Photo by spiggycat

The intersection of 7th and H Streets NW in Chinatown has to be one of the best retail spots in the entire city in terms of foot traffic, yet the boarded up windows at the large building on the northeast corner remain, over two years since the CVS that used to live in the ground floor closed. Back then, we were told to expect a renovated CVS in 2010, but as the Washington Business Journal explained last Friday, the “Gallery Square” construction project appears indefinitely stalled, bogged down in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that were finally filed on Nov. 16, just a day before the entire building was meant to go up for sale at a foreclosure auction. So don’t expect to see that new CVS, or anything else in the building, anytime particularly soon.