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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.

Sidewalks are too narrow and crowded with tourists and teens. Parking is horrible and expensive. I’d rather go to the Bloomingdales and Anthropology, Sephora , J Crew at Chevy Chase/ Mazza Gallery.

Not accessible and too crowded (with obnoxious tourists). Also, as you are jostling said obnoxious tourists for a little square of sidewalk, you get the lovely views of the hundreds of cars riding bumper to bumper trying to get onto the Key Bridge and all accompanying fumes. Fun times.

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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.

At least five bus lines go through there regularly, including the Circulator. Get off your high horse and take the bus, people!

I was thinking of metro. I actually do take the bus, G2 stops in front of my house, but there are some crazy people on the bus, just saying.

There are crazy people on Metro train too. And you're stuck in an underground tunnel with them.

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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.

At least five bus lines go through there regularly, including the Circulator. Get off your high horse and take the bus, people!

I was thinking of metro. I actually do take the bus, G2 stops in front of my house, but there are some crazy people on the bus, just saying.

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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.

Georgetown has been killing itself since the 1960s while steadily refusing to have a major metro system. 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 quickly.

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.

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.

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.

Why does Georgetown have to be a retail / shopping hot spot? Why can't it just be a residential neighborhood? Things change in this city. The hot spots have shifted to the east. Don't just tell me it will affect property values.

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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.

Nothing defensive in that post, is there? LOL.

There is no metro because of the soil and old structures. Not by choice.

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.

Georgetown has been killing itself since the 1960s while steadily refusing to have a major metro system. 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 quickly.

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 EOTP - 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 EOTP every night for good food or shopping. But if they don't wake up, that's what they will be dealing with.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

At least five bus lines go through there regularly, including the Circulator. Get off your high horse and take the bus, people!

The Circulator is doesn't pick up at enough stops and high traffic areas. At least one of those lines into Georgetown picks up less than .1 mile from my place but I don't take it. Why? It means 7+ stops and 40-minutes added to my cross-city commute and it doesn't come often enough because people don't take the bus to out-of-the-way Georgetown.

The Circulator on Wisconsin stops like every two blocks. The always packed 30 line buses that run through there run all the way from Friendship Heights to Capitol Hill (and further), so those run through Georgetown no matter what. The D2, D6, and G2 run from Dupont to Georgetown. Plus there are bikeshares, Uber, Lyft, and taxis.

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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.

At least five bus lines go through there regularly, including the Circulator. Get off your high horse and take the bus, people!

The Circulator is doesn't pick up at enough stops and high traffic areas. At least one of those lines into Georgetown picks up less than .1 mile from my place but I don't take it. Why? It means 7+ stops and 40-minutes added to my cross-city commute and it doesn't come often enough because people don't take the bus to out-of-the-way Georgetown.

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.

How would the suburban psychos get on 66 then without barreling down M Street?

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.

At least five bus lines go through there regularly, including the Circulator. Get off your high horse and take the bus, people!