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Business in Brief: Laid-off Burger King workers got no warning; Bagels galore; MOM’s Van Ness “Coming 2023”

January 19, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

Little Red Fox and Burger King are gone. And their departures are a study in contrasts. The owners of Little Red Fox and Sugar Fox announced their intentions several days before […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Tenleytown, Van Ness

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The Van Ness Burger King is really and truly gone. And at Call Your Mother’s new Forest Hills location, there’s one question customers shouldn’t ask.

January 4, 2023 by FHC 1 Comment

Okay, we believe it now. Like a cat with nine lives, the Burger King at 4422 Connecticut Avenue has endured through threat after threat of closure, two of those from […]

Filed Under: Business, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Out to eat, Shop & Eat Local, Van Ness

It looks like the rock ‘n roll Burger King at Van Ness has closed for good

January 1, 2023 by FHC 10 Comments

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial may have lost his Van Ness home. The Burger King at 4422 Connecticut Avenue, distinctive (and some say “legendary”) for its rock ‘n roll and 80s and […]

Filed Under: ANC 3F, Business, Featured, Food, News, Out to eat, Van Ness

Chick-fil-A is coming to Van Ness, 7 years after DC nixed its first attempt

December 12, 2022 by FHC 6 Comments

In 2016, concerns about car traffic scuttled Chick-fil-A’s plans for a drive-thru location at 4422 Connecticut Avenue. The chain’s second bid to open a Van Ness restaurant is less likely […]

Filed Under: Business, Featured, News, UDC, Van Ness

Little Red Fox and Sugar Fox have closed. ‘This is not a business decision’

December 7, 2022 by FHC 6 Comments

Less than two weeks after Little Red Fox marked its ninth year in business, its owners are announcing that the cafe and its sister shop Sugar Fox will be serving […]

Filed Under: Business, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Shop & Eat Local

The “Shop-Local Workout,” Holiday 2022 edition

November 25, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

2022 is the Forest Hills Connection’s 10th anniversary year, and this is the tenth anniversary of our post-Thanksgiving tradition: Marlene Berlin’s “Shop-Local Workout.” The first time our editor-in-chief invited us […]

Filed Under: Business, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Featured, Forest Hills, Hillwood Museum, News, Shop & Eat Local, Tenleytown, Things To Do, Van Ness

Business in Brief: City Paper’s “Best of D.C. 2022;” Main Street activities

November 21, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

The people have spoken. And some of our local businesses and institutions are the “Best of D.C.,” according to Washington City Paper readers. Selected as the winners of their respective […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Featured, Main Street, News, Shop & Eat Local

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What you will find at Van Ness Main Street’s 7th annual holiday pop-up market on Dec. 10

November 14, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

The sidewalk outside 4340 Connecticut Avenue will transform into a holiday market with 40-plus vendors on Saturday, December 10th. This is Van Ness Main Street’s seventh Holiday Pop-up featuring local […]

Filed Under: Featured, Main Street, News, Shop & Eat Local, Things To Do, Van Ness

Business in Brief: Child’s Play has a new owner; Remembering Politics and Prose’s chief book buyer; the I’m Eddie Cano group eyes another expansion

October 10, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Child’s Play has a new owner: Or, in their words, a new chief happiness officer. “As you may have heard, we recently sold Child’s Play Toys & Books,” Simmie Kerman, […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Play, Shop & Eat Local, Van Ness

Real estate updates from ANC 3F’s Sept. meeting: UDC retail “starting to fill in,” and developer Jair Lynch has Days Inn property under contract

September 27, 2022 by FHC 3 Comments

ANC 3F had a jam-packed agenda at its September 20th meeting, which you can watch in full here: Topics included commercial real estate on Connecticut Avenue in Van Ness, specifically […]

Filed Under: ANC 3F, Business, Featured, News, Real Estate, Van Ness

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