RSS FeedDC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
NoMa/Union Station – The Capitol City Brewing Company in the Post Office Museum building next to Union Station is closed. The beer has left the building. [Prince of Petworth]
National Mall – We’re halfway through the summer so we might as well break it to you. The security staff at Jazz in the Garden, the weekly Friday night jazz performances at the Sculpture Garden, are being more strict about not allowing outside alcohol into the event. [Broads of the Beltway] & [Broads of the Beltway – Addendum]
Georgetown – Are facade easements genuine tax breaks for homeowners? Maybe not says the IRS. [Georgetown Metropolitan]
Penn Quarter – The Koshland Science Museum at 6th and E St NW gets some love from our town’s largest daily. [WaPo]
Georgetown – A short primer on one of the best venues in DC called The Bayou. Unfortunately, it closed some time ago, but we’ll never forget the nights spent there rocking and rolling away underneath the Whitehurst Freeway. [WaPo]
Shaw – Tom Sietsema reviews Beau Thai, a new Thai restaurant on New Jersey Ave NW within reasonable walking distance of our neighborhood. [WaPo]
Downtown – The due date for bids on redevelopment of the Old Post Office Pavilion (Penn Ave between 11th and 12 St NW) building went breezing by. What do you think it will become? Office, residential, or retail…maybe all three? [Washington CityPaper – Housing Complex]
Mount Vernon Triangle – We understand that burritofication of the space on 5th St NW in CityVista will be done in mid to late-August. Chiptole is taking over one of the retail spots between Busboys & Poets and the Safeway. [PQL Intelligence Network]
Mount Vernon Triangle – A short ditty on the population of the Mount Vernon Triangle. [The Triangle]
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Thanks for the shout out! Luckily, it is pretty easy to sneak booze into Jazz in the Garden…er, not upstanding folk would do that.