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We’re Four And Looking For More
A new wave of residents and real estate development was on its way to downtown DC in 2005 and just over four years ago, we put up our first two posts as Gallery Place Living to let visitors, workers and residents know about the latest goings on in the area. The first post announced a session with [...]
Downtown Wakes Up To Beauty
Photo Credit: MVT Resident
We checked out the roads yesterday night and all the downtown roads were passable in a four wheel drive but many were still covered with white stuff and not plowed down to the pavement. The sun should take care of some of that today. Many trees took a hit as the weight [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Photo Credit: Neela
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Due to below freezing temperatures, the snow will be with us for more days so we have more reader photos of the snow on display. Yesterday’s gallery has twenty snow pictures including some from condos/apartments all over downtown.
Here’s what we were reading last [...]
Let It Snow!
UPDATED 12:30 PM: We’re receiving photos and posting as them as we can. Check after the break for reader photos from yesterday and today!
Still doing the morning jog in the Penn Quarter!
Send us your downtown and Penn Quarter Washington DC snow photos to pqliving [at] gmail.com and we’ll post them or you can use the [...]
Snow Update…What’s Open And What’s Not
Here’s what we know. It’s snowing and it’s been snowing since the morning. In downtown DC, the snow is beginning to stick to asphalt surfaces as of 4:30 pm. We received a few reports about what is open in our neighborhood and what is not as follows (sources are in square brackets):
1) Til Death Do [...]
Downtown Neighborhood Survey Now Online
The third annual Downtown Neighborhood Survey, a data gathering effort sponsored by the Downtown BID, the Downtown Neighborhood Association and the Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association is now up online. You might win a gift certificate to a downtown restaurant or a free weekend at the Monaco Hotel. You can enter the survey directly from this link.
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Photo Credit: M. V. Jantzen
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Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC.
Mount Vernon Triangle – An explanation and discussion of vault space rentals. This is not the kind of vault you’d find in a bank…if you own a condo and [...]
Son Of Platinum Nightclub?
One of our most commented on running story lines of 2008 was the now closed Platinum nightclub at 915 F St NW and the adverse impact the club had on downtown life. Although that building has hosted a nightclub since the late 1980s, most recently as Platinum and then as Club Bounce, many weekends in 2008 [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC.
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Mount Vernon Triangle – The cranes (the construction apparatus…not the bird) are returning to restart the Yale Steal Laundry residential project. How did they get financing in this crummy real estate environment? It wasn’t Wall Street, it was [...]
Downtown DC’s Netflix Queues
Ever since Olsson’s Bookstore closed, we’ve had to be a little more proactive about finding movie rentals. It was very handy to be able to impulsively pop down the street on any given night and pick up a movie for the evening at the 7th Street location. The day of the movie rental store seems [...]