An out-of-town (just-over- the -bridge) guest at the second annual Hilly Awards sponsored by CHAMPS summed up the look among the many Hillys sparkling attendees Friday night by noting that the women who tried hit it out of the park, and the men looked like they were at least trying. Since I live here, I […]
Barracks Row Main Street’s board has endorsed an unsolicited proposal for the Marine Barracks Washington’s plan to build the proposed Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) on what is known as the 929-930 site, citing a perceived beneficial impact on Lower 8th Street. This proposal allows use of part of 9th Street and a part of the […]
Groundbreaking and completion of the Hine Site by Stanton Development Corp./Eastbanc has been pushed back, with demolition not occurring until Spring 2013 and completion not until April 2015, according to those who attended a meeting with Stanton Tuesday night. The originally published timeline, still on the developer’s website, called for groundbreaking in the summer of […]
Chateau-Animaux, the Hill’s original chic pet store, –well, its third incarnation of it, after its original circa 1994 Eastern Market stall and then Doolittle’s on 7th Street — is under contract to sell to restaurant purveyors, hoping to open two establishments, one upstairs and the other downstairs, according to both Chateau’s owner and ANC6B’s Norm […]
The growth of new business on H Street combined local interest from the vendors at Eastern Market to the aspiring fashion folk among us — who collect, knit, knot, consult, style themselves, sew and blog — has resulted in the perfect match: a workshop for those who want to start up a fashion business and […]