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Group Considers Re-Routing Pennsylvania Ave. on Capitol Hill

Posted by Ruth Samuelson on Jun. 16, 2009, at 12:50 pm

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The Eastern Market Metro Plaza doesn’t feel like part of a square. From above, it appears to be one (or, you know, a rectangle). But on the street, it looks like a jagged, mostly paved-over triangle of land with some trees and shrubbery, where people meet up after work before heading over to Hawk and Dove or some place on 8th Street.

The plaza sits directly between Barracks Row and Eastern Market—and soon enough, some fancy new development on the Hine Junior High School site.

For more than a year, Barracks Row Main Street has been coordinating an effort to re-design the square to fluidly join the two areas on both sides of Pennsylvania Ave.

“The point is to make both 8th Street and Eastern Market—7th street, the shopping area—easier to connect to each other, so that people coming to the restaurants on 8th Street can very easily make it a part of their evening just to stroll up 7th Street,” says Sharon Bosworth with Barracks Row Main Street. “Right now, you struggle on one side or the other.You definitely have that great divide.”

Sounds innocuous enough, right?

Not to some people:

“SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK News from Barracks Row Main Street,” read a neighborhood listserv e-mail regarding an upcoming meeting on the plan.The first line: “UNBELIEVABLY, TOWN SQUARE IS REARING ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN.” Read More “Group Considers Re-Routing Pennsylvania Ave. on Capitol Hill” »