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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 to Crumbs Bake Shop and across the street from H&M. This ground floor space has been vacant since the building was renovated. The store will be two levels and clock in at 14,000 square feet, according to the Washington Post. To see the shambles the building was in as it was being renovated, visit this PQ Living post from 2007. The 42 Bus website has a great photo of what it looks like now.
2) Peets Coffee & Tea (435 11th St NW) – The Washingtonian published an opening date for the Peets Coffee & Tea at the corner of 11th and E St NW [photo]. It is…drum roll please…Monday, April 28.
3) Walgreens (1155 11th F St NW) – The now closed Guess store at the corner of 12th and F St NW (see photo at top) folded up shop recently without much fanfare. It will become a two story, 19,000 square foot Walgreens after it’s combined with another retail space reports the Washington Business Journal. Frankly, we never saw more than five people at once in that Guess store including sales and security staff so this news is not surprising. We hope the same outcome doesn’t befall the retailers at CityCenter a year or two into their leases; we’ll be keeping an eye out.
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Ah, a new Walgreens. That’ll be convenient for folks walking through the area between Metro Center and Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stations.
@Andrew – the building’s address is technically 1155 F St but the physical address is 664 11th St which is next to Crumbs and directly across the street from H&M, the Metro Center subway entrance, and the bus stop where a variety of lines stop.
here’s another WBJ article that better clarifies the address.
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@pqliving We’re considering coffee shops to be retail now? That doesn’t bode well for retail on the city, I’d think.