From a construction walkway in Mt. Vernon Square:
Mount Vernon Squangle
77 H Street, NW
Chicken Rico’s website says:
“Chicken Rico is proud to offer our customers the best Peruvian style rotisserie chicken outside Peru. Marinated with a 40 year old family recipe, our chicken is cooked over fiery charcoal in our large rotisserie ovens. Our stores also offer traditional Peruvian dishes, along with sandwiches and salads. We promise to work tirelessly to deliver you the best quality food in the area.
A family business in every sense, Chicken Rico opened its doors in 1970 in Lima, Peru with Dora Giordano at the helm. Dora quickly won over customers with her signature mouth-watering chicken and welcoming environment.
In 1995, ownership was handed down to Dora’s daughter, Mirian Giordano. Mirian, along with her husband, Fernando Sanchez, sought to bring Peruvian cuisine to the United States. Just a few years later, the couple opened their first restaurant in Falls Church, VA, under the name Super Chicken. To this day, nearly 20 years later, they are continuing Dora’s tradition of providing customers with an unforgettable experience and the tastiest chicken around.
We hope you stop by one of our stores to experience what Peruvian style rotisserie chicken is all about.”
You can see the menu from their Baltimore spot here.
9th and L Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
So as far as exciting news goes this is pretty awesome for the development of the 9th Street corridor.
The long vacant buildings along 9th and across L Street NW are up for a zoning hearing. I was bored at work and mapped all the lots (very bored)! LOL.
The zoning notice says a Residence Inn and Courtyard by Marriott.
This development includes 1116 – 1104 9th St., 911 to 929 L Street NW AND two parcels behind 919 L St NW that have a Shepards Court NW address.”
A reader pleads:
“What in the world is going on with heavy road construction at 11pm in the middle of a heavily populated residential area [ Capitol Crossing at 3rd and Massachusetts Ave, NW]? Please post something about this so we can try to get this under control.”
Doesn’t seem like anything can be done:
“Construction activities during this phase will generally occur during the following hours:
· Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m.
· Saturday and Sunday work, scheduled only as needed, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.”
Just when it was looking good why did I have to say – Let the saga continue! A jinx waiting to happen. Thanks to @WeinDC for the update:
“What the…will we ever have a #rays”
@iankapuza also sends:
“@PoPville I guess this explains the delay for @Rayshellburger in Mt Vernon Square [451 K St, NW]”
1019 7th Street, NW
Ed. Note: The 7th street location will be open until the end of year. At that point BicycleSpace will operate out of an interim space in the neighborhood briefly before moving to the new K Street location. Updates on the interim space when they become available.
From BicycleSPACE:
“Washington D.C.’s award-winning, community-oriented bike shop, BicycleSPACE, is moving from 7th Street NW to a new location at 440 K Street NW, the Lyric apartment building, in Mount Vernon Triangle. The new location will be twice the size of BicycleSPACE’s current shop and will include ample space for its signature community events as well as space for a much larger service department. Patrons will also enjoy great food and drink at next-door neighbor Baked and Wired.
For BicycleSPACE co-founder Erik Kugler, “This is a dream come true. It is exactly the kind of space we’ve been working toward since our inception. We’re very excited to be working with The Wilkes Company and Quadrangle, and to the opportunity to even better serve the remarkable community which has been growing up around us.”
BicycleSPACE began in 2010 [459 I Street, NW] as place where bicycle culture could thrive and where all members of the DC area biking community, from experienced riders to first-timers, could feel comfortable and welcome. The shop hosts weekly rides and in-store yoga classes that fund local non-profits, public art rides, and tours of school gardens.”
440 K Street, NW
12th and Massachusetts Avenue, NW
“Dear PoPville,
Dropping you a follow up from one of your posts a while back [Nov. 2013]. Traffic arrows appear to have been changed since monday 12/1 at the latest? Now two left lanes go left, second to rightmost lane goes straight, and rightmost lane goes straight or right.”
Thanks to the ever vigilant @WeinDC for the updated photo above:
“@PoPville sign of things to come?”
We’ve previously been teased with a Ray’s Hell Burger Too sign so who knows. But that chalk sign is promising. Let the saga continue! and stay tuned of course.
451 K Street, NW
Streets of Washington, written by John DeFerrari, covers some of DC’s most interesting buildings and history. John is the author of Historic Restaurants of Washington, D.C.: Capital Eats, published by the History Press, Inc. and also the author of Lost Washington DC.
One of Washington’s perennial struggles has been to find suitable indoor venues for large public performances, conventions, and other events. The first convention hall was the one built at 5th and K Streets NW in 1875, which we profiled in 2010. It had many limitations, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, city leaders craved something more worthy of the nation’s capital. As we saw last June, Susan Whitney Dimock (1845-1939) tried unsuccessfully to have a grand George Washington Memorial Hall built on the mall. But even as the cornerstone for that project was being laid in November 1921, the city’s business leaders decided—wisely—not to wait for it. Instead they raised funds entirely on their own to demonstrate the business community’s independent ability to build a large, elegant new auditorium to meet the pressing need. But the beautiful and expensive theater they built would entertain Washingtonians for just ten years before being taken over by the federal government for office space.
The Washington Auditorium in 1926 (author’s collection).
The effort to build the Washington Auditorium, as it was called, was headed by “Colonel” Robert Newton Harper (1861-1940), a native of Leesburg, Virginia, who was president of the American National Bank. Harper broke fundraising up by commercial sector, with 100 different committees of business leaders in charge of raising $5,000 each. True to their business roots, the organizers decided to offer subscriptions to the project as investments, equally split between stock and bonds, rather than charitable contributions. Philip King, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, pledged to head one of the fundraising committees, and in a letter to Harper he summed up the rationale for the new auditorium: “Not merely from the standpoint of the dollars that come to the community from a big assemblage but more particularly from the better understanding and educational factors, do big conventions appeal to me as an admirable acquisition to the community. Great gatherings of tradesmen, of the professions and all classes of people generally tend to the refining and betterment of all who come within the range of such gatherings.” (more…)
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@ctaegel tweets us just after 8pm:
“@PoPville Protest coming down 5th street…. They just keep coming. Must be at least 1000 #Ferguson”
Another reader emails just after 9pm:
“Photo of protesters marching down H St from Union Station to the White House”
Photo by Roberto Calvo