
Thanks to a reader for sending this awesome sight driving through Mt. Pleasant on Saturday afternoon.

Thanks to a reader for sending this awesome sight driving through Mt. Pleasant on Saturday afternoon.

3103 Mt. Pleasant St, NW
From an email:
“The café will feature French and Brazilian dishes as well as fruit, salads, and desserts. The restaurant is named Lia’s Café after Ramona Barreiro’s niece and goddaughter. Ramona is the spa owner and one of the partners of the café.”
LIA Cafe and Ramona’s Salon & Day Spa Open House:
Join us for the opening of LIA Cafe and the relaunching of Ramona’s Salon & Day Spa!
We are excited about the soft-opening of Mount Pleasant Street’s newest Cafe and the relaunching of Ramona’s Spa with Minerva Mastacanu managing the spa which offers the latest and greatest treatment for the skin and body. Everyone who attends will get a 10% off next spa treatment coupon!
Also for the event, the spa is offering a special microdermabrasion treatment (an advanced skin correction system to gets rid of lines and wrinkles for $125 (originally $150).
French & Brazilian appetizers will be served as well as wine and other beverages during the open house.
Friday, June 19
5:00-8:00 pm
3103 Mount Pleasant Street

Thanks to a reader for sending news on 1829 Ingleside Terrace, NW:
Original Price: $799,000
Close Price: $940,000
Close Date: 7/15/2013
You can see a virtual tour of the inside here.

3068 Mt. Pleasant Street, NW
In late June we learned that Each Peach Market coming to the former Nana space in Mt. Pleasant had launched a kickstarter campaign to get them the rest of the way home. They made it. They have currently raised $20,531 and still have two days to go. Nice!

3145 Mt Pleasant Street, NW
Groundbreaking for the Monseñor Romero Apartments is tomorrow!
From an email:

Friends of Mt Pleasant Library Book Sale Sat. June 29
Start: June 29, 2013 10:00 am
End: June 29, 2013 3:00 pm
Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library
3160 16th Street NW
“The Friends of Mt Pleasant Library are holding a book sale on Saturday June 29, 10:00 am -3:00pm. Mt Pleasant Library, 3160 16th Street, NW (at the corner of Lamont and 16th). We have loads of donated books: classics, great reads, children’s, good beach books and more! Almost everything $2 and under.”
Ed. Note: You can see all events here and you can schedule your own event listing here.

3068 Mt. Pleasant Street, NW
Back in April we learned more details about Each Peach market coming to the former Nana’s space in Mt. Pleasant. They’ve just launched a kickstarter campaign to get them the rest of the way:
We have our shop space on Mt. Pleasant Street and have made great strides in getting it ready for our opening later in summer 2013. We are putting the final touches on the build out and getting our shop ready for business. What comes next is the fun (though challenging!) part– purchasing all the delicious products and raw ingredients that we’ve identified and getting our shop shelves stocked up. That’s where we can really use your support- it take a huge initial investment to purchase all our goodies and inspirational ingredients. We are financing this market all ourselves with the support of our friends, families and community are being as bootstrappy as possible. That is why we are asking for you support to give us that additional push that we need to get the yum in our shop!
Lots more information here.

From Mt. Pleasant. Great details up top, bay window and porch Very cool windows on the side too:


3145 Mt. Pleasant Street, NW June 2013
@DCRA tweeted the good news Friday:
“Yesterday, we issued bldg permits for the reconstruction of 3145 Mt Pleasant St NW.”
On March 13th 2008 a reader alerted us to the sadness:
“We are homeless.
Love,
the former residents of 3145 mt pleasant st. washington, dc
(it burnt down)”
Another resident writes:
“i was living on the first floor, the fire started in the basement. i saw the fire started on some machinery, after i put a extinguisher on it, it kept reigniting, by the time the fire engines showed up, the first basement was out of control.”
On March 17th 2008 a reader updated us:
“I can only imagine what those without renters insurance are going through but the community has come together to help make things a bit easier. Unfortunately no phone calls have been returned/and no statement has been made from the management company/owners of the building (just goes to show you how concerned they are). We hope all the other residents are doing well.”
It’s been a long time.
You can read all back posts on the former Deauville, now the Monseñor Romero Apartments here.

Photo by PoPville flickr user beaufinley
Dear PoPville,
A nice kid came to my door and animatedly pitched how he is raising money for traveling with the Cardozo Senior Marching Band. I gave him $20 to reach his $650. He wrote down my email so that the band director could send me a receipt.
I emailed the principal. They do not allow students to solicit money.