Posts about Retail
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Downtown’s zoning: How the best of downtown came to be
The area around Gallery Place and Metro Center was once nearly empty at night, full of surface parking and run-down buildings, and quite Keep reading…
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Metro exploring retail in rail stations
Metro officials plan to solicit proposals from potential vendors to operate retail kiosks in at least twelve Metro stations, according to a presentation they showed the Riders’ Advisory Council last night. The plan is in its very early stages, but staff have identified a set of stations that have high enough ridership to potentially support retail, but also have enough space… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: The future of sitting, driving, biking
New BART seating strategy; Road pricing: the time is now; Look at all the traffic; Road closures and parking divide Eastern Market; German city more neighborly; Arlington needs a few good counters; Some Fairfax Connector buses raise fare to $7; Give the robot your bike. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: Haje’s Restaurant
In 1926, Charles J. Haje, a native of Lebanon, started the Haje’s Restaurant chain in Washington. His son, Jack, pioneered the first motorcycle deliveries of cooked chicken by the five restaurants in the area. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Then and Now and Future: Park View/Petworth commercial corner
Then: Photographed in March, 1965, the southwest corner of Georgia Avenue and New Hampshire, NW. The store on the corner is the Orchid Dry Cleaners. (Historical Society of Washington, Emil A. Press Slide Collection, Buildings at the intersection of Georgia and New Hampshire Avenues NW, #PR 1086A). Now: This lot has been vacant at least since Metro initiated construction… Keep reading…
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Balancing neighborhood retail, part 2: Incentives and supply
Yesterday, we discussed DC’s current 25% linear-foot cap on restaurant and bar uses in some neighborhood commercial districts. Prohbiting restaurants is one possible tool for ensuring that restaurants don’t completely push out other businesses. What other techniques could accomplish the same goal? Keep reading…
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Balancing neighborhood retail, part 1: The 25% rule
Fostering a diverse range of retail in a neighborhood commercial area is a difficult balancing act. DC has tried several techniques for managing this balance, including limiting the frontage devoted to restaurants, limiting liquor licenses, and offering bonuses to new development that contains certain uses. Keep reading…
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When you gotta go, where do you go?
We’ve all been there. You’re out and about, and then suddenly, you need a restroom. When I leave home to go on a walk or run an errand, I keep a mental map of the closest available restrooms. I usually rely on restrooms in commercial businesses, largely because it is difficult to find public restrooms in the District. Access to public restrooms is more than a matter of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…