Georgetown closed stores

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Anonymous wrote:I have always loved Georgetown and was shocked to see many closed up/empty stores. Within two blocks there are 6 empty/closed up stores including Restoration Hardware. Does anyone know what is going on?

what is there to love in Georgetown? I am serious. the restaurants suck, its all tourists or students. The sidewalks are too narrow, parking impossible and no metro. Traffic is gridlock and the remaining store are uninteresting chains.

I take it you haven't read this whole thread. And that you're relatively new to DC. Georgetown used to be THE place to go.

This. It was practically the only place in D.C. to get luxury goods or organic groceries (especially prior to the 2000 opening of the P Street Whole Foods EOTP).

What? You really think people went to Georgetown for goodwill shopping?

The fact that you went straight from luxury goods and organic groceries to Goodwill is hilarious. As if there is no in-between. #luxuryorbust!

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Anonymous wrote:I have always loved Georgetown and was shocked to see many closed up/empty stores. Within two blocks there are 6 empty/closed up stores including Restoration Hardware. Does anyone know what is going on?

what is there to love in Georgetown? I am serious. the restaurants suck, its all tourists or students. The sidewalks are too narrow, parking impossible and no metro. Traffic is gridlock and the remaining store are uninteresting chains.

I take it you haven't read this whole thread. And that you're relatively new to DC. Georgetown used to be THE place to go.

This. It was practically the only place in D.C. to get luxury goods or organic groceries (especially prior to the 2000 opening of the P Street Whole Foods EOTP).

RIP Annie Creamcheese

What? You really think people went to Georgetown for goodwill shopping?

The fact that you went straight from luxury goods and organic groceries to Goodwill is hilarious. As if there is no in-between. #luxuryorbust!

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Well you may not need the money, but you might care about your safety. With urban decay comes increased crime. It can already be sketchy in that one stretch of O street. Imagine that being all of getowhtown

What stretch of O Street is sketchy?

On Wisconsin and O

You have got to be kidding me.

Why? The empty stores and homeless people around CVS ARE sketchy!

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Well you may not need the money, but you might care about your safety. With urban decay comes increased crime. It can already be sketchy in that one stretch of O street. Imagine that being all of getowhtown

What stretch of O Street is sketchy?

On Wisconsin and O

You have got to be kidding me.

Why? The empty stores and homeless people around CVS ARE sketchy!

Yeah, I remember that Roy's on O Street back in the day...learned a lot about surviving on the streets from the vagrants that used to hang out there. The big learn: when you shop at Roy's, always, and I mean always, raid the fixins bar for extra roughage.

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Anonymous wrote:I have always loved Georgetown and was shocked to see many closed up/empty stores. Within two blocks there are 6 empty/closed up stores including Restoration Hardware. Does anyone know what is going on?

what is there to love in Georgetown? I am serious. the restaurants suck, its all tourists or students. The sidewalks are too narrow, parking impossible and no metro. Traffic is gridlock and the remaining store are uninteresting chains.

I take it you haven't read this whole thread. And that you're relatively new to DC. Georgetown used to be THE place to go.

This. It was practically the only place in D.C. to get luxury goods or organic groceries (especially prior to the 2000 opening of the P Street Whole Foods EOTP).

DP - but why the eye roll? that's what Georgetown was known as back in the day - a place for upscale retail. I mentioned it up thread as well. It wasn't snotty or anything,it's just the way it was back then.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a Walden bookstore and a Hallmark store and a flower shop too in the bottom of Gtown Park. So sad.

Used to hit up the El Torito for half priced margs and 50 cent tacos for HH!

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Has Georgetown ALWAYS had a snooty shabby chic vibe?

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Anonymous wrote:Can I still spend a few thou on a guido suit? There used to be a few of those places, they never got much foot traffic but they seemed to stay in business.

This was years ago, but one of those places sold the best coke at the best prices. Dunno if it's still the case.

Hahahaaaaa!! Like nose candy or Coca Cola?

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https://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2018/09/18/wisconsin-ave-reaches-new-heights-in-vacancy/

"Wisconsin Ave. in Georgetown is more and more a ghost town these days. The level of vacant storefronts along the street through Georgetown is surely near or at an all-time high. And it just seems to keep getting worse."

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Anonymous wrote:So few bars and restaurants left. So very sad. What an odd, EuroSlimey place it has become.

It was getting to be Eurotrashy by the end of the ‘80s!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but who remembers Smash?? Hard to believe Georgetown was a bastion of the DC punk scene.

And Commander Salamander of course. Do you remember Olsson's Books and Records on Wisconsin, kind of where the Apple Store is now? It seemed everyone who worked there had a nose ring and they were always playing Fugazi.

Yes! And the Biograph, of course. There was a second theatre as well that played foreign and indie films. Used to go every Sunday afternoon - those were the days! They are making a movie about Commander Salamander - or Gtown in the punk days.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but who remembers Smash?? Hard to believe Georgetown was a bastion of the DC punk scene.

And Commander Salamander of course. Do you remember Olsson's Books and Records on Wisconsin, kind of where the Apple Store is now? It seemed everyone who worked there had a nose ring and they were always playing Fugazi.

Yes! And the Biograph, of course. There was a second theatre as well that played foreign and indie films. Used to go every Sunday afternoon - those were the days! They are making a movie about Commander Salamander - or Gtown in the punk days.

The Key, where my edgy young self could take in the annual “Festival of Animation” and similar.

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I don’t know much about Georgetown. Is it less desirable to live at than it used to be?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know much about Georgetown. Is it less desirable to live at than it used to be?

I think it’s more desirable to live there now because people have returned to urban living, and Georgetown overall is nicer than it used to be (I’m comparing it to the 70s, 80s). The whole development on the river, for example, is a huge improvement.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but who remembers Smash?? Hard to believe Georgetown was a bastion of the DC punk scene.

And Commander Salamander of course. Do you remember Olsson's Books and Records on Wisconsin, kind of where the Apple Store is now? It seemed everyone who worked there had a nose ring and they were always playing Fugazi.

Yes! And the Biograph, of course. There was a second theatre as well that played foreign and indie films. Used to go every Sunday afternoon - those were the days! They are making a movie about Commander Salamander - or Gtown in the punk days.

Is a movie really being made about Commander Salamander? The store was recreated for filming the Wonder Woman sequel.