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Mt. Vernon Square Scuttlebutt: 7-Eleven Coming to 433 Massachusetts Ave, NW?
433 Massachusetts Ave, NW in 2009
Pretty big scuttlebutt for the long vacant former holdout on the 400 block of Massachusetts Ave, NW. A good source tells me that it is very likely a 7-Eleven will be moving into the retail space at 433 Massachusetts Ave, NW.
433 Massachusetts Ave, NW
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1:29am
but the vets who died gave you the right to voice your opinion. God Bless them 
i'm guessing they put in some good sound buffering windows? fl ave is LOUD.
11:06pm
^yes. The only danger at this location is being run over by a motorist from Maryland.
11:05pm
Faison's writeups make me crazy. And not in a good "I'm crazy for buying this house!" way.
The Dancing Crab's commercials have to be the worst I've ever seen. The owners saying,...
Ok, get me 10,000 balloons and a bunch of helium, I’m going to South America.
Poor Mr. Fredricksen
That is absolutely ludicrous! 7-11s always attract customers coming by car. I can see it now . . . cab drivers parking illegally on Mass Ave. to run in the store to get stuff and to chit-chat with their friends.
Looks like “The Little House” (children’s book by Virginia Lee Burton):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3460303323_13475d2194.jpg
Loved that book! Let’s move the house out to the country and give it a facelift before the 7-11 moves in.
Ugh, wouldn’t it be nice if the community got to discuss the decision to open a 7-11, like we do with Wal-Mart? I know a lot of bros who love their 3am greasy foods, but I’m sick of the pizza boxes littering the sidewalk in my neighborhood and the chicken wing bones that my puppy is so good at finding.
Yeah, judging from my experience of the sidewalk situatiou outside the 14th st Columbia Heights 7-11, this street would be better off if the building remained abandoned, IMHO.
Living near the one at 19th/Columbia, I would agree with you.
yeah it’s totally the 7-11 store’s fault.
The design for those buildings had to be changed to accommodate…a 7-11? Really? This is an aboolute waste of space.
What should it be instead? A Yoga studio? A Bar? Who decides what’s a waste?
There is a CVS around the corner. I’m hard pressed to see how a 7-11 adds to the community.
Besides, with the amount of front lawn space, there’s room for outdoor seating that’ll be wasted with a 7-11. Heck, even another Starbucks or Caribou would have been a better use of the space than a 7-11.
no. the owner would not sell so they built around him.
Two Post stories about that house. The owner refused to sell, forcing the buildings to be designed around the house.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201430.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/06/17/ST2010061706136.html?sid=ST2010061706136
This is a waste. There’s a corner market across the street and a CVS around the corner. This space would be much better as retail of some sort – Apple Store anyone? – or a restaurant that utilizes the large open space in front of the building and maybe even the rooftop.
I’ve always loved this tiny building! I want it to be my house.
If only you had offered those greedy fools the $10M they were looking for, it could have been!
There was only one greedy fool, and his greed cost him.
Look on the bright side…..it could have been a Popeyes!!!
I thought it was supposed to be a Brasserie Beck -type establishment? That was the original scuttlebutt.
can someone provide a bit more history on this little building? looks like someone was holding out for too much money for the property and they got boxed in
I believe that’s exactly what happened.
They should let this little building remain as is as a monument to the greedy and stupid. Or they could turn it into a 7-11 and make it a living memorial to the overpriced and unhealthy.
I remember it a little differently, the owner was holding out as a general protest to the construction process itself. I don’t think he ever intended to sell (didn’t care too much about the money). The original plan was to open a pizzeria (Ledo’s?). I think there was a City Paper story on it that I’m too lazy to look up.
he did hold out for the money. He was offered something around 2-3 mil but wanted more and didn’t get it. What a waste of space.
He wanted more money than was being offered. He then added the condition that he be listed as the architect of record for the building that was to be constructed. That was the last straw. The Ledo Pizza idea came up after the developers announced they were building around him. But that plan fell through as well.
The DC Tax database indicates that the property was sold last year for $715,000. Not sure if the original owner sold it or the bank because they was a foreclosure action at one point. Articles about the property indicate he was offered $2-3 million for the property before the decision to build around him was made.
Equity Residential, who owns the high rise 425 Mass (right next door) offered him over 6 million because that little crappy house has building rights to go 14 stories high, the high rise has apartments with windows that face out that way so it was more of a defensive move, and he declined that sum of money. He wanted more money, or he was going to open a Ledos Pizza and leave it to his kid. He then could not afford the taxes on it and had to sell last minute. It was sold to Zusin Development for $750K, OUCH.
So yes, he was a greedy loser.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/print-edition/2011/05/13/how-not-to-be-a-loser.html
Boo, I thought that would make a great hostel
I remember from years ago The Today Show did a story on the house & owner. It showed a reporter in front of the place then a camera across the street in another building (or crane?) zoomed out to show the enormous hole around the house. I didn’t know where in town it was.
i think we should put a pizza place here!
Considering the size, this is the perfect place to sell small plates of “American tapas.”
aka: 7-11 tacquitos.
This is why Austin Spriggs held out? Seriously!!!!!!
This whole post and the imagery just makes me laugh. Had no idea this existed.
I think that isn’t bad for that location – especially for those office workers just wanting a quick walk to get a soft drink/etc as an excuse to get outside.
I’d rather see a Royal Farms there. I love their fried chicken!
On one hand, this building being abandoned here has always been a powerful symbol of what greed can leave you and the importance of being smart with real estate. On the other, I do love me some tacquitos…
there’s no fool like an old fool
7-11 slurpee and BYOB roofdeck!
I’m sure the nieghbors would love it.
This would make a great location for a breakfast/lunch spot – a DC institution in the making.
Gross that’s the last thing needed in this area with a 24 hour CVS down the block.
A 7-11 makes no sense in that location or for the neighborhood! There’s a 24 hour CVS across the street, a small market across the street, and a 24 hour safeway 1.5 blocks away. I wish they would have put a restaurant in.
Does the 24 hour CVS sell slurpies? Chili dogs? I doubt i!
I think the Buda Bar is actually going to reopen in this space and you all got it wrong.