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The Morning Metropolitan

Photo by Jason Pier in DC.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

  • Cute kiddies out for a stroll through Rose Park.
  • Madewell finally opened this weekend. GM needs to get around to updating “Aren’t They Building…”
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Aren’t They Building…Updates

Pottery Barn by afagen.

Last week GM unveiled a new feature here at the Georgetown Metropolitan: Aren’t They Building…It is a list of all the projects around town that GM is aware of along with a link to an article on the project and an expected date of completion.

Readers already submitted a few additions. Thus GM added the O and P St. trolley tracks, the streetcar itself, and the Jelleff sports fields.

More recently, GM heard a couple corrections to the predicted openings:

Brooks Brothers: GM originally heard that Brooks Brothers would move into the Pottery Barn space by June. Since Pottery Barn is only now closing, this is obviously not going to happen. GM guessed the new date would be fall 2010. Continue reading

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Trio of New Stores to Open in Georgetown

GM heard through the grapevine that three new stores are close to agreeing to move into three vacant spaces within a block of Wisconsin and M. They are Barbour, Camper, and Madewell.

Barbour is an English company famous for making extremely English-looking jackets, like this:

GM hears they’ll be moving into the old Richey & Co. space at 3221 M St. Continue reading

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