A zoning document has been filed for a Petco pet supplies store to come to DCUSA in Columbia Heights. I’m told if all goes well it will be located near the recently opened DSW. Think a Petco will do well here?
Columbia Heights
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Thanks to a reader for sending this great old advertisement from 1912. My favorite part:
“Other neighborhoods may be inhabited by more expensive homes but no neighborhood in all Washington is more desirable from the standpoint of refinement.”
The reader writes:
“To add context….
2,750.00 in 1912 is about 64,500 in today’s dollars.
5,000 in 1912 is about $117,000 in today’s dollars.
Based off of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Man…. we are all 100 years too late.”
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11th and Park Road, NW
From the folks at Meridian Pint:
We will close the ground floor from 10PM on Wednesday, November 21st to Monday, November 26th at 5PM. The basement will be open the following:
Thursday 11/22 from 8PM to close
Friday 11/23 from 5PM to close
Saturday 11/24 from 5PM to close
Sunday 11/25 from noon to close
Monday we will re-open as usual.We will not have an operational kitchen during that time so there will be no internal food service. We will be providing take out menu’s for folks to order out if they wish. Guest’s will also be allowed to bring in any take out that they wish during this time.
3232 11th Street, NW
Back in Jan. 2012 we learned that Room 11 would be expanding next door into the former Jeans n Things space at 11th and Lamont St, NW. The renovations have been completed – and the expansion looks just as good if not better than the original space:
Room 11’s general manager Jessica Woods explains the expansion:
We envisioned the new space as a European-style cafe, offering simple but high-quality espresso beverages, coffee and tea. At night, our new bar menu will offer a few rotating cocktails highlighting aperitifs and digestifs. These cocktails will be available throughout all of Room 11 (wine bar and expansion cafe) and guests at the new bar may order any current Room 11 bar offering, we’ll just run it over from the current space.
In the morning, we’ll open at 8 a.m. each day, offering coffee service through dinner. We’ll have a small breakfast menu to start, highlighting pastries, and begin to offer lunch at 11 a.m.
At dinner, the full current Room 11 menu is available in all spaces. As you know, our new chef, Adam Howard, started Monday. So far he’s focused his attention on getting familiar with our space and drafting a lunch menu, but we’re excited to see him rolling out new dishes on the dinner menu as the winter progresses.
The new space has 12 table seats and 6 bar seats, enough to significantly decrease the wait for a space in the winter, but (we think) not so many that we endanger our intimate vibe.
Having stopped in last night I can def. say the vibe is intact! Have a look:
More photos after the jump. (more…)
This rental is located at 3117 11th Street, NW:
The listing says:
“BE THE FIRST TO LIVE IN THIS TOTALLY NEW RENOVATED BASEMENT UNIT W/ 1 BDRM ,DEN IN COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. GREAT LOCATION THATS WALKING DISTANCE TO EVERYTHING…A MUST SEE”
This 1 bed/ 1 bath is going for $1,600/Mo.
2301 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington Business Journal’s Michael Neibauer shares news of a permit for a FroZenYo set to come to the 2300 block of Georgia Ave. This is the block with a Potbelly’s at the corner. I stopped by over the weekend and work had already begun on the Fuel Pizza also coming to the block.
A couple more sweet murals from the same alley where we saw the MCA tribute yesterday. It’s between 11th Street and Sherman Ave. I’m afraid I don’t remember the cross street.
14th and Belmont St, NW
A reader sends huge news about the retail spaces in the new Capitol View building from the Meridian Hill Neighborhood Association:
Capitol View on 14th, 2420 14th Street, NW, planned uses for retail space – George Levin of UDR and Chris Wilkinson of commercial broker JBG Rosenfeld Realty reported that the building is nearing completion, has eight retail spaces totaling 16,110 SF ranging from 1,008 SF to 3,977 SF, some of which can be consolidated to larger units at build-out, and 225 residential units; UDR is close to signing a lease with an upscale grocer for a 4,952 SF space on the corner of 14th and Belmont Streets; for spaces north of the residential entrance on 14th Street they are in discussions with a bank and drycleaner; and a mid/high-end restaurant has expressed interest in the commercial unit at the corner of 14th and Chapin Street and the space at the corner of 14th and Florida Avenue in the View 14 building across the street, which is also owned by UDR.
Any guesses on who the “upscale grocer” could be? Maybe something like Dean & Deluca?
3100 14th Street, NW
Lime Fresh Mexican Grill opened in Aug. in Columbia Heights’ DC USA. You can see their menu here. Anyone try them out yet? How do they compare to Chipotle?
In mid-2013 Lime Fresh will also be coming to Penn Quarter/Chinatown.