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PEPCO To Start Residential Smart Metering Pilot Program
With gas prices recently blowing right through $3/gallon, almost breaking the March 1981 inflation adjusted high record of $3.29/gallon, and contributing to a greater public awareness about energy conservation, we’re glad to see PEPCO start a smart metering electricity trial program in DC. Prices for electricity will be set to different rates during different times […]
Tourist Alley (pic)
Today we bring your attention to “Tourist Alley”, that one block segment of 10th Street between E and F Streets. The daily scene includes coaches, yellow school buses and the Old Town Trolley (downtown loop and the uptown loop) loading and unloading tourists. Vendors hawking their wares completes the scene. Economic activity for the surrounding […]
Bar Louie…Updated Opening Date
A GP Living reader wrote in to say that the Bar Louie in Gallery Place is now targeting a June 10 opening date. We’ve covered the Bar Louie saga since June of last year. Looks like we’ll all have to wait just a bit longer for those artfully created jumbo martinis.
Now: Potbelly’s – Then: Dean & Deluca (pic)
The old Dean & Deluca in the Warner Building at 1299 Penn Ave (it’s actually at 13th and E Street, a block removed from Penn Ave) is now a Potbelly Sandwich Works. We checked it out and found the same sandwiches you always expect from the midwest chain with a moderate amount of seating in […]