The Washington Post’s D.C. Wire has the item on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s new re-election headquarters in Ward 4. While Mayor Fenty set up his war tent on Florida Avenue near U Street NW for his successful 2006 mayoral bid, he’s going back to roots in 2010.

A former Ward 4 council member, Mayor Fenty set up shop in a vacant Chevrolet dealership in his old stomping grounds. In an email message to supporters, Mayor Fenty said that the official opening at 5929 Georgia Avenue NW will take place on April 10. The news has not yet hit Mayor Fenty’s re-election Web site.

Once a full dealership with an on-site body shop, family-owned Curtis Chevy folded after proprietor Dudley Dworken entered into a partnership with Rockville-based developer Foulger-Pratt Development Inc. to turn the space into a mixed-use residential and retail space, according to the Washington Business Journal. The new site is a might bit larger than his first campaign headquarters at 8th Street and Florida Avenue NW, perhaps reflecting the necessary shift in strategy from mounting an outside bid for the mayoralty to defending it as an incumbent.

His Brightwood office is also a good ways away from his office in the Wilson Building. By Google’s count, it’s around 5 miles from one to the other. Mayor Fenty will no doubt be taking bicycle back and forth, so he’ll want to take 11th Street NW for most of the ride, according to Google’s beta bicycle filter. Sadly, Sherman Avenue 2.0 will not have launched in time for Mayor Fenty to get any use out of it.

It is a bit of a hike back and forth, isn’t it? Realistically, he may not need to spend a great deal of time physically present at campaign headquarters, and he never tells District residents where he’s going in any case. Think the commute is going to cut into his mayor-ing?