RSS FeedDowntown 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.
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Development
Shaw – The Marriott Marquis hotel is slated to open May 1 at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and 9th St NW opposite the Washington Convention Center. The hotel has 1,175 rooms…that’s a huge hotel for DC. [Wikipedia]
East Penn Quarter – The Capitol Crossing project is starting in earnest with utilities and street grid right-of-way relocations at 3rd and Massachusetts Ave NW. A project website with some interesting 3D renderings is available to peruse. [3rd Street Tunnel Project Website] & [Washington Business Journal]
Downtown – The Hotel Harrington (1100 block of E St NW) recently celebrated its 100th anniversary of being in business making it DC’s oldest continuously operating hotel. [WaPo]
Penn Quarter – Architect magazine reviews the decision and design process that went into building the MLK Central Library at 9th and G St NW. [Architect Magazine] (h/t: Streets of Washington tweet)
Restaurants
Penn Quarter – Tom Seitsema reviews Menu MBK (405 8th St NW) and likes it. We do too although we haven’t tried the Kitchen portion yet. [WaPo] & [PQ Living coverage of Menu]
Penn Quarter/Chinatown – Tom Seitsema also provides a first bite look at Flight Wine Bar (777 6th St NW). [WaPo] & [PQ Living coverage of Flight Wine Bar]
Downtown – The Park at 14th (920 14th St NW) recently started serving lunch Mondays through Fridays; lunch service begins at 11:30 am and finishes at 3 pm. We need to check this out in person. [Capitol Cooking] & [Park at 14th Lunch Menu]
Penn Quarter – Poste’s chef, Dennis Marron, will be decamping from Poste Brasserie (555 8th St NW) for Pittsburgh. [Eater – DC]
Real Estate/Crib of the Week
Downtown – Senator Claire MacCaskill and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder each purchase condos at CityCenter. [Washington Business Journal – MacCaskill] & [Washington Business Journal – Holder]
Crib of the Week – Yes cribsters, this week’s pad is a doozy! We profiled its sister unit way back in December of 2007 (!) in the 400 Mass Ave condo building. Today’s crib is Unit 207 which is one floor below Mammoth on Mass and it is undoubtedly one of the largest condos you can buy in the downtown area coming in at a whopping 2900 square feet and a list price of $1,049,000. It has 2 bedrooms and 1.5 baths with massive entertaining space and garage parking too. The condo fee comes in at $697 per month which is the lowest per square footage condo fee in the area owing to its massive size. We’ll call this one Son of Mammoth on Mass! [Redfin – 400 Massachusetts Ave NW – Unit 207 – MLS #DC8285134]
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