“Car crashed into the front of the Bemmi Hardware building 8am Sunday”

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by Prince Of Petworth June 13, 2016 at 9:45 am 8 Comments

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A reader reports:

“You’ve posted a few times about Bemmi Hardware — that always closed hardware store on the corner of 12th and Florida NW. We might be seeing some changes there soon — this morning around 8am a car jumped the curb and crashed into the front of the building. Or at least there didn’t seem to be any commotion when I left the house for a bagel run at 8am and the accident had happened by the time I rolled by at 8:23. The storefront looks pretty badly damaged — they will at least need to do a repair job. The good news is people who looked like the owners were there so it isn’t as abandoned as it seems.”

CatieCat

WOW the owners were literally fixing up the storefront for HOURS on saturday! They had the sidewalk roped off and everything. I thought, I’ve never seen that place open. What awful timing!
- Anonymous
  
  The crash was actually on Saturday morning, around 5:30am. The fix-up you saw was because of the crash. I live across the street and the crash woke a lot of the neighbors up. Luckily it didn’t look like the driver was hurt, according to a neighbor who went out.
The NeighborHood Reporter

The OP post about that happening on Sunday is WRONG.!!!!! I was in my old neighborhood on Saturday and was on my way to a cookout when I and my Father saw this damage being repaired on the building. Also I have lived in this neighborhood since 1964 and that store has always been mostly closed and hardly ever open no matter what name was on the sign. I guess it is a curse to open a business in that building.
- CatieCat
  
  OK, well then that would make sense that I saw them working on the storefront saturday afternoon (after the accident). If not, what a crazy coincidence.
Dont get it

Why does this happen so much? Two other buildings were hit by cars in DC last week.
- FridayGirl
  
  … at first i wondered if it was people driving drunk since the metro is closing early these days. but i think this was a little too late in the morning.
charlie

It isn’t vacant — the building is rented out to tenants. They keep the building up.

NO idea on what the tax dodge is but has to be worth it.
Philippe Lecheval

If I’m not mistaken, the Bemmis live in the apartment above the store.

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