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CB2, the slightly cheaper Crate & Barrel brand store that's aimed at younger, urban customers is looking for a location in D.C., the Washington Business Journal reports. The chain has reportedly been talking to Jeffrey Schonberger, the real estate developer who owns the Central Union Mission building at 1350 R Street NW, at the corner of 14th and R Streets. Central Union has long been in talks with the city to relocate elsewhere, with most recent negotiations focusing on the empty Gales School at 65 Massachusetts Ave. NW. CB2 has also reportedly been looking at other properties, but should it move into the 14th and R space, it would join the forthcoming Room & Board at 14th and T along with existing furniture stores like Vastu, Muleh and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, creating a sort of furniture corridor along that stretch of 14th.
Crate & Barrel's CB2 Looking for Space in D.C.
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Wow, a trendy furniture corridor. Like a North/South M Street in the miDCity! It's just a fro-yo and a starbucks away...
From peepee-soaked heck hole to yuppie gulag furniture establishment, this is truly change we can believe in!
Look out, Hammock District! The $10k Leather Couch Corridor is about to steal your thunder!
i wanted to comment on this but saw the american apparel ads and completely forgot what i was going to say.
What/Where in hell is Lincoln Square? Are they referring to the store downtown, near Metro Center? There sure ain't an American Apparel in the middle of Capitol Hill...
Apparently it's their store downtown, in the Metro Center/Penn Quarter area. Why they call it Lincoln Square is beyond me...
"Lincoln Square" sounds like another one of these realtor-attempts to re-brand a neighborhood. Like calling Gallery Place "Penn Quarter" or Upper Swampoodle "NoMa" or Bloomingdale "BloMe" or Colostomy Falls "Shaw" or Pizzavomitpisstown "Columbia Heights" or Ivy City "Liveable."
Lincoln Square is a cool neighborhood in Chicago. They have an awesome brauhaus with excellent German food, a somewhat overpriced Viennese bakery with delicious cakes, some great independent coffeehouses, a well-stocked used CD store, and a bunch of other good restaurants and funky shops.
In other words, all the things DC utterly lacks.
I hope they sell hammocks.
I bet you that American Apparel sells banana hammocks, probably in gold lame spandex. Classy!
If there's any city in need of more spandex, it's DC.
Four hammocks, you've got four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third. There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third, too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There. That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
You know? There is little place called Mary Ann's Hammocks. The nice thing about that place is Mary Ann gets in the hammock with you
Hank: By the way, Homer, what's your least favorite country, Italy or France?
Homer: France.
Hank: [chuckles] Nobody ever says Italy.
I'm guilty of being a CB2 fanboy. Solid prices - $900 sofas and $2 old fashioned glasses with great design. Can not wait for them to be on 14th street corridor.
$900 sofas?! I just bought one for $25 on craigslist. Being a cheap bastard is awesome.
He's right. Just ask our wives!
"Can't afford condoms this week, honey. Where's the Saran Wrap? Or maybe you could just swallow! HA! HA! HA!"
JUNKPUNCH
Yess! Even better are the curbside eviction sales (=free) that seem to be all the rage these days.
Gotta make sure those sofas aren't infested with crabs, which actually make great pets. The primary advantage being that you can leave them in front of Whole Foods and not risk 255 commenters calling you a bastard. I'd say that's worth the infestation.
Molly!
Well maybe these big stores haven't heard but Waterfront Station in Southwest will be ready for retail tenants soon. And if I have anything to do with it, there won't be an American Apparel within 25 miles.
Fine then. It's gonna be all Waldenbooks, The Dress Barn, a shoe repair shop, an D.C. DMV office, a 7-11 transplanted from M St. & S. Capitol, and perhaps a guy selling bootleg Nats merchandise out of the trunk of his car for you! What? You were all aspirant for a Whole Foods, an H&M, and a Melting Pot?
I forgot to mention that Zanzibar will be moving in to Waterfront Station, complete with neon palm tree.
Oh Lord Baby Jesus, not the Dress Barn. Who wants to buy clothing out of a damn barn?
Dress Barn is pretty godawful. Which is why they're aiming at younger, urban customers with their rebranded Dress Sty and Dress Trough stores. And even though everything looks like a muumuu, they don't carry a size bigger than two. When that happens, you know a wizard did it.
Wizzy,
Why you gotta be such a hater on AA? Just because they use anorexic hipster models, have a lothario pervert CEO who hires illegal labor and sells overpriced, poorly constructed clothing? Too bad fmr. Supreme Court justice Souter has left his digs in SW (he got out of DC actually, never to look back--I say good for him), because he could have benefitted from purchasing some stretch corduroy pants from a Waterfront Station American Apparel location.
No hate ... I'm just feeling very bloated today, that's all.
Folk Music. No
Rock n' Roll. No
Jazz. No
Blue Grass. No
Ragtime!
Swine!
Oink.
Molly!
Ruff!
I poop on Crate & Barrel all the time, but their Old Town Outlet has some pretty sweet deals and it's a block from the Metro. I picked up a $12 Sankotu knife that makes both my Heinkels and Wüstof knives look like a pile of Nazi regalia, which makes no sense as all THREE brands are made in China, probably in the same damn factory. It's just that I'm paying $80 less for something that cuts better. So if this CB2 place can provide a cost-effective way for kids to stab eachother to death, I say, "Gemütlikeit!" But if they're just going to sell more $10k leather couches, they're worse than Hitler.
You're gonna be paying slightly less for furniture that is best described as primary color meets apopleptic seizure.
i kind of like cb2 :/
So isn't CB2 the prequel to CB4? Because that would be awesome!
"Any person who would defile America's pastime by wearing a baseball cap backwards... well, that's an evil that speaks for itself!"
Man, turn around and eat yo' Big Ass Biscuit!
CB4: So intense, it skipped over CB3
I like CB2, and in these economic times, it is good to see any new business. Especially from a company that has a history of thoughtful investment.
Good riddance to the urine smells outside the Central Union Mission.
So they've replaced the urine smell with Hugo Boss and Tag Body Spray. Is there really that much difference?
Yeah, the alleyway between the Mission and the Anna Cooper House being used as an open toilet won't be missed. But honestly, the Mission have been good neighbors. The area is generally clean and well-maintained, and aside from the line of people waiting to get in durin gthe early afternoon you rarely see loiterers outside. I'm not clamoring for a homeless shelter in the area, but they've been very responsible.
CB4: So intense, it skipped over CB3
Sell when it gets to CB6.
I enjoy CB2. Did they name it after that Chris Rock movie?