The Washington Business Journal reports that furinture retailer Room and Board is scouting for a D.C. location. They seek a 35,000 square-foot, free standing building to buy in D.C. that’s an "older building with character." They do not want to be in Georgetown; 14th and U Streets and Dupont are apparently the current areas of interest.
Wouldn't it be cool if Room and Board would set their sights on lower 9th Street? I think 1314 9th Street would make an awesome furniture store and is primely located near downtown, the convention center, Logan Circle, and amidst a lot of neat local businesses like Long View Gallery, Maruka and be bar.
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I love Room and Board. Last year I was at their store in SoHo, and somebody there was telling me that DC was a place they were looking at.
35,000 square feet is a big store... I doubt the building I linked even approaches that. I wonder what, if anything, in the Convention Center area could provide such square footage...
818 Rhode Island Ave. NW and 819-821 Q Street NW? ("Le Slum Historique"?)
wonder bread factory
do a lease back part of the new convention center, it's almost always empty, put it back on the tax rolls
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corner of 14th and T, currently covered in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle grafitti
Clay, that space is spoke for, Tryst/Diner is moving in there.
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