The Occidental and The Watergate are taking their cues from the early days of mixology.
The unidentified 65-to-75-year-old woman’s body was recovered earlier this month.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified female in the Potomac River today.
It’s been just under a year since PB Capital Corp. picked up the aging Watergate Hotel at foreclosure auction for $25 million, and now it looks like that price was indeed right. This week, PB Capital finalized the sale of the 251-room property to New York-based Euro Capital Properties Inc. for a cool $45 million, Melissa Castro reports in the Washington Business Journal. The new owner’s previous hotel experience in the area includes the…
PB Capital Corp. agreed to purchase The Watergate Hotel today for $25 million at foreclosure auction, after submitting the one and only bid (via The Washington Business Journal and Housing Complex). Developer Monument Realty, which had to abandon its plans to renovate the hotel after lending markets collapsed, actually owed $40 million to PB Capital, making the sale something of an indicator of these strange financial times. Monument co-founder Michael Darby was reportedly on…
It was late summer of 2007 when the old Watergate Hotel sold off all its contents amid a massive renovation effort, with plans to reopen as something fancier, newer, or at least less shabby. But then, of course, the bottom fell out of the financial markets, and it seems the long-delayed plans for construction are finally abandoned. The hotel is going on the auction block on Tuesday, the Post reports. The hotel’s owner, Monument…
The public sale of anything and everything once found inside the famous Watergate Hotel, which is currently undergoing a massive renovation, began at 10 a.m. this morning, and by 11 a.m. it was already a circus of people rushing through the different floors, grabbing anything they could get their hands on while hundreds of other hopeful buyers stood waiting out in the hot sun. More than 300 people have already been let inside, and…
>> The Watergate Hotel will be closed for the next 18 months for a $170 million renovation. [WJLA] >> D.C. police have arrested a man for shooting into a crowd and wounding seven people last week in Edgewood Terrace. [WaPo] >> An off-duty D.C. police officer exchanged gunfire with men who tried to rob him outside his Landover home this morning as he was leaving for work. [Examiner] >> Missed on Friday: Marion Barry…
Paleo-futuristic indeed. I had to look that up, but the Flickr folks tell me that it “refers to outdated future-visions,” and I suppose the Watergate Hotel applies to such a category. Either way, Flickr user Linus Gelber’s perspective, looking up from the courtyard, and his color adjustment of a black and white exposure certainly turns this four-decade old building into something completely different….
Do you have an iron stomach like Christopher Hitchens? Do you like scotch whisky? Then you may want to consider being part of the 1st Annual Scotch Whisky Festival at the Watergate Hotel, sponsored by TasteDC on Nov. 30. Thanks to DCFoodies to alerting us to this. Though the $75 entry makes this out of reach except to the most die-hard “water of life” fans, there will be 150 scotches, whiskies, cognacs and other spirits…
