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An Update On Gallery Square (7th and H St NW)
The distressed commercial real estate financing situation has hit squarely at the intersection of 7th and H Streets NW as the Washington Business Journal broke the news that Gallery Square, the project on the northeast corner of 7th and H Streets NW owned by Gallery Tower LLC, filed for bankruptcy. PQ Living’s ears and eyes [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC.
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Shaw - Vegetate, the veggie restaurant on 9th Street NW, is closing. [Convention Center Community Association]
Downtown – The Franklin School at 13th and K Streets NW will be redeveloped at some point in the future. The question is what is [...]
Washingtonian Profiles The Penn Quarter
The December 2009 Washingtonian magazine has a “Neighborhood Best Of” piece on the Penn Quarter in print and they also put together an accompanying video (shown below). Although the video stayed west of 7th Street NW and south of H Street NW, it was nice to see the print article mention one of the handful [...]
Who Needs Black Friday?
While we know there will be a variety of restaurants open in DC on Thanksgiving Day, we were surprised to see that Banana Republic will be open as well. For six hours this Thursday, Banana Republic (601 13th ST NW) will open to let you try on clothes before the big meal (they open at [...]
Abe Pollin, Wizards Owner, Passes Away
There’s no doubt that Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards basketball team, made a big impact on DC in general and downtown specifically. He committed to and followed through on construction of the MCI (now Verizon) Center in our neighborhood in 1997, brought a needed catalyst to an underused part of town and used [...]
Macy’s Holiday Window Displays Go Live Today
We were wondering when the downtown Macy’s (1201 G St, NW) would unveil their holiday window displays facing G Street NW. Now we know that it is today at 5 pm - singer Patti Labelle will be on hand to perform and do the honors along with Santa, of course. Last year it was Brian McKnight [...]
Crash…Bang…Gu-gu-gu-gu
We’ve gotten accustomed to the possibility of being awakened at 7:30 am on weekdays by the trash pickup at the office building across the street. No need to have two alarm clocks…the second one is free courtesy of the trash haulers. The weekend mornings, however, are usually blissfully quiet but this last Saturday we heard [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC.
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All Over DC – Hope you busted out your clock on a chain…Public Enemy’s Flava Flav and Chuck D were in town to raise awareness about homelessness and perform in a benefit concert at GWU. The best [...]
Zoning Adjustments Underway At Center City Development
This week, we noticed a small sign attached to two small wooden posts on the south side of the old convention center parking lot at about 9th & H St NW (AKA the site of the Center City development). We were going to take a picture of the sign this morning, but it appears that [...]
Fit For A Suit In A Suite
More than two years ago we wrote about wanting to order a bespoke suit from one of the traveling Hong Kong tailors that visit DC. Specifically we were writing about Raja Daswani whom we had discovered via a column by Washington Post columnist John Kelly. One of the commenters in our post recommended W.W. Chan as an alternative, so we’ve [...]