Archive for April, 2010
Retail Space Comes To 700 6th St NW
A long while ago, we discussed how unfortunate it was for the yet-to-be-built 700 6th St NW office building to not guarantee any ground floor retail in its plan. The project’s website mentioned 1st floor retail or office, making us expect for the worst: a single-use building amongst our mostly mixed-use neighborhood. Well, we are pleased to […]
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. Sound off about anything neighborhood oriented in the comments. Downtown – The Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures in the median of New York Avenue are installed. Public art is pleasant! [The Triangle] […]
WaPo: 9:30 Club Retrospective (A Penn Quarter Graduate?)
You might call the 9:30 Club, which moved to the old WUST Radio Music Hall at 8th and in the 800 block of V Street (corner of 9th and V St) NW in 1996, a graduate of the Penn Quarter and downtown DC. It first opened in the Atlantic Building at 930 F Street at […]
Food “Revolution” Coming to 7th Street (413 7th St NW)
Window signs announcing a food revolution went up into the two bays to the left of Pitango Gelato’s forthcoming Penn Quarter location at 413 7th Street NW. Formerly a single space housing the Zenith Gallery, a demising wall now separates Pitango from the newly announced joint. The due date indicated on the signs? Simply the […]