Photo by PoPville flickr user yostinator
“Dear PoPville,
Wondering if you have heard anything about the Fort Reno concert series? The website hasn’t been updated in a while and just says they are still looking for funding…Thanks!”
We haven’t met our fundraising goal for this year but I wanted to go ahead and get the submission window open. Please continue to spread the word about donating to the concert series – you can donate here.
Ed. Note: Last year the series kicked off July 7th so there’s still hope.
3900 Wisconsin Ave, NW
If you will it is no dream Vol. 820. Following a week we willed a Wawa and an indoor competitive Axe Throwing option to the District, I was sure we’d be talking about dog poop and doors this week. Boy was I wrong. (Well the week is young…) But last night around 10pm, while I was too engrossed in Netflix’s Who Murdered Sister Cathy? to post, WDCEP (Washington DC Economic Partnership) tweeted us:
“It’s true! @Wegmans is coming to #DC.”
“Old Fannie Mae HQ!!”
This confirms our first report of a Wegmans possibly coming to the future, former Fannie Mae site back in March.
The Washington Post reports:
“Fannie Mae is scheduled to move out of the complex late next year, clearing the way for Wegmans to open by 2022, according to Richard Lake, founding partner of Roadside Development. The grocery store, which is expected to take up about 80,000 square feet, will be located on the lower level, with an entrance at the back of the building, Lake said.”
And there was great joy in PoPville. STAY TUNED.
A reader reports just before 1pm:
“Flipped car on Wisconsin right outside Fannie Mae headquarters. They’re trying to get driver out through the sunroof now. Driver seemed lucid. But two cars are messed up and traffic is backed up down Wisconsin Ave. Virginia plates.”
Hope all are ok.
Overturned vehicle 3900 Blk Wisconsin Ave NW. Vehicle on its side with 1 still inside.
— DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) May 18, 2017
Wisconsin Ave update: extricated 1 & tx with serious non life threatening injs.No other patients. pic.twitter.com/sRBIs1iSTc
— DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) May 18, 2017
Yuri writes last week:
“We were walking through Fort Reno park and the grass was alive with emerging cicada nymphs. Here are some photographs of one that emerged an hour or two ago. These appear to be a different species than the ones that typically emerge in June/July.”
If you spot a hawk or any other bird of prey or any interesting wildlife around town, lunching or otherwise, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected] and I’ll add it to the queue. Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
More photos after the jump. (more…)
4629 41st Street, NW
Tenleytown getting in on some of this hot Poke action!! Yobi will be coming to half of the former Prince Cafe space (the other half is a new barbershop.) Updates as Yobi gets closer to opening.
Photo by PoPville flickr user John Sonderman
From the AU Police Department:
“Responding to & Preventing Cyber Harassment
An online post authored by a white supremacist was discovered on May 4, 2017, by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) targeting a student leader. American University Police is investigating the incident and encourages the community to follow these safety tips on cyber harassment.
Safety-Advisory-05-05-2017-Cyber-Harassment (PDF)
If you have information related to this incident, or witness suspicious activity online or in person, please call the American University Police at 202-885-3636 or 911 for the Metropolitan Police Department.
Make a Confidential Tip through the University Police Webpage.”
Ed. Note: Earlier this week in a different case the American University Police issued an alert and a “$1,000 reward regarding the recent racially motivated hate crime on campus.”
“AU Police has issued a $1,000 reward regarding the recent racially motivated hate crime on campus.”
4200 Wisconsin Avenue, NW at Van Ness
Hahaha this sign for Z Burger in front of the future home of Five Guys in Tenleytown cracked me up. The gloves are off, repeat the gloves are off:
3900 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington Business Journal with the massive potential news:
“Roadside Development is in talks with the popular grocer [Wegmans] to anchor its planned redevelopment of Fannie Mae’s longtime home once it relocates for a new headquarters at Carr Properties’ Midtown Center, according to sources familiar with the situation.”
WBJ also quotes Roadside Development Principal Richard Lake as saying: “We would be very pleased if they became one of our tenants, but I cannot confirm that we have a deal because we just don’t. We’re in conversations with a number of folks.”
Ed. Note: So you’re saying I’ve got a chance?!?!? Good enough for me. Dear God please make this happen.
The Tenleytown listserv getting, uh, active Sunday/today with:
“Your Dog Sh*t on my Lawn
and I caught you on video tape! Hey ***hole! Its not bad enough that your dog shit on my lawn you looked around to see if anybody was watching.
Enjoy and please let him know he is welcome to stop by and pick up his dog shit whenever he wants!”
Hopefully this voice of reason prevails:
“We’re all adults here…
Could the complaint have been raised more tactfully? Of course.
But the complaint is a valid one, and the owner of the dog should be chastised; it just could have been done in a more PG way. I have little kids that love to play on our lawn and I would be really pissed (no up intended) if some dog did its business on my lawn, much less if the owner left it there. There are laws for a reason.
Anyway, I’d love to propose that we not spend the next 24 hours each chastising the other or picking fights. Tomorrow is the first day of Spring, so let’s all think happy thoughts.”
Ed. Note: But seriously, pick up the poop, man.
