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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

[b]Georgetown has been killing itself since the 1960s while steadily refusing to have a major metro system. [/b]That worked for a while because it was the ONLY place to get a really nice meal or luxury shopping. But as soon as 2000 hit, sh*t shifted [i]quickly[/i].

They should have been fighting to jumpstart the Georgetown-Rosslyn gondola project like their lives depended on it. Instead it died. https://ggwash.org/view/66774/rosslyn-arlington-virginia-georgetown-dc-gondola-fill-a-real-hole-in-transportation-worth-it

They need a metro station like yesterday or to be the D.C. stop for the Hyperloop but that too is going to WOTP - Union Station (if it gets going).

I don't know if the city had plans to develop the riverwalk along the Georgetown canal or better yet the Potomac River but it should have been a top priority. Instead Waterfront D.C. did what it had to do and is no booming as a result.

Georgetown needs to get its head out of its butt. The foot and car traffic across that bridge is way too much already for the local residents to have to go WOTP every night for good food or shopping. But if they don't wake up, that's what they will be dealing with. [/quote]

No that’s urban myth. The metro was designed to take people to and from work for the people living in the suburbs. The most densely populated areas of the city do not have metro access. Georgetown does not have a metro for a few reasons. First it does not have density(it’s a pass through area during rush hour), there is not many office building(and never will be because of the restrictions), bedrock is very shallow in the area(cost more to build tunnels) and very limited space. 
The reason businesses are closing is because of the web, lack of parking, high rents, the historic commission(They had a fit about Apple almost did it happen), the small old store fronts are more expensive to operate(problems with truck deliveries, trash pick/rats, lack of storage space/small commercial kitchens) and the restrictions on numbers of places with liquor license. [/quote]

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