Five Years Ago… There was the Borf Building in Bloomingdale

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by Prince Of Petworth April 15, 2013 at 4:00 pm 16 Comments

borf_building_bloomingdale
2008

Last we heard 1635 North Capitol Street, NW was supposed to become a wine bar but haven’t heard anything recently.

Here’s what the building looked like in 2011 before it popped up:

borf_building
2011

And here’s what it looks like today:

2013

Anonymous

My guess is that the developer is getting greedy with rent, hence the hold up. This is 100% conjecture, however.
wobble

Hmm??

Pop-ups usually horrify me. However, this one I can live with. It is nice how they carried on the motif of the quirky little circles.
- Anonymous
  
  I believe we’ve had this escutcheon before?
Anonymous

firehouse still looks the same
Chris ini Eckington

It’s my understanding that the ANC Commissioner for the Area, Teri Janine Quinn, was/is the one hoping to open a wine bar there. Not sure what the hold up is either.
Anonymous

It looks great. Those Bork kids had totally trashed it by the time they were done with it.
- Anonymous
  
  thats not true at all. i went it there when it was the thrift store and it was an absolute shit hole. the borf kids actually fixed it up a bit.
wobble

It’s cool they kept the funny little Napolean hat, as well.
andy2

Looks Great – would have been cool if they kept 1908 and just added 2012 to the Pop-up.
- Anonymous
  
  +1 !!!
JohnDC

North Cap is definitely lagging behind 1st st. Hopefully when things start coming in it will be as rapid as our neighbor to the west.
m

Hey, Isn’t it time to put the firehouse up for horses’ ass award. Brian Brown and co have more than earned it by now
- JohnDC
  
  +1
Anonymous

I went to a punk rock show there in 2008.
hiphopanonymous

Whatever happened to BORF? I remember those days…
- Walker, DC Ranger
  
  Saw him in Adams Morgan about two years ago… pretty sure he moved out west, if I remember correctly. He was back in town to do a gallery showing in Anacostia.
  
  Y’all know this house was an art gallery, right? He paid the landlord like $1 rent for the year, as long as he and his cohorts left the place in better condition than they got.

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