Anyone who has spent time attending neighborhood association meetings in much of D.C. knows that 99.5 percent of the topics discussed there tend to revolve around the basic conceit that residents want a say in the kinds of businesses that are near them. More often than not that means putting pressure on existing businesses to operate in certain ways, but without a doubt a major topic of conversation at the meetings we’ve attended is also, how can we get the kinds of new businesses we really want and need to open?

Blogger about town Prince of Petworth spied this novel approach to recruiting a specific kind of business on 14th Street in Columbia Heights. Think it’ll work? What kinds of businesses are you constantly wishing were in your neighborhood?

Photo by Prince of Petworth