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Georgetown condominium going up for auction
Auctioneers are seeking bids by Friday for a bank-owned, 10,000-foot residential property at 2136 Wisconsin Avenue. A property which the Washington Business Journal describes as "hard hit by the recession," the building was built in 2007 but its owners could not successfully find residents before the Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union reclaimed it.
"Since bids opened about three months ago, embassies, nonprofits, foundations and academic groups have all shown interest," WBJ writes.
The number of bids and the probable sales price is not known, but the credit union has promised to finance the property for the buyer, who will need to finish the 95 percent complete building before it can sign on residents.
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Water main busted for many Georgetown businesses
"An 8 inch water main break on Thomas Jefferson Street, NW between Canal Street, NW and K Street, is affecting about 2,000 commercial properties in Georgetown, according to DC Water," the Washington Post reported.
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CVS Sighting: Rahm Emanuel
Looking tan, rested and ready (how does he do it?), White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel breezed in and out of the CVS in Glover Park Sunday afternoon. Wearing a light-blue button-down and khakis, he hopped out of a black SUV, with one Secret Service agent following him into the store.
It may take a bigger "Entourage" (the HBO series based on the life of his brother, Ari Emanuel, founder of the Endeavor talent agency) to keep Rahm in the Obama administration. The London Telegraph says the White House Chief of Staff will quit late this year, probably after November's mid-term elections, having grown tired of clashing with Obama's "idealistic inner circle" of advisers.
Bye-bye, Rahm?
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Mugging at 34th & N Sts.
A mugging took place Friday at approximately 2:00 p.m. in front of 3333 N St. NW. A purse was taken from a resident, and the locks to the building were changed. If you have any information, please contact The Georgetown Dish.
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Homage to Olive Street
"One could say that my arrival here four years ago was providential," writes syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker in The Washington Post. "I was a day away from moving into an apartment in Dupont Circle when, passing through Georgetown, I decided to take one quick turn around the nearest block -- just to see. And, voila. A small townhouse was for rent, and the people who were to become my neighbors and extended family were on the sidewalk. It was cocktail hour."
Parker is headed to the Big Apple to co-host a CNN talk show with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, airing in the fall.
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Movie Films in Georgetown Starting Monday
The Office of Motion Picture and Television says film activity planned for August 2-3, 2010 from 7:00 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. by Open 4 Business Productions, LLC will take place in various locations in Georgetown. The filming will involve exterior shots of 3256 N Street, NW. The production has been granted permission by the property owner.
In addition to filming, the production has requested parking for their essential production vehicles along both sides of N St., NW between Wisconsin Ave., NW and Potomac St., NW (5 spaces), as well as Potomac St., NW between N St., NW and O St., NW (10 spaces).
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Former SEIU president joins GU Public Policy Institute
Andy Stern, the past and trailblazing president of one of the largest unions in North America, will join the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute as a senior research fellow on Aug. 1. Stern is a former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president.
Stern, 59, will coordinate research at on wage reform, labor policy and retirement security, according to an announcement on GU's website.
Stern maintains his position as an adviser on President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission, a post to which Obama appointed him in February of this year.
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Georgetown chef to be on Top Chef: Just Desserts
The end of Top Chef D.C. doesn't necessarily mean the end of local flavor on Bravo. For their upcoming series Top Chef: Just Desserts, the network has cast not just a chef from D.C., but one who works right here in Georgetown.
That contestant is Heather Chittum, a 37-year-old pastry chef at Georgetown's own Hook and Tackle Box restaurants. DCist reports that Chittum has "a very D.C. bio."
"She worked on the Hill and then for a national non-profit before enrolling in culinary school," writes Josh Novikoff. "She's served as pastry chef at several restaurants around town, including the famed Citronelle. In 2008, Chittum won the RAMMY for Pastry Chef of the Year and was named by Gayot as one of the top 5 pastry chefs in the nation."
Good luck, Chittum. From the preview video Bravo released, which you can watch above, it looks like you're about to enter a world of sugary drama.
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Gray Hosted by Superlawyers at Fundraiser
D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray's mayoral campaign got a boost Wednesday night with the endorsement of superlawyer Robert S. Bennett, a Georgetown University graduate, and his photographer wife, Ellen, at a meet-and-greet fundraiser at their Kalorama home. The well-heeled event, co-hosted by attorney Stephen Porter and his wife Susan drew about 40 people.
Bennett's client list reads like a Washington Who's Who -- Bill Clinton (during the Lewinsky scandal), Sen. John McCain, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, Paul Wolfowitz and Caspar Weinberger.
Among the guests were Barbara B. Lang, president and CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce and her husband, Gerald, a management consultant and a member of the University of the District of Columbia's board of trustees. The chamber endorsed Gray a few weeks ago.
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Old Georgetown Board rejects Eagle Bank mural
The Old Georgetown Board has rejected a mural proposed by Eagle Bank, the same one that the Advisory Neighborhood commission found distasteful and voted against in June, The Georgtown Current reports.
The mural had been designed by Byron Peck, a D.C. artist who also designed the Duke Ellington mural on U Street, shown right. But this design was not up to snuff. Local blogger Georgetown Metropolitan railed against the mural when it was first unveiled, noting that it was way out of touch with Georgetown's aesthetic:
"Essentially what they proposed was a giant bald eagle swooping down with a blue sky (and what looked like the moon, oddly enough) behind it. To be perfectly blunt, it looked like something that the Franklin Mint would sell.
"The ANC adopted a resolution against it (both because of the design and because it operated like a billboard for the bank), and GM hopes the Old Georgetown Board agrees."
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