Anonymous
09/03/2018 15:17
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lots of sour grapes and haters in this thread. Georgetown is great for what it is - safe, family friendly, walkable, solid by-right public schools. The houses are old, but charming. Lots of fun free activities for our kids at the rec center, pool, and Book Hill Library.
If Georgetown was so awful, then we wouldn’t have all these OOB students from Petworth, Shaw, Cap Hill, etc clamoring for our seats. Also, I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a shoot out in Georgetown, Burleith, or Glover Park. That’s a weekly occurance, per reports on Popville, in EOTP neighborhoods and happened three times in two years within 250 feet of our doorstep on Euclid St NW in CoHi.
Things are turning over right now on Wisconsin. Legacy tenants are getting the boot. There’s a new French bakery opening in a long empty space. Wingo’s Cafe replaced the Fox Taproom. The recent renovation of the Glover Park Hotel was very successful and Casolare is packed. The new Trader Joe’s and high end condos is ahead of schedule. Changes are happening quickly.
Most of the things you mentioned are in Glover Park... GP is not the same as Georgetown, and thank goodness for that.
Wingo's, Casolare, and the new TJ's are/will be mostly for locals... and that's fine with me.
PP just proved all of our points. The day that WINGOS became a draw for Georgetown is the day we can all agree its gone downhill.
For those who don't know, Wingos is the best fried wing place WOTP. Draw of college students and drunks.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 14:46
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
This is dumb. I don't want cheap clothes from Amazon. Look at the studies, people do indeed still shop retail.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 12:27
Subject: Re:Georgetown closed stores
To me the parking and traffic situation in GTown is awful. I will park at the waterfront because I can get there with accessing M Street. The construction has made it go from bad to worse too. Not my cup of tea.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 12:08
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote: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)
It wasn't just high end. Georgetown was high end and funky at the same time. Commander Salamander was one of my favorite stores. When those types of stores started to leave, there was no reason to go to Georgetown. I can go to a high end store in other parts of the city. I like some of the high end designer stores, but I don't need to go to Georgetown for a chain store.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 12:07
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is no metro because of the soil and old structures. Not by choice.
Did you just move here? Of course it was because residents didn't want it there.
OMG. This has been discussed. Not true.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 12:04
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:There is no metro because of the soil and old structures. Not by choice.
Did you just move here? Of course it was because residents didn't want it there.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:53
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
I just read an article that Amazon is at the top of the "Dirty Dozen" list for bad safety practices and treating their floor employees terribly. Not all of us are slaves to Prime.
Ok, you and 3 other hens, will keep storefronts alive and well. Have fun shopping at Chicos in Bethesda. [/quote
You buy your clothes from Amazon? Gross.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:51
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
I just read an article that Amazon is at the top of the "Dirty Dozen" list for bad safety practices and treating their floor employees terribly. Not all of us are slaves to Prime.
Ok, great, Chicos in Bethesda will be around for awhile.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:50
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
I just read an article that Amazon is at the top of the "Dirty Dozen" list for bad safety practices and treating their floor employees terribly. Not all of us are slaves to Prime.
Ok, you and 3 other hens, will keep storefronts alive and well. Have fun shopping at Chicos in Bethesda.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:47
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
I just read an article that Amazon is at the top of the "Dirty Dozen" list for bad safety practices and treating their floor employees terribly. Not all of us are slaves to Prime.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:45
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote:Lots of sour grapes and haters in this thread. Georgetown is great for what it is - safe, family friendly, walkable, solid by-right public schools. The houses are old, but charming. Lots of fun free activities for our kids at the rec center, pool, and Book Hill Library.
If Georgetown was so awful, then we wouldn’t have all these OOB students from Petworth, Shaw, Cap Hill, etc clamoring for our seats. Also, I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a shoot out in Georgetown, Burleith, or Glover Park. That’s a weekly occurance, per reports on Popville, in EOTP neighborhoods and happened three times in two years within 250 feet of our doorstep on Euclid St NW in CoHi.
Things are turning over right now on Wisconsin. Legacy tenants are getting the boot. There’s a new French bakery opening in a long empty space. Wingo’s Cafe replaced the Fox Taproom. The recent renovation of the Glover Park Hotel was very successful and Casolare is packed. The new Trader Joe’s and high end condos is ahead of schedule. Changes are happening quickly.
Most of the things you mentioned are in Glover Park... GP is not the same as Georgetown, and thank goodness for that.
Wingo's, Casolare, and the new TJ's are/will be mostly for locals... and that's fine with me.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:42
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
People dont shoshop in retail stores anymore. It's funny that all you old hens are clucking on and on about busses WOTP, EOTP, and other nonsense. Get with the times. Of course stores are closing. It's 2018. We have Amazon now.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:37
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Lots of sour grapes and haters in this thread. Georgetown is great for what it is - safe, family friendly, walkable, solid by-right public schools. The houses are old, but charming. Lots of fun free activities for our kids at the rec center, pool, and Book Hill Library.
If Georgetown was so awful, then we wouldn’t have all these OOB students from Petworth, Shaw, Cap Hill, etc clamoring for our seats. Also, I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a shoot out in Georgetown, Burleith, or Glover Park. That’s a weekly occurance, per reports on Popville, in EOTP neighborhoods and happened three times in two years within 250 feet of our doorstep on Euclid St NW in CoHi.
Things are turning over right now on Wisconsin. Legacy tenants are getting the boot. There’s a new French bakery opening in a long empty space. Wingo’s Cafe replaced the Fox Taproom. The recent renovation of the Glover Park Hotel was very successful and Casolare is packed. The new Trader Joe’s and high end condos is ahead of schedule. Changes are happening quickly.
If Georgetown was so awful, then we wouldn’t have all these OOB students from Petworth, Shaw, Cap Hill, etc clamoring for our seats. Also, I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a shoot out in Georgetown, Burleith, or Glover Park. That’s a weekly occurance, per reports on Popville, in EOTP neighborhoods and happened three times in two years within 250 feet of our doorstep on Euclid St NW in CoHi.
Things are turning over right now on Wisconsin. Legacy tenants are getting the boot. There’s a new French bakery opening in a long empty space. Wingo’s Cafe replaced the Fox Taproom. The recent renovation of the Glover Park Hotel was very successful and Casolare is packed. The new Trader Joe’s and high end condos is ahead of schedule. Changes are happening quickly.
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:24
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
Anonymous wrote: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??
Other residential neighborhoods in DC have no significant retail and are safe or even safer than Georgetown. Tell me, for the first time, exactly WHY Georgetown has to have a retail strip at all?
Anonymous
09/03/2018 11:15
Subject: Georgetown closed stores
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.
Then you’re a moron. Because the loss of significant retail will absolutely affect your property value.
I don't care about that. This is a family home and I don't need the money.
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