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Zaytinya Celebrates 5th Anniversary This Week ($5 Specials)
Zaytinya is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary this week with $5 specials on drinks, mezze, and desserts! (701 9th St NW)
CityVista Begins Settlements! (Mt. Vernon Triangle)
DCMUD has the scoop: Settlements of units in CityVista’s smaller “L” building (on L St NW, between 4th & 5th) began last Friday! According to DCMUD, the “L” is 90% sold and the “K” is 40% sold. The third building, “V”, will be rental units. In addition to the flood of new neighbors, we’re also [...]
McDonald’s Responds to Concerns about Verizon Location
I eat a lot of McDonald’s. (The $1 Sundaes are a significant part of my food pyramid.) So, when I went by the Verizon Center location this weekend and encountered a similar situation to the one PQresident wrote about earlier, I decided it was time to say something. But since I have complained before and [...]
Mia Gemma Jewelry Store Coming To F St! (Building Permit Update)
Just picked this out of the recently approved building permits: Mia Gemma Coming to Carroll Square (F St NW between 9th & 10th) 10/18/07 975 F ST NW $28,500.00 renovation to ground floor retail space for new jewelry store “Mia Gemma” as per the attached dwgs. Interior work only Carroll Square Assoc. LP Out with [...]
CVS At 7th & H St NW Officially Closed Today
Kevin writes in to let us know that the CVS at 7th & H St NW has finally closed. He notes that “a sign in the window says it will be replaced by a bigger, better CVS in 2010.”
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?
We’re no Scrooges, but we were surprised to see the Washington Welcome Center replace the Redskins display with an xmas tree (Christmas tree? Holiday tree? Dead tree? Fake tree?) so early in the year. Seeing a department store pull out the xmas holiday displays before Halloween is common practice these days, but we were still taken aback by the WWC’s display [...]
Pedestrian Safety in Penn Quarter: Part 2 of 2
On Friday, we discussed some of the unsafe habits that pedestrians in Penn Quarter have fallen into. However, pedestrians looking out for their own safety is only part of the equation. Drivers have to be equally courteous and vigilant when traversing these urban streets. And the District government needs to do more to alleviate traffic [...]
How Are Those New Condos Coming?
PQ Living reader Brian, pointed us to a local real estate development blog’s thread commenting on the Madrigal Lofts project in Mount Vernon Triangle experiencing difficulty with purchasers trying to get out of their condo contracts. (We’ll take this opportunity to remind readers that signing on the dotted line of any contract is a legally [...]
Downtown McDonald’s: Portal To Another World
I have a theory. You might have to bear with me on this one but here it is…downtown DC McDonald’s are portals to other places. Open up the golden arches, goodbye DC and hello another world. I recently stopped in at the Verizon Center McD’s on 7th Street and the extra sensory overload went something like [...]
Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1905 (pic)
This cool photo was shot in 1905 and looks southeast down Penn Ave towards the Capitol. Can you spot the buildings that are still standing today? Photo courtesy of the National Museum of American History
