Georgetown closed stores

[Anonymous]

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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?

walk around manhattan and you say an absurd number of closed up store fronts.

Was going to say the same. The upper east side is a ghost town as is most of the city. In fact, the NYT had a whole section on this today.

Link? Not coming up online.

[Anonymous]

I hate Georgetown. The traffic and parking are horrible. Maybe I would go more if I didn't have to fight the traffic and spend 30 minutes looking for parking. Hate it when my kids have a birthday party in g-town!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

Plus the rats.

Only accessible by car. Blocking metro was the biggest mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate Georgetown. The traffic and parking are horrible. Maybe I would go more if I didn't have to fight the traffic and spend 30 minutes looking for parking. Hate it when my kids have a birthday party in g-town!

Yep, a Kindergarten parents had a birthday party there. Traffic & parking was a big pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate Georgetown. The traffic and parking are horrible. Maybe I would go more if I didn't have to fight the traffic and spend 30 minutes looking for parking. Hate it when my kids have a birthday party in g-town!

Yep, a Kindergarten parents had a birthday party there. Traffic & parking was a big pain.

Where was the birthday party? Looking for ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate Georgetown. The traffic and parking are horrible. Maybe I would go more if I didn't have to fight the traffic and spend 30 minutes looking for parking. Hate it when my kids have a birthday party in g-town!

Yep, a Kindergarten parents had a birthday party there. Traffic & parking was a big pain.

Where was the birthday party? Looking for ideas.

Exorcist staircase.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown used to have stores that were the only branch in the area and these were often higher end shops. I remember when there was a stand alone Betsy Johnson store and a Polo store for example.
Then came the Tyson's II and the strip mall across from Tyson's with higher end retail and duplicate shops,
Then by the time those were fizzling out, the internet stepped in.
So what made Georgetown a destination before was no longer viable. They could recapture some of this by reaching out to more unique retailers, making smaller foot print shops to reduce costs, and getting more independant and unique businesses ( again building landlords need to be far more reasonable on rent)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

Plus the rats.

Only accessible by car. Blocking metro was the biggest mistake.

No one "blocked" Metro in Georgetown:

http://www.welovedc.com/2009/10/13/dc-mythbusting-georgetown-metro-stop/

Good lord, people still believe that old wives tale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

Plus the rats.

Only accessible by car. Blocking metro was the biggest mistake.

Enough with the urban myth, already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

Plus the rats.

Only accessible by car. Blocking metro was the biggest mistake.

Enough with the urban myth, already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

I don't care about the stores in Georgetown. The tourists rarely venture off M and Wisconsin. Georgetown is still a beautiful place to live. Let the retail go away; no one who lives there cares. In fact we want it gone. Leave us Dumbarton Oaks, Stachowski's, and our gorgeous streets and homes.

Come for the TJ Maxx, WaWa and homeless people. Stay for the gorgeous homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

I don't care about the stores in Georgetown. The tourists rarely venture off M and Wisconsin. Georgetown is still a beautiful place to live. Let the retail go away; no one who lives there cares. In fact we want it gone. Leave us Dumbarton Oaks, Stachowski's, and our gorgeous streets and homes.

Come for the TJ Maxx, WaWa and homeless people. Stay for the gorgeous homes.

You don't have to come at all. Just leave us alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel sad for Georgetown. In my 20s I used to love walking around there, shopping and spending time. I have lived in Shaw for 15 years and the shift of retail and restaurants eastward has been dramatic and inexorable. I would love to see Georgetown get its mojo back. I wonder if it might be a good idea to make the shopping streets pedestrian or bike only, but of course there’s not enough public transportation options to make that feasible.

I agree. Gtown used to be fun and fashionable and made for a nice night out. Now in comparison to some other newly developed as thriving neighborhoods Georgetown is just mostly sad. ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is nothing new. Stores go in and out of that stretch of Wisconsin all the time... especially further up.

Renovation Hardware *gasp* is going to become a Wawa.

Ummm, do you hear yourself? Replacing RH with a Wawa is a good thing?!?! No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Touristy, trashy, traffic (that’s it for the alliteration) and ruined by air plane noise.

I don't care about the stores in Georgetown. The tourists rarely venture off M and Wisconsin. Georgetown is still a beautiful place to live. Let the retail go away; no one who lives there cares. In fact we want it gone. Leave us Dumbarton Oaks, Stachowski's, and our gorgeous streets and homes.

Come for the TJ Maxx, WaWa and homeless people. Stay for the gorgeous homes.

You don't have to come at all. Just leave us alone.

Let me get this straight. You think Georgetown will be just as safe if all of the retail closes or turns into lower tier retail??