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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is up with Tenleytown? I know that it was not an AU tenant but apparently Tenleytown could not even support a Starbucks on a prime metro location.

Gastropub closed and just sitting boarded up vacant.

Kitty O'Shea's just vacant.

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Young adults are the lifeblood of the bar and restaurant industry, and Tenleytown is about the last place young adults want to live in DC. College students alone can't support those businesses because half of them can't drink legally and the other half doesn't want to hang out in a dingy Irish pub when they could go to a bar that caters to their generation on U St or Adams Morgan.

I grew up in Tenleytown when regular people could still afford to live there, that's why places like Maggie's, Armand's, Round Table, and Babe's could exist.  Now Tenley is a victim of its own success. The only people who can pay $1.5MM for a house there are overworked attorneys and DCUM's famous "if you have more than one drink you're an alcoholic, if you have more than 3 bites of food a day you're a fatty" housewives, neither of which have the time and inclination to frequent bars and restaurants, or at least the kind of restaurants that can exist in Tenleytown.

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Tenleytown is full of young families and kids. That is almost the definition of Tenleytown. Not quite Spring Valley or Cleveland Park (Cathedral area) but totally quaint and family oriented...or at least it was. It is turning almost corporate and strip mall'ey. And there is more to it than the dismissing the closings as "all of the business has gone online". I am starting to doubt the motives of the landlords as well.

You simply cannot explain away the Starbucks closing as there simply were not enough customers. That place was always full. It was filthy but it was full. Someone said it earlier, Johnson's did not want to close, it could not secure a new lease from AU. I am not sure yet what the deal was with Sullivan's. I have heard they were attempting to negotiate a rent payment for some pandemic rent.

As for Gastro Pub and O'Shea's those places were making money hand over fist. The buildings were sold by their owners to developers in accordance with the density goals of DC and Tenleytown. Then the developers froze their projects. The community is left holding the bag and get's to enjoy empty storefronts until the developers decide to let a bank or convenience store move in.[/quote]

You're joking, right? I was a regular at Kitty O'shea's specifically because it was just about the only bar in DC that wasn't crowded on a Friday night, and those few people who were there were drinking $3 Natty Bohs, of which the bartenders only charged you for about half of the ones you actually drank.  They were not making money hand over fist.

And I never said there aren't families there, there certainly are but they're not going to the bars and restaurants. Their nannies are preparing organic whole foods mac and cheese for the kids while mom and dad spend 90 hours a week at work. When they do have a free night they want to go to Masseria or Le Dip, not a neighborhood pizza joint.   [/quote]

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