Archive for March, 2010
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Penn Quarter – How has 7th Street changed over the last 100 years? [Streets of Washington] Mount Vernon Triangle – Kushi, a new sushi izakaya restaurant in CityVista, is open! [The Triangle] […]
Missing The Point?
Bluepoint restaurant (1299 Penn Ave NW) was never really on our radar, although we did write about their opening. We used to hit that location for a beer or two back when it was John Harvard’s, but never visited it as Bluepoint. Still it was a surprise to us this past Friday morning as we […]
How Many Gallery Place Billboards Does It Take …
As illustrated in Orange Barrel Media’s video presentation, one proposed Gallery Place billboard will protrude 8 feet from the building, obstructing condo owners’ views and negatively affecting their quality of life. A second illustration from the Orange Barrel Media video marketing presentation. One can see how much larger and out of character the billboard is […]
YWCA Building Will Change Owners (624 9th St NW)
The Washington Business Journal reports that the YWCA building on the corner of 9th and G Streets NW is in the process of being sold to MRP Realty. Although the pool had a close brush with closing in the fall spring of 2006 2008, it remained open. We suppose this is more evidence of the value […]