This week, the Georgetown Business Improvement District crowed over the opening of 29 new national and independent businesses in the neighborhood in 2011. Maybe so! But how about those that closed? Georgetown Metropolitan has a more objective handle on the situation, and he found that the city's "shopping playground" actually lost 21 shops and restaurants [...]

For a time, 3331 N Street NW was D.C.'s third most expensive house, at a square $10 million. Until yesterday, that is, when after more than four months on the market it took a 20 percent price cut, down to $7.9 million. Only three million more than its 2012 assessed value! Just another illustration that [...]

Every couple of months, I go to some event where Georgetowners agonize about how nobody likes their neighborhood anymore—commercial corridors around the city are attracting the exciting new retail and restaurants, throwing them into an identity crisis. That was supposed to be resolved by a new branding campaign, but the fretting continues.
Last month, it was [...]

After overdosing on ward redistricting, I haven't been able to muster the interest to venture into the process of redrawing their constituent parts—Advisory Neighborhood Commissions and individual single member districts. It's been a hot topic in the newly expanded Ward 6, naturally, and to a certain extent elsewhere. ANC redistricting is the smallest-bore form of [...]

Georgetown has got to be one of the more agonizingly introspective D.C. neighborhoods. Though it's by no means down on its luck, Georgetown long ceased to be the buzzy must-be place for the next hot new thing. Throughout a recent branding process, during which residents and businesses questioned how they could compete against the [...]

For the last year, feeling the pressure of hipper neighborhoods to the east and just-as-rich neighborhoods to the north and south, the Georgetown Business Improvement District has been thinking about how to package itself to stay on top. Tonight, they'll finally unveil their concept at the BID's annual meeting. Just don't call it a re-branding.
"We [...]

'Tis the season for campus plans: Georgetown's will hit the Zoning Commission tonight (students are organizing buses to support it, while neighbors in opposition are arranging car pools), the University of the District of Columbia has its first hearing next month, American should come up soon after that. Howard is still formulating a detailed draft, [...]

Lower Wisconsin Avenue isn't known for its diplomatic buildings, but it's getting a big one soon: In early November, the African Union picked up the historic West Georgetown School at 1640 Wisconsin Avenue NW for $6.5 million.
The American College of Surgeons, which had owned the building since 1988, moved into huge new digs at 20 [...]

And you thought we were done hashing over the Georgetown Apple Store debate! Never, my friends. In the fall issue of the very charming Planning Commissioners Journal, Urban Land Institute senior fellow Edward T. McMahon uses the federalified Georgetown Apple Store as a demonstration of the neighborhood's placemaking power: Even robbed of its now-iconic glass-cube [...]

With all the change afoot at the Shops at Georgetown Park, it appears that one player is sticking around: Anchor tenant Bloomingdale's, which got on board in 2008 and then flaked last year in the depths of legal wrangling between Eastbanc and Western Development. Costar tells Bisnow that the high-end department store plans to take [...]