since October of 2008, has just slashed its price again. Harry Belin started off asking $49 million for the historic property. By last April, however, he lowered the price to $39.5 million.
Oddly that low, low price still had no takers so Belin has now dropped the price down to a bargain basement $29.5 million!
Besides Belin, who else might be a little bit disappointed about this? How about media mogul Robert Allbritton. Why him? Because he paid about that same amount of money for the Bowie-Sevier estate in 2007. Yes, the Bowie-Sevier estate is one of the nicest estates in Georgetown.
But it’s not Evermay.
All kidding aside, that’s a pretty dramatic price drop. At this rate it’ll be selling for $500k by the fall.
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Ideas That Didn’t Pan Out (At Least Not Yet)
The Georgetown Metropolitan has been published since December of 2008. Over that time GM has announced a lot of new stores and restaurants or other new treats for Georgetown. The thing is, some of those ideas never saw the light of day. GM would like to list the names of those we never got to know:
Paul Restaurant
Capital Restaurant Concepts, the organization behind J. Paul’s, Neyla, Paolo’s and others, applied to turn the kitchen of the City Tavern Club into a French bakery called Paul Restaurant. While a placemark for the restaurant is still on the BID website, eleven months later and there are no signs of activity in the space.
Chance This Will Come to Fruition in 2010: Slim
The Mad Butcher
In October of 2008, Jonathan Umbell of Hook and Tacklbox announced plans to open a full service butcher in the space next to Tacklebox. As described at the time, it would have been an awesome addition to Georgetown:
At The Mad Butcher, whole pigs and sides of cattle from local farmers would be brought in and prepared on site. There would be an aging room on the property to treat the meat. The business would sell uncooked meat, and a casual cafe and fine dining restaurant would serve it.
Unfortunately a deal couldn’t be struck for Umbell to buy the property. In June 2009 he told GM that he felt the moment may have passed and he wouldn’t consider opening up at a different location until the economy improved. Needless to say, but Georgetown is still butcher-less.
Chance This Will Come to Fruition in 2010: None Continue reading
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Fraudster Hired Out Evermay for Scam Marriage
Two and a half years ago, the elegant Georgetown estate Evermay was the site of a scam marriage put on by an international fraudster in a storyline that is stranger than fiction.
Specifically, in the spring of 2007 a British national named Kevin Halligen rented out Evermay to host his wedding to American Maria Dybczak. According to recent news reports:
THE wedding guests arrived in black limousines to see a British secret agent marry his US government lawyer bride, surrounded by the strictest of security. From the grand 19th-century Evermay mansion, where the ceremony took place, the guests had commanding views of America’s power base, Washington, DC. It is a city where former intelligence operatives and military men mix warily with politicians and power-brokers, looking for lucrative government security contracts. Among the guests at the wedding were a former CIA station chief and a security adviser to Barack Obama. The best man had once been special operations marine colonel.
The guests were some of the best-informed people in the capital. Yet none knew that the wedding was a sham, the priest was an amateur actor and Richard Halligen, the groom, was an imposter.
Had the wedding not been fake, it would have been illegal. That’s because Halligen was already married. Continue reading
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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…
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Royalty Moving to Georgetown?
As DCist noted, the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is reporting that the Duke and Dutchess of Palma de Mallorca are planning on moving to Washington (she’s the youngest daughter of the King of Spain). According to Google Translate’s manglings, the paper wrote:
The Dukes of Palma is planning to move to Washington because of the professional Iñaki Urdangarín, whom their advisor responsible international Telefónica forced him to travel with increasing frequency in United States.
After almost 20 years of residence in Barcelona, the city where in 1997 he married Iñaki Urdangarín born and where his sons, Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene, the Infanta Cristinabegins a new family at the moment is temporarily with a yet undetermined time that depends exclusively on the professional obligations of the Duke of Palma.
While the family is “temporarily with a yet undetermined time”, GM doesn’t think it’s too early to speculate that they’ll choose Georgetown. Where else would a Spanish royal want to live than Everymay? What’s $49 million to an infanta?
So would you welcome los realeza or do we not need a bunch of Spanish secret service creeping around?
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Evermay Update
No, GM doesn’t haven’t any info about a certain possible new owner, but another piece of information may have slipped by unnoticed. Owner Harry Belin apparently withdrew his appeal to the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA). It’s not clear whether this move is a predicate to a sale, but it seems clear now that regardless of who owns it, Evermay isn’t going to be hosting any weddings for a long time.
More after the jump:
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Oprah – Ever May She Be Rich Enough to Buy a $50 Million Pied-a-Terre
The rumor was first spread by the apocrypha-journalists at the New York Post’s Page Six: Oprah Winfrey was looking at real estate in DC to be near her BFF Barak Obama and she was looking at a $50 million dollar mansion in Georgetown. Well there’s only one $50 million mansion for sale in Georgetown and it’s the estate known as “Evermay” at 1623 28th St. Everymay is the crown jewel of Georgetown’s family-owned large estates (Dumbarton Oaks is probably the crowniest of crown jewels of Georgetown, but it’s owned by Harvard).
After the jump: Evermay, Halcyon, and Graham, oh my…
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