RSS FeedPeet’s Coffee & Tea Announces Penn Quarter Presence At 11th and E (435 11th St NW)
The former Citibank space in the southeast corner of 11th and E Streets NW (435 11th St NW) will be turning into a Peet’s Coffee & Tea as announced by the window signage that went up over the weekend. Their main coffee menu can be found here and their main tea menu here. No evidence of a specific opening date other than the standard “Opening Soon” language on the front door.
In addition to this outlet, five Peets are “opening” in DC although many of them are the rebranding of Caribou Coffee to Peet’s.
Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association Breakfast Meeting – April 2 (Topic: DDOT North-South Corridor)
By e-mail we were notified of the next Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association breakfast meeting. RSVP by Noon Monday, March 31st is requested.
Please indicate if you heard of this meeting from Penn Quarter Living.
Details follow below:
Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association Breakfast Meeting
Wednesday, April 2, 8:30amLocation
Oyamel
401 Seventh Street, NW
Metro: Archives-Navy Mem’l-Penn Quarter – Green & Yellow Lines; Gallery Pl-Chinatown, exit 7th and F streets – Red LineAgenda
Continental Breakfast – 8:30 – 8:55am
Announcements – 9:00am
Speaker – 9:15amSpeaker
Jamie HensonDDOT Project Manager for the North-South Corridor Planning Study Jamie Henson returns to report on the Department of Transportation’s decisions to date, show various configurations for locating streetcar tracks, explain limitations and opportunities, and seek both your suggestions for streetcar routes and your evaluation of potential routes they are currently considering. Comments on street configurations (tracks, moving traffic lanes, and curbside parking/loading) will be considered as will problems you are able to point out. Jamie will also describe their next steps in this planning study.
Please respond if you plan on attending this meeting as it will help our host prepare
RSVP via email by noon Monday, March 31 to joann(at)PennQuarter.org
Include the first and last names and affiliations of all people attending
History on Foot: Willard Hotel and the Civil War
Have you ever noticed the assorted plaques on the exterior of the Willard Hotel (1401 Penn. Ave. NW). A lot of history has taken place at this spot. One notable event, the Peace Convention held in February 1861, “the last major effort to restore the Union and prevent the Civil War.”
Unfortunately, the proposed amendment to the Constitution developed by the 131 statesmen at the Convention didn’t satisfy the need for true compromise around key issues dividing the parties, namely slavery. The proposal was rejected by the Senate and never came to a vote in the House. Plans to continue the negotiations started at the Convention at another meeting in June never came about because of the events at Fort Sumter in April 1861 and the start of the Civil War.
It’s hard not to wonder about how our country would be different today if compromise would have been reached at the Convention and the Civil War had never been fought.
Calumet Photo (aka Penn Camera) Shutters Doors…Interesting Memo To Customers On Front Door
Calumet Photo (840 E St NW), formerly known as Penn Camera, closed its doors unexpectedly on Thursday, March 13 when the company declared it is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The website is dark, the Facebook page is gone, but the phone still rings and the voice mail picks up identifying Calumet. This location was previously a Penn Camera which had relocated from the 900 block of E Street NW when The Artisan condo was developed in 2005/2006.
We checked out the E Street location and found two signs posted with the typical corporate language you’d see for a closing event like this one. We also found one notice providing a name and e-mail contact for those customers who want to try to get their property back (photos and/or gear). See the last photo below for the full text of the memo and the contact information.
