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Thanks to Cheryl for sending in the tip that Auntie Anne’s Pretzels is coming to the G Street walkway of Gallery Place! This kiosk, which joins the larger Smoothie King kiosk, was formerly occupied by a fair weather florist.
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@jason – check out our post “Clyde’s On The Walk Gone For Certain?” at http://pqliving.com/?p=6918 to get an answer to your Clyde’s question.
You act like you live in some trendy, hipster under the radar neighborhood… you live in Times Square, get over it!
there are few mall and airport chain eateries I like. unfortunately for my budget, Auntie Anne’s is one of them.
This is the perfect eatery to feed the munchies for all the dope smokers and dealers hanging around that corner.
David, I don’t understand how you interpreted Anon’s statement to mean that he/she thinks that we live in a “trendy, hipster under the radar neighborhood.” I don’t think anyone thinks that PQ is H Street (and it’s certainly not anything close to Times Square), but that doesn’t mean we want to live in the midst of a suburban food court.
It’s disappointing that we aren’t getting more more locally-owned small businesses or restaurants with more interest and character. I guess with rents as high as they are, it’s going to be more of the same.
It kind of fits with the whole EPCOT feel of that little “alleyway”. I agree with David, the neighborhood isn’t hip or trendy, it’s a tourist destination.
Linda-while I would love to see more locally owned small businesses opening up shop in our neighborhood, the realities of this market and modern day economy don’t make that easy. Most real estate in Gallery Place is owned by large public and private real estate institutions. As someone in real estate I can tell you, most owners go for the most credit worthy tenants. And while Auntie Anne’s can be found in just about any mall in America, guess what, they pay their rent and have very deep pockets. The small local business you speak of will open in fringe neighborhoods first where Landlords will be happy to collect any rent at all.
Come on…..there was a local store there — flower store — and apparently not enough of you supported it.
Columbia Heights’ DCUSA is an example of what happens when we wait for a local or minority run business to lease space. Now almost two years later, prime locations near Target and Best Buy remain empty.
Yes, crepes! I would definitely go up there to buy crepes, but not an Aunt Annie’s pretzel. I don’t understand why crepes haven’t caught on as a street food the way they have in Europe. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I would have welcomed a good hot dog stand.
Get your crepe fix filled on 14th street — 2 places are set to open on opposite corners at 14th and S in the next few weeks.
I looked at renting one of the kiosks in the GP alley — was turned down because it was not in the landlords “vision.” Plus the rent was so crazy expensive, I do not know how any small business could survive.
Lets face it, local small retail is not possible in DCs current real estate environment. Rents are too high and there are no incentives for developers to offer small pockets of space at a discount to promote local biz.
Oh no, you mean Auntie Annies isn’t cool enough for the sophisticated Penn Quarter consumer. If only one of the kiosks would open to sell overpriced small plates, “street food” from a third world country that is nothing like the street food sold in such place, $15 cocktails that cost $2 to make, water infused with exotic herbs from Antarctica or ozone-friendly cleaning supplies laden with HCFCs.
Anonymous 11:21. What on earth are you talking about? Who here has made any suggestion even remotely like that?
I don’t see people on this blog talking about themselves or our neighborhood in a way that sounds like we think we’re better than anyone else or too “sophisticated” or “cool” for the businesses moving in here. I don’t think it makes you a snob to say that you’d like to see your neighborhood have something a little more interesting than franchise eateries.
Lighten up and take the chip off your shoulder. I don’t think the people commenting here are the jerks you seem to suggest they are. You, on the other hand…
Linda, please remove your blinders. If you took away the franchise eateries in Penn Quarter, it would be a commercial ghost town.
People in Penn Quarter can try to come across like they aren’t pretentious but po-lease. You (we) aren’t living here because we like life in H St. NE or Columbia Heights. We are living here because we make more money, like nicer things, and expect nicer things in our neighborhood. So yes, Linda, I’ll admit for you that I would prefer a Georgetown-ish boutique any day over a pretzel shop. And yes, if Georgetown had a METRO stop, I (along with many other PQ’ers) would be living there instead.
You would live in Georgetown if you could afford to live there even without Metro. You can’t really compare Georgetown with Penn Quarter… 2 different worlds and incredible obbvious especially when you run from one to another.
Actually by run I mean run 3 miles down M, do 6 miles up Wisconsin and back down Foxhall and then 3 miles back. Way to anonymously attack someone on a blog… cool guy
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does anyone know what happened to clydes on the walk??