RSS FeedDouglas Jemal 1, Polly Esther’s 0
Demolition work and lot clearing continues on F Street between 11th and 12th and as GP Living speculated earlier, the Polly Esther’s building is now rubble. What’s going up in its place? A 250,000 square foot office building, courtesy of Douglas Jemal, will grace the block. 10th Street across from Ford’s Theatre, home of The Waffle Shop, awaits the same fate.
Editor’s Note: GP Living previously reported on the 1000 F Street Project that “Preliminary plans should also include developed plans for the restoration of the historic façade and salvage of significant features of the old Waffle Shop.” We encourage historic preservation where appropriate but these preliminary plans are just that – preliminary.
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Say it ain’t so! The Waffle Shop has got to be one of the best breakfast places in the city! I will miss it tremendously if it’s destroyed.
Your afternoon updates, while eagerly anticipated, I am sure are secondary to getting a grocery store…the Trader Joe’s update was not an update on a grocery store in PQ/GP but rather a further perplexing reminder of how we here in this neighborhood are amazingly going overlooked. If you have any updates please post them and if not please give us a recap of where things are. Thanks
I hope they save the amazing facade of the Lerner Building — so far it looks like the demolition has been careful not to touch it. Under the dirt and grime is an incredible example of 1880s motifs.
They’re definitely leaving the Lerner facade on the Jemal project. I think they’re also keep the facades of the other buildings there along 11th St.
On a similar topic, Steven Pearlstein had a great column in today’s WaPo about the crappy downtown retail scene. He makes enlightening points about why banks and national chains like Starbucks are preferred tenants, and he certainly hates the corner of 9th & H, which he cites as urban planning gone bad due to the federal government’s security obsession.
They should incorporate residential housing into all of these developments. It is critical for this to become a true neighborhood
seems to me that Penn quarter is developing faster that any other section in the city.
I don’t believe the area to be overlooked at all.
5 years ago you didnt see a sober soul on the streets on a saturday morning. now, its got tons of energy.
the turnaround has been drastic.
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these dinky little buildings that were demolished were of no significant cultural or historic value.
i look forward to the day when the BK adult novelty bookstore is bulldozed.