The information on the public meetings below is now dated. However, the feedback form on Tenleytown traffic safety improvements remains active through June 10th. Ward 3 Vision live tweeted that meeting: Live tweeting @DDOTDC meeting about area around TT Metro station – still time to join here https://t.co/nFJ44uWqP5 pic.twitter.com/HBgGo45wx2 — Ward3Vision (@Ward3Vision) May 24, 2022 […]
Business in Brief: Italian Bar opens; Details about Flavor Garden; Rosemary Bistro gets Washington Post raves
Italian Bar’s opening day is at hand: Friday the 13th might forever be Italian Bar’s lucky day. Its owners announced on Friday, May 13th that its sign had arrived, and was gracing the storefront at 5007 Connecticut Avenue. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Italian Bar DC (@italianbardc) But more importantly, so […]
Business in Brief: The I’m Eddie Cano people plan a pizzeria, and for indie movie theaters, it’s “No Time to Die”
The I’m Eddie Cano family continues to grow, slowly: In January, Massimo and Carolyn Papetti revealed plans for a Roman-style pizzeria in Glover Park. And at this point, it might be a spring opening for that new restaurant, and for Italian Bar. The Papettis’ original opening timeline for the coffee and gelato bar two doors […]
Upcoming events: Housing history in Cleveland Park, future development in Chevy Chase, and adding housing to your own property
Thursday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m.: The first in a series of virtual conversations hosted by Cleveland Park Smart Growth on the neighborhood’s housing affordability challenges and potential solutions. It focuses on Cleveland Park’s history of exclusion and how current civic engagement practices can perpetuate exclusion in high-income neighborhoods. See the schedule for the other […]
Business in Brief II: Politics and Prose is DC’s first unionized bookstore; Italian Bar meets Kickstarter goal; Buy Mark Furstenberg’s cookbooks
All the neighborhood business news that broke on Monday after we posted Business in Brief I: Politics and Prose is a union shop now And it’s the first bookstore in the District to unionize. Politics and Prose and UCFW Local 400 jointly announced their agreement on the scope of the collective bargaining unit. And this […]
Business in Brief: Italian Bar update; Van Ness Main Street planning spring market, summer movie nights; Uptown Theater readying a return?
Help kickstart a new business Italian Bar (5008 Connecticut Avenue), the gelato and espresso-selling venture from the I’m Eddie Cano people, has had to push back its planned opening date. “We’ve been tied up in permitting with DCRA and it’s set our opening date back several months which is costly,” Carolyn and Massimo Papetti recently […]
Business in Brief: Outdoor venue makes Comet concerts truly all-ages; Local “Best of DC” winners; Main Streets have gift-giving ideas
A pandemic pivot brings a local performance venue a new audience: When Comet Ping Pong transformed its back parking lot into a dining area and concert venue, it brought about a change in who comes to its shows. “We’re an all-ages venue, but at these outdoor shows, we see a much wider range — anywhere […]
The “Shop-Local Workout,” Holiday 2021 edition
The “Shop-Local Workout” is a Forest Hills Connection holiday tradition. In 2012, Marlene Berlin laced up her walking shoes and took us on a walking and shopping tour of Van Ness, Forest Hills, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park and Tenleytown. We’ve published a new version with updates almost every year since. The 2021 updates, sadly, include […]
See what Knollwood is doing to capture and clean stormwater runoff
Over the years, we’ve seen the damage excess stormwater can do to our parks and streams, and to infrastructure including trails, roads and our Metro system, so whenever we hear about new and local mitigation efforts… let’s just say our ears perk up. Knollwood, the independent and assisted living community for seniors who have served […]
Business in Brief: MOM’s Van Ness lease locked in; I’m Eddie Cano opening “Italian Bar;” A “buy early” plea from Politics & Prose
MOM’s Van Ness is a done deal. We reported in July that MOM’s Organic Market is opening a location at UDC-owned 4250 Connecticut Avenue, but the contract was not yet finalized. Leeann Hall, the new UDC vice president of marketing and communications, tells us all residual issues with the lease have been resolved. Other updates: […]