4/3/00: Food news: Tryst owners plan a late-night diner at 2453 18th st (now an auto parts store, a few doors south of Tryst). San Marzano - a cool pizza joint - is coming to G'town (3282 M) and is considering Dupont - please come! G'town could also get its own Marvellous Market. Alberto's is leaving current P St spot by Fresh Fields to the 2100 block of P. Jim Abdo now owns 7-11 at 14th & Rhode Island and hopes to turn it into an outdoor cafe. Owners of Luna & Skewers will open new rest. in new Residence Inn on P - to be called Mimi's. Minneapolis-based Caribou Coffee is actively searching for locations in the D.C. area - tell them to open on U St/14th! (see http://www.caribou-coffee.com/main.cfm) Uptown Bakers will renovate an old Ace Hardware store in NE DC and open a 19,000-sq.ft., 24-hour production facility, more than tripling the size of its two current locations combined. (from WBJ) Shopping news: In addition to the 4-story flagship Borders coming to 14th & F (sharing the old Garfinkle's spot with new American cuisine rest. "Butterfield 9"), and the Barnes & Noble coming to 12th & E, Borders will have another store in the yet- to-be-built Gallery Place, on H & 7th. Filene's Dupont location will re-open this month. Bethesda is getting an Expo Design Center in its old Hechinger site. NoMa is inching towards reality with the signing of Enron Broadband (though it's mostly comm. equipment and not people, it does help the techy-reputation of NoMa). From DCCAAlrt: The effect of the Dupont Circle CORE area is that "anyone arrested within a 5 block radius of the circle and order[ed] by the Courts as part of their release to stay away from the circle, they can be arrested for merely being in the designated CORE area while the case is pending." [ed. note: the actual border area is not actually a 5-block radius] Burglaries for March 2000 were down 12.5 % from March 99. Robberies remained the same (7 per month), and theft from autos went down 65%. Paul Williams reports (via CSNA) that "the U Street Historic District Review Committee will have a meeting next Tuesday, April 11 at 8 pm at the Saloon (1207 U Street), to review two fairly large projects currently up for review for the April HP Review Board; new condo/apartment in the 1400 block of Florida Avenue, and a parking schematic. All are welcome to attend!" Paul also reports the following: "The Liquor Store at the corner of 12th and U Street that has been a source of problems for so long was closed by the owner of the building (Mike Noorishad from Mike's Chicken at 1110 U Street) and will be cleaned out soon. We all owe Mike a big thanks, so stop by tonight for some chicken and say thanks! His efforts will single-handedly clean up the vagrants and panhandlers that used that corner and the store." The under-construction Visions theatre has a cool Web site: http://www.visionsdc.com Greg Lief has some great photos of Dupont & DC at http://www.teleport.com/~greglief/photos_dc.shtml There's a nifty artistic view of 17th St at http://www.killyourtv.com/art/building.html Also found some cool local history with photos at http://www.arch.virginia.edu/dcplaces/massave/seg2/dupontpag.htm As always, you are welcome to pass this note along to your friends. Comments, suggestions, tips and GOSSIP are always welcome! Michael http://www.announce.com/khein/dupont/ |