Thanks to DC9 for passing on the progress across the street on 9th just south of Florida Ave/U Street.
Anon
Looks nice, although watching it go up showed that the building is actually just painted cinder block
Anonymus
Serious question, what did you expect it to be built out of? You build a timber building, and the commenters go crazy about cheap construction. You build with cinder blocks and you get criticized for I’m not quite sure what. I assume if this were old school masonry construction, there would be complaints about how the new bricks fake or something like that?
Ben
+1 Haha – Regarding old school masonry – if you read the comments about the building coming to 13th and U people aren’t complaining about the fakeness of brick construction but how it “looks like Arlington.”
northshaw
I hope this is same owners (guy and wife) that used to run the liquor store in that location pre-construction. Really nice people. We0 had chatted for years about things and whether he was going to be able to bring back the business after the construction.
Clear 
