New Retail Coming To F Street: Sweaters! (950 F St NW)

That is great news. I can’t say i have ever heard of them before and i didn’t particularly care for what they had on their website, but i like the fact that it seemed expensive. Hope they survive, some upscale retail on the street would be nice with so many empty storefronts.

i miss the wig store, especially around this time of year. where’s a girl gotta go for a good priced wig these days?

Any idea which space in the Atlantic Building they will occupy? Retail attracts retail, so I think it’s a good thing. There’s a lot of potential on that strip, especially with H&M, American Apparel, Jos.A.Bank and now Zara a block over. I welcome the new store! I just hope it’s not followed by a Chico’s.

Hmmm…. PQ and Metro Center may become a fashion alley of sorts with a few more apparel outlets. Maybe Benneton should have opened on F Street. And Urban, too.

I can’t say i have ever heard of them before and i didn’t particularly care for what they had on their website, but i like the fact that it seemed expensive.

And this is “great news” how?

You’ve basically described Georgetown and I haven’t shopped there in years.

The corner of 10th/Fst, Carroll building — construction workers said Panera Bread is coming at the end of the year.

Great news because, while i don’t think i will shop there, upscale retail begets other upscale retail and someone must like them or they wouldn’t stay in business selling $200 sweaters.

While not an entirely independent store, its not exactly a mass-retailer or an Appelbee’s or something like that.

Also, between Zara opening and now this store it will hopefully give other stores the courage to sign up – this stretch of retail on F from 9th to 10th is mostly vacant while Douglas Development has waited for what they deem the ideal tennants.

PQN, really? really? really? That’s wonderful!!!!! Thank you!

I heard from someone who works in the eyeglass store on 7th next to Legal Seafood, that Legal Seafood will be expanding into their space at the end of the year and the eyeglass store will then move to F street, closer to 10th.

I think it’s depressing that the choice seems to be either $200 Peruvian sweaters or vacant buildings.

At least I can still walk to Hodges and get a decent sandwich; one without foccacia, arugula, or cruelty-free Venezuelan beaver cheese.

OMG, Panera? I hope so. I wrote an impassioned letter to them a while back asking them to come in to our neighborhood. Yes, it’s a chain, blah blah blah, whatever. I love their soups.

MMM Hodges

rr if you take a ride out RI Ave way past Home Depot, there is a fabulous Wig store in a desolate strip mall. They sell the good hair and they have every thing a girl could ever want!

That wig store was right next to Dor-Nee Corset shop which was great for us larger chicks before they moved to silver spring.

Its nice the sweater store is moving in, I hope as spaces get filled we end up with a wide variety of shopping choices.

Yeah a Paneras. Yes it is a chain, but a nice one. I love all of our restaurants in the area, but sometimes we need a little bit more casual dining.

They have great little breafast items…like a mini souffle. We need quick breakfast items that are yummy.

I love their soups, as well.

I’ve driven by Hodges on many ocassions and but never stopped in. Definitely looks like a place to check out. Does anyone know if they’re open on the weekends?

Anon 11:40: I’m pretty good friends with the owner of Idoc and that is what she mentioned that Legal is taking over her space and she is going to move a few blocks away.

For wigs, I think your best bet is Old Town

loofa i got a tip to try the rhode island avenue shopping center near catholic university. it’s on the red line and they have a wild wig store.

there’s a happy medium between upscale sweaters and Sunny’s Surplus (not that I couldn’t get a decent duffle bag at Sunny’s). retail begets retail and we’re slowly seeing the pioneers take their chances. if they prove right, then we’ll see more stores pop up. I’m not talking about a zillion banks and fast casual dining. I’m talking clothing, jewelry, electronics and the like. once the Old Convention center sprouts condos and Mt. Vernon Triangle is in full swing, there will be more residents who will look for close by shopping. we’re not on the last lap of shopping development as a community but still in the middle of the race and keeping up the pace.

The WBJ article states that they are targeting women for this new D.C. store. I hope that the men will also be able to participate in buying luxury, art-knit sweaters. I hope they will have a men’s section in this store, and I would buy some if they look nice.

…”once the Old Convention center sprouts condos and Mt. Vernon Triangle is in full swing”…

I am an optimist as well, but waitig on the Old Convention center condos really takes some patience. Like someone told me once Yes, everything will work itself out EVENTUALLY – Even global warming will fix itself EVENTUALLY because the sun will EVENTUALLY burn out and the solar system will cool.

#14 – Hodges is only open Monday through Friday until 3:30, unfortunately. And the construction worker lunch rush tends to leave their turkey/roastbeef/ham supply seriously depleted.

with project development, you have to look years out, not weeks or months out to get a real vision of what could be. in the near term (meaning by the end of spring ’08), people will be moving into Mt. Vernon. a few of the projects up in Shaw will be percolating. then the Old Convention Center redev hits. Rome wasn’t built in a day they say. my outlook is that the trend is sloping upwards instead of flat or down. downtown went a decade without much happening.

the Navy Yard area will see a very compressed timeline for development (2 to 3 years) and it’ll be interesting to compare how that area evolves compared to how the PQ evolves.

#19: your global warming analogy is ridiculous. Long before the sun burns out, all human life on Earth will be history and no one will be worried about climate change. When the sun reaches its red giant star stage, the land will be scorched, all of the water boiled off and the Earth will smolder. I don’t think Al Gore is getting rich off raising concern about this type of climatic warming.

I can tell you how the Navy Yard will flesh out. It’s going to be “chain” central. There is nothing organic about it from what I can tell- and the biggest attarction is a sports stadium. At least PQ has F St- it village per se, cultural attractions, a city feel etc… Navy Yard, not so much. Still it will be interesting.

Speaking of Shaw developments, Broadcast Center One at 7th and S was approved by zoning. Due to come online in 2010. Retail, office, and rental units.

Pretty telling that there’s no condos.

The Navy Yard is a huge risk. The area is seedy and will only have the stadium going for it. Unlike, PQ it does not have location.

pqresident: I agree with you that the outlook on PQ can still be measured years out and that it looks to be headed in a positive direction, upwards. There are definitely more and more short term prospects and smaller agenda items as the neighborhood starts to sharpen its identity, but there is still time to shape your neighborhood on the macro level.

Interesting question about how Navy Yard will figure into the mix. I don’t think it will affect PQ in any way really. There’s so much room for retail and housing growth in the city I don’t see any negative impacts on PQ. Plus you’re only 4 metro stops away, so if anything, maybe there will be a small beneficial spillover from more people who want to spend their disposable income.

In my opinion the main difference between PQ’s development and Navy Yard’s development is that PQ’s revitalization involved dozens of firms and Navy Yard literally has only three or four; mostly Akridge and of course Monument.