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- A U.S. District court judge ruled today that Franklin Shelter advocates have to take their case to the D.C. Court of Appeals, Darryl Fears reports in the Post, further delaying any chance they might have to reopen the building as a shelter before the city manages to sell it.
- Unsuck DC Metro quotes purported wife of MTPD officer worried that those T3 Segway trikes will leave transit police officers "not in a position to draw their weapons to protect themselves or others."
- Prince of Petworth posts Jim Graham letter outlining plan to offer tax relief to organic grocer Ellwood Thompson's, in an effort to help them finally open in Columbia Heights.
- The Downtown Neighborhood Association sounds the alarm that the Penn Quarter farmers market may be in jeopardy thanks to some guy who finds its location inconvenient to his evening commute (hat tip to The Triangle).
- DCmud says a new grocery store could go in at 3rd and H Streets NE.
- And in other grocery story news, Ward3DC points to a new web site for folks who want to follow the construction of the new
SocialTenleytown Safeway.
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Does anyone know about the armed robbery on 13th NW last night in Columbia Heights? The helicopters
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Yo Dcist - the last couple of links about the Social Safeway are for the Tenleytown Safeway project. The Social Safeway is the one currently under construction at the top of Georgetown (34th and Wisconsin).
This is indeed the "Super-Secret Safeway," although after they redesign it, it won't be as secret, since it will no longer look like a bunker.
Holy crap, this is super-secret safeway! I didn't even know it existed. I always thought that secret safeway was the one in the Palisades. So what do we call it once it actually faces Wisconsin? Semi-suburban safeway?
Solution to slow-on-the-draw officers riding Segway trikes: mount a gatling gun on that shit.
If you mounted a gatling gun on a Segway, you'd have to modify the advanced electronics that keep it upright in order to counteract the kickback you get when opening fire.
My Man!! THAT's what I'm talking about!
It's too bad that Safeway would not pursue a project that included housing above the store. Certainly that parcel on Wisconsin Avenue is zoned for 5 floors? I guess the threat of lawsuits and hysteria from the regular cast in that part of town chilled any concept of a more progressive development proposal.
The Safeway referenced here is the 'Secret Safeway,' according to the website. I just hope they don't close this one before they reopen the Social Safeway, so those of us on the Wisc Ave corridor don't have to rely solely on Whole Paycheck and the mini-Giant.
Safeway has guaranteed the ANC a few times that they'll wait on reconstruction until the Georgetown one is open.
Which is good, because it will probably be under construction while the Macomb Giant is under construction/in another lawsuit.
I don't care who you are, you still look like a complete a$$ on that Segway.
Poor Mr. Ken Crerar, president of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers and his problems getting around the Penn Quarter Farmer's Market. I really feel for this guy. Adding 15 minutes to his commute because these "farmers" block 8th Street is outrageous! I say we contact Mr. Ken Crerar, president of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers and ask if we can get the MPD and the Secret Service to clear a path through the streets of the District so he, one; doesn't have to mingle with the unwashed masses, and two; isn't slowed on his way home (driving alone in his car) to have an expensive glass of wine.
So the guy moves to a walkable community and complains that people are walking everywhere and now he's 15 minutes late driving once a freaking month. This happens to all of us. Like the people who move to Dulles and complain about the airplanes, or who move to condos on 18th Street and complain about the bars, or who move to Swampoodle and complain about the noisy CHUD-f**king parties, or who move to H Street and complain about the double-amputees in wheelchairs with shotguns, or who move to 14th Street and complain about the dead bodies in the Jack Off Enthusiast Clubs and having to make donations for chips, dips, and soda. Suck it up, people!
And what you absolutely should not do is look up Ken Crerar's address in White Pages, and you should absolutely not buy several baskets of farm fresh tomatoes and head to Wesley Hieghts and pelt them at his house.
One more thing you shouldn't be doing when you're not throwing tomatoes at Ken Crerar's house is putting a pebble in his car tire's air valve cap.
Don't even think about doing any of these things because it might delay Ken Crerar's trip to his Maine home or some vinyard somewhere and he might write a letter to Obama asking for DC to be moved somewhere else in the mid-Atlantic.
Mr. Crerar is a big fat cry baby. If you see him, ask if his diaper needs to be changed.
what a big fat mess
More wishful thinking about supermarkets on H Street NE from people who brag about their "farmers market" -- with 4 vendors. Get more residents in the area first.
They're getting 200+ units in that building alone. You've also got the air rights over the Union Station tracks that will add hundreds of more units over the next 3 years. Besides, everyone on that side of East Capitol Street does their shopping either at the Potomac Avenue Safeway or the Teeter. The time to push for groceries in that neighborhood is now, not when property values go up.
They're getting 200+ units in that building alone
When they are built -- and occupied -- an H Street supermarket is a reality, not before. No one will build a store that sits empty, waiting for customers to decide to move into the 'hood.
Um, people already live in the neighborhood. It's not like Columbia Heights circa 1970 where every third house is vacant. These are all the people who got priced out of Capitol Hill. They're not exactly charity cases.
There are several new large condo/apartment buildings a couple blocks north of this site. Already built. And of course Senate Square, right next door.
And Monkey is right. There's a huge underserved market on the Hill already. All the folks north of E Cap would most likely visit a supermarket ar 4th and H (assuming it wasn't a suck-ass Safeway) rather than go all the way down to 14th and Penn for the Harris Teeter.
For 'Hill Proper' dwellers there's a big mental dividing line..... they won't go West of North Cap for their shopping, as they don't consider that Cap Hill.
But they would go to 4th and H, particularly if there is parking.
This crowd has $$, and with the huge influx of families with kids, I'd imagine those folks would have big grocery bills, as they got to power up on carbs before using their double strollers as shields as they cross against the light on major Hill streets....