Waffle Shop Is Closed

I saw a segment on the news this morning about the closing (I saw them taping it on Sunday). They never mentioned the Lincoln Restaurant move. I wonder if the Lincoln House is temporary. It seems odd that they would leave that out of the segment.

The Waffle Shop is dead! Long live the Lincoln House Waffle Shop!

Until the owner sells it to someone who wants to turn it into an office cube.

Monkerotica: Your first line would have made a much better article title. I need a copy editor.

There was a segment on Fox 5 last night. I don’t think they mentioned the Lincoln House either. Maybe it doesn’t make as great a story about a long time restaurant closing when you say, “oh, but they are moving just next door”.

They did say the developer has committed to saving all of the historic elements for use at a future restaurant at a different location (but didn’t really say it would be the same restaurant).

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4505060&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1

http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2007/10/01/daily5.html?surround=lfn

does anyone know what retailers are moving into the new DLA Piper building?

B: There is no retail in that building. But, the washington stage guild will be moving in.

There’s a gym, which appears to be for the office tenants, on the ground-level of the building on the 9th Street side. E Street appears to be a candidate for retail space, which hopefully does not equate to more empty storefronts. That space across the street from the DLA Piper building on E Street (in the Lexington building) that the Caribbean restaurant formerly occupied has been vacant for over a year.

No retail space in the DLA Piper building? That’s a shame! I didn’t notice any obvious retail spaces in my walkaround when they reopened the sidewalks. With the giant black hole of retail that is the FBI building superblock nearby, we need all the future retail we can get in any nearby buildings.

I think there is a plan to have a small amount of retail. Last year, the bread guy at the PQ Farmers Mkt. said the developer of the DLA building encouraged him to open a shop there. The baker wasn’t interested at the time.

The article I posted from the Washington biz journal says several retailers have been signed.

b: I see that the WaBizJo said that, but the Clark construction website says nothing about retail space and it doesn’t look like there are any suitable storefronts on the building (from my estimation). I could be wrong though!

Does anybody know what those banging noises outside were tonight?

I would like to know the same thing. At first I thought it was thunder. But there is no rain in the forecast. I could have sworn I saw flashes of light also.

Fireworks. I could see them from my condo. Shooting off somewhere around the Spy Museum area I’d guess. I tried to take some photos for the blog but none of them turned out. If one of us on the blog gets more info, we’ll put up a post about it later today.

ok, fireworks was wondering. it was really odd sounding and clear to us in northern chinatown

The fireworks were on 6th street near F.
The 6th was temporarily closed off to traffic during the “celebration”.

I am not sure exactly why it was going on.

I believe the new Shakespeare Theater Gala was the causeof the fireworks Monday night.

Pretty sure it was closer to the Building Museum. And they had one of those giant swaying spotlight thingies with 4 beams waving around. Probably some event going on (something goes on there almost every night).

yeah. They were really nice fireworks. We saw them from our terrace and they appeared to be coming from F Street by the Verizon Center? Was it the first performance in the Harman Center? Maybe the 10th Anniversary of the Verizon Center? Whatever it was, it was a pretty big deal.

It was the Opening Gala for the Harman Center.

Here’s a link to the press release:
http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/news/detail.aspx?id=51

I guess no one else noticed that the sign in the window is misspelled – Its Lincoln, not LINCON.