DC Safari closed at 4306 Georgia Ave, NW back in June 2010. I’ve heard tons of folks have been looking at the space. It’s finally been leased and there is a permit out front for cleaning the inside. Stay tuned for details as they become available.
Petworth
3830 Georgia Ave, NW
In late July we heard Petworth’s “Stinky Safeway” would likely be closing in September. Yesterday we got confirmation that the official groundbreaking for the project will be on Wed. Sept. 19th!
Photographers get your photos of the store before the property is completely razed. Upload your best ones to the PoPville flickr pool before Sept. 19th and I’ll post the best ones.
It’s finally happening!
Petworth Safeway from Interface Multimedia on Vimeo.
4000 Georgia Ave, NW
I know it’s kinda like admitting I enjoy Ruby Tuesday but I also use Red Box. What can I say? I don’t have streaming netflix or cable and sometimes I just wanna watch a movie. I also still pay my bills by mail… I mourned the closure of Blockbuster. So I was pretty psyched to see the 7-11 at Georgia and Shepherd St, NW has a Red Box out front.
The Red Box at the Columbia Heights Giant seems to always be busy. Anyone else use Red Box to rent movies?
August 2011
From Fairmont Developers:
1317 Shepherd ST NW Condominiums
This property, consisting of eight completely rehabilitated condominium units, is conveniently located in Columbia Heights, just blocks away from Metro, restaurants, shopping and many Washington DC cultural offerings. All eight units have been constructed using the highest quality materials, including Pella windows, Energy Star appliances and high-tech green insulation.
Unit A – A terrace-level large one bedroom, one bathroom unit, with private entrances and patio.
Unit B – A spacious two bedroom, two bathroom, with private entrance.
Unit C – A spacious two bedroom, two bathroom.
Unit D – Top floor large two bedroom, two bathroom unit with dramatic vaulted ceilings.
Unit E – Three stories, three bedrooms, two and half bathrooms townhouse unit with private entrance and patio.
Unit F – Three stories, three bedrooms, two and half bathrooms townhouse with private entrance and patio.
Unit G – Three stories, three bedrooms, two and half bathrooms townhouse with private entrance and patio.
Unit H – Three stories, three bedrooms, two and half bathrooms townhouse with private entrance and patio.
House of the Day, formerly Tots Development School, from Dec. 2011:
Dec. 2011
Sadly much of the awesome old fence has been removed:
847 Upshur St, NW
A reader writes:
There’s a new restaurant coming to the 800 block of Upshur St., NW. It’s going to be called “Good Bites of Petworth.” According to Diego, the owner, it will serve “vegan, vegetarian, and comfort food,” or in other words, food that captures the character of the neighborhood.
We previously heard that the former King and I space at 847 Upshur St, NW would serve “good soul food.” It’ll be interesting to see if they turn out like Georgia Ave’s Everlasting Life or Soul Vegetarian. Updates as construction progresses.
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Photo by PoPville flickr user Edward Hoover
Looking Glass Lounge is located at 3634 Georgia Ave, NW. The “Back Door Brunch” will be served 12-4PM every Saturday and Sunday. As it sounds – you enter around back through the alley.
Photo of Taqueria Distrito Federal at 805 Kennedy St, NW by PoPville flickr user rockcreek
A few weeks ago a reader wondered “Why Aren’t Investors Showing Kennedy Street Any Love?”
From DDOT:
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the District of Columbia more than $8M in grants to fund four projects in the city, including the revitalization of Kennedy Street, NW. The funding will also allow the District to move forward with planning for improved bicycle and pedestrian access near rail stations; implement a program to better manage curbside parking in busy commercial areas; and make infrastructure improvements for construction of the America Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial near the U.S. Capitol.
The Kennedy Street Revitalization project will receive $1M from the Transportation, Community and System Preservation Program (TCSP) to transform the public realm of the commercial corridor. The funds, matched by local monies, will upgrade streetscape facilities including streetlights, sidewalks, and street trees/landscaping; and implement low-cost, high impact safety improvements at key nodes. That includes the signalized intersection of Missouri Avenue/Kansas Avenue & Kennedy Street; and the non-signalized intersection of Mi ssouri Avenue/1st Street and Jefferson Street.
The District was also awarded more than $6M to complete infrastructure improvements for the Closing of C Street, SW from 2nd Street to Washington Avenue, to facilitate the construction of the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. The approved location for the memorial is a triangular-shaped site bounded by 2nd Street, SW on the west, Washington Avenue on the east, and the I-395 tunnel portals on the south, necessitating the closure of C Street, SW between Washington Ave and 2nd Street. The infrastructure improvements include utility work, signage, lighting, pavement markings, reconfiguration of the roadway, and improving pedestrian facilities. The project will result in improved traffic flow, an increase in pedestrian and bicycle safety, and improved security at the nearby Rayburn Office Building.
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will use a $1.09M grant to implement a Multimodal, dynamic parking pricing pilot program in the Chinatown/Penn Quarter area of downtown DC. The program will include a reservation system for commercial vehicle parking to manage metered curb-side spaces in congested areas. It will encourage freight travel at off-peak times and enable tour bus operators to find parking, as well as use parking revenues to support transit services.
Finally, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) was awarded $160,000 to identify opportunities for promoting housing and employment development close to rail by providing walk or bike access to and from the stations using a complete streets approach. The project will seek to moderate demand pressures on the transportation system and improve efficiency by encouraging rail ridership in the reverse-peak direction on trains that currently have plenty of seats, or by selling the same seat twice in the peak travel direction (where one group of commuters alights at a mixed-use suburban location providing space for new commuters traveling further in the peak direction). The final product of the project will be an inventory of up to 25 rail stations with high promise for housing and employment development, and an accompanying list of high-impact transportation capital projects to improve access to these stations that could be quickly implemented should funding become available from the public or private sectors.
5111 Georgia Ave, NW
From an email:
“We are going to start offering delivery service via bicycle to all of Petworth on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am – 6pm.”
Three Little Pigs opened at 5111 Georgia Ave, NW back in March 2012. Check out their menu here.
I’ve been hearing lots of rumors about the former laundromat next to Red Derby at 14th and Quincy St, NW – pizza place, new bar, coffeehouse, other restaurants. But I haven’t been able to confirm any of them – so who would you like to see take over this space?
From the New York Times:
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.
In 2003 Mr. Vidal and his companion, Mr. Austen, who was ill, left their cliffside Italian villa La Rondinaia (the Swallow’s Nest) on the Gulf of Salerno and moved to the Hollywood Hills to be closer to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Mr. Austen died that year, and in “Point to Point Navigation,” his second volume of memoirs, Mr. Vidal recalled that Mr. Austen asked from his deathbed, “Didn’t it go by awfully fast?”
“Of course it had,” Mr. Vidal wrote. “We had been too happy and the gods cannot bear the happiness of mortals.” Mr. Austen was buried in Washington in a plot Mr. Vidal had purchased in Rock Creek Cemetery. The gravestone was already inscribed with their names side by side.
Back in 2007 we stumbled upon his future headstone in Rock Creek Cemetery.