Posts tagged Retail
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What’s wrong with 17th Street redux
There are more great comments on my post about what’s wrong with 17th Street after the Dupont Circle Update newsletter linked to it yesterday. Keep reading…
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Breakfast bites
Obama, Clinton ride transit but don’t talk about it: Clinton and Obama both have good, though vague, plaforms on transportation policy, writes the Philadelphia Daily News. But transportation hasn’t been an issue in the campaign, while America needs visionary thinking in transportation. One thing’s for sure, but not in the article: McCain is much worse, by… Keep reading…
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DCUSA 1910
Too bad we don’t still have this building housing an “Eastern Market-style market” at the DCUSA site. Keep reading…
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Suburban supermarket and strip mall dropped in Congress Heights
Ward 8, Washington’s southernmost and poorest ward, had not a single supermarket from 1998 until December 2007, when a new Giant opened in Congress Heights. Unfortunately, that Giant looks like it came straight from Atlanta, with seas of parking in front that are never full. Keep reading…
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Get these stinkin’ pedestrians out of my drive-thru Wendy’s!
The Wendy’s at Court House Metro closes at 10, but the drive-through stays open until 2. Should pedestrians walk up to the drive-thru window? Stand between cars to “wait in line?” Go elsewhere? Read the debate at Metroblogging DC including a dose of good old “blame the pedestrians for risking injury by invading the sacred car-only realm.”… Keep reading…
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What’s wrong with 17th Street?
The 17th Street corridor in Dupont is a disappointment wrapped in an enigma. It’s a major retail corridor in a neighborhood that’s hugely successful. The Safeway draws shoppers from all around. It has some fancy restaurants like Komi and Sushi Taro. Keep reading…
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Early draft of parking zoning rules reduces some minimums (but not enough)
Over five meetings of the Parking and Loading working group, citizens gave their input on how much DC’s zoning code should require parking lots or garages in new development, where parking can be located on a lot, how many trees parking lots need, what bike parking is mandatory, and more. And last week, the Office of Planning released a draft of the new rules which they’ve… Keep reading…
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Forty years
Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. That night, a wave of violence and looting destroyed the commercial main streets in Shaw, Columbia Heights, H Street, Capitol Hill, Anacostia, and others. Keep reading…
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Zoning Update may restrict long storefronts and blank walls
Today is the third meeting of the Retail Strategy zoning update group. I can’t make it, but I really like two of the proposals they will be discussing: a frontage limit for stores, and a limit on blank walls facing the street in retail space. Keep reading…
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Armenian Genocide museum retail? Yes
I wondered last week if the Armenian Genocide Museum planned for 14th and G will use its existing storefronts for actual retail. According to the HPO staff report that was approved by HPRB last week, the museum will restore the historic storefronts in the building. Steve Callcott of HPO also told me that at least some of the storefronts will actually be retail; HPO is pushing for all of… Keep reading…