Good evening, neighbors! Hope your March is going well.
By the way, if you need more COVID tests to have on hand, you can order them through the US Postal Service, as they’ve been approved to send out a second round. Click here to order.
A tearful farewell for Mott’s Market moved many neighbors in the area south of Lincoln Park. A fixture for decades, they decided to close their doors due to rising rent and business slowing down. Hill Rag
When one door closes, another one opens with a clever Instagram reel: Mason and Greens is jumping across the Potomac and coming to the former Baskin Robbins/Dunkin’ Donuts spot, 801 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. It appears that they will be aiming for an early summer opening. Mason and Greens is a “grocer of sustainable goods,” per their own description. So get ready for some chia pudding and shampoo bars, folks. And we’ll let the “Capital” Hill slide, because we’re so happy this space is finally going to be occupied again.
You know your Capitol Hill home listing is not an ordinary one when it is featured on the Wall Street Journal. Of course, listed at over $3 million after a $1M renovation, it’s not an ordinary story either.
Neighbors have sent in messages of concern regarding the no parking signs spread out “all over, everywhere” on Capitol Hill, as one worried but not very precise neighbor communicated to us. As it turns out, there is a large DC Water project that will prevent parking along Constitution Avenue and A Street NE, from 2nd to 9th Streets NE, and the project will last through June of 2023 (Yes, that’s right– 15 months). It appears close-in neighbors got letters from DC Water regarding the project– but not everyone did.
Although it looks like a bomb cyclone may be headed our way on Saturday, with rain, strong winds and some of the coldest air in weeks (Capital Weather Gang), we got a taste of the good life earlier in the week, with sensual warm breezes and short-sleeve weather: the perfect weather to enjoy dinner al fresco by the riverside (before our tiny local wildlife makes the prospect awful, anyway). Washingtonian helpfully rounded up some lovely spots, so we can read and weep.
Capitol Hill Corner remembers Donna Scheeder, who passed away earlier this month from cancer. Scheeder was “Ward 6 Councilmember’s appointee to – and chair of – EMCAC. She was also a founding member of the Hill Center Board of Directors and most recently took an active role in the advisory task force for the redesign of Eastern Market Metro Plaza Park and children’s playground.” Our neighborhood is a better place to live thanks to her. May she rest in peace.
In a style that only Washington City Paper can pull off, the publication has put together a masterful, shameful and incredibly informative list of District agencies that can participate in this year’s Big Dunce– a March Madness tournament to see which of our government agencies is the most incompetent of all. It’s safe to say there are no winners here.
The Hill Rag shares highlights from the Ward 6 Task Force working on revamping SMDs. The next task force meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 15.
PoPville shares a reader report about Seven Twenty One, a new convenience store coming to the former 7-Eleven spot in the 700 block of H Street NE. Of course, Seven Twenty One is not just a random number– it’s the address of the place. Very clever.
The Buckeye Institute shares a Daily Signal podcast featuring the Big Board’s Eric Flannery as he talks about opening his restaurant on H Street NE, and the subsequent fallout from TBB’s defiance of the District’s vaccine mandate. Ironically, these mandates are no longer in effect and yet TBB’s licenses remain suspended. This is due to multiple other violations found by DC Health. (WCP)