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 [...]
Ever since getting my nifty map of all the land the National Parks Service owns in the District, consequences of those holes in District sovereignty have been popping out at me all over the place. Most recently, I noticed that the broad, planter-sprinkled sidewalks of Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House–recipient of [...]
Yesterday, Shaun Courtney assessed the business state of Georgetown, which sometimes looks less healthy than it actually is because of a few shuttered storefronts along the main commercial avenues of Wisconsin and M Street. A couple months ago, I learned that many of those are actually leased, with tenants just waiting to move in.
According to [...]
When I first started this job five-ish months ago, the first person I sat down with to start figuring out the world of D.C. real estate and development was reporter-blogger Shaun Courtney, then with DCMud. Fresh off the Obama campaign, she quickly took the site to a new level of professionalism, explaining who was bulding [...]
Every once in a while, Craigslist delivers a sign of our times. Today, it does so in the form of an ad for office space on Potomac Street in Georgetown, headlined "$650 Escape Downtown – Enjoy Georgetown Cupcake (Potomac & Prospect Streets)".
Nevermind that the it's just next to Georgetown Cupcake's office, not its retail store. [...]
The Times writes today about colleges finding creative ways to increase the size of their student body without building more housing–turns out a real estate crash is a good reason to lease private buildings for kids to live in, rather than expand the university's real estate portfolio. Georgetown University, of course, is in a tougher [...]
When you hear "Georgetown," what jumps to mind?
Polo shirts and loafers? Barney’s and Benetton? Spray tans and exotic accents?
Now try a harder one: If Georgetown were an animal, what animal would it be? Or color?
Those are the types of (sometimes inscrutable) questions a group of Georgetowners have been prodded with over the last few months, [...]
While I'm on the Georgetown retail beat, I've picked up a few things. Georgetown Metropolitan went ahead and reported a couple of them this morning–furniture retailer CB2 and Calvin Klein underwear coming to empty shopfronts at 3307 and 3207 M Street respectively (and hey Topher Mathews, isn't Victoria's Secret just for underwear? Shouldn't men have [...]
There weren’t a whole lot of people kick-starting small businesses in December of 2009. But Todd Walderman, an internet entrepreneur, thought he could make a go of it. He bought a pet store on O Street from its septuagenarian owner, moved it to P Street in a commercial enclave off Wisconsin, and renamed it the [...]
