Oh wow. I actually think that’s a big improvement. That building is clearly meant to be a single store with the central entrance, rather than four unrelated things. The only one of those I used was the liquor store, and its only moved like two shops down. I am worried whether the old CVS across the street can become something cool, given that two years since CVS moved across Columbia Road, the old shop there still sits vacant.

It’s too bad they didn’t take this opportunity to build upward, at least one or two floors. They could’ve kept the existing, historic ground level facade intact. Very surprising that such a prime location, 50 feet from the Metro, wasn’t developed further.

@Anonymous: That whole strip is protected, you can’t build up as I understand it.

@pc: Those “etchings” were put in just a couple months before Sherry’s moved around the corner. Just a simple sticker from a marketer.