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Downtown DC/Penn Quarter News Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Happy Monday all! Here’s what we’re reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments. Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Have any tips? Send them in confidentiality to: pqliving [at] gmail.com Development Shaw – The Marriott Marquis hotel is slated to open May 1 at […]
New Retail Coming To Downtown DC: Gap, Peets Coffee & Tea (opening date update), Walgreens
Above: Shuttered Guess store at 12th and F St NW Our ever eagle eyed PQ Living readers alerted us to a few new retailers bringing their names to downtown DC. We’ll go in alphabetical order: 1) Gap (664 11th St NW) – The Gap will open in the 600 block of 11th St NW next […]
Potomac River Running Store Taking Old Cowgirl Creamery Space (919 F St NW)
Above: New signage at 919 F St NW (hat tip: Anon PQ Living reader) We now know the business replacing the former Cowgirl Creamery at 919 F St NW. It’s the Potomac River Running Store, a shop focused on providing shoes and accessories associated with the very healthy practice of running. Potomac River is a DC […]
Smithsonian Craft Show Ends Sunday April 13
One of our favorite annual events in the neighborhood is visiting the Smithsonian Craft Show where juried artists exhibit and sell the fruits of their labor. Here’s just one example, James Borden, who doesn’t make clocks but rather sculptures uniquely artistic clocks out of wood where learning the time seems like it’s just a byproduct […]