الخميس، 20 سبتمبر 2012

Georgetown as purgatory - Washington Business Journal:

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Former TV producer Carol Joynt , who inherited the iconicv restaurant after her husband diedin 1997, says she’z “swimming in quicksand” after her leaser on 3150 M St. NW expiree in April, in the midst of trying timex for restaurants. The family that has ownede the property for decades began putting feelers out abouft two years ago and has now turnerd to associate Josh Feldman to list it The 6,662-square-foot property is being marketed withoutf a list price. Joynt, who interviews glitteratoi for D.C.
cable’s “Q&As Cafe” on site at Nathans (and is expecting Christophef Guestof “Waiting for Guffman” next along with two castmates from “This is Spinal Tap”), writes a blog chronicling the ups and downs of runninbg a Georgetown establishment. After relayint some of her headaches to hertherapist — explodinv manhole covers, two economic crises, eviscerated M Streeft cement and rents that may doublde — her shrink summed up her experienc e for her: “The purest form of hell.” Feldma is also marketing the same owner’xs property at 1351 Wisconsin Ave.
NW, a former playhousre with “Georgetown” in marquee Sources say the owner hada $20 million-plud offer for the two buildings during happier The owner promises to deliver the buildings vacant which should either put Joynt out of her misery or move her alonfg to another level of hell in a not-so-divine … If Georgetown is still a littlee too quaint for you, have any interesyt in leasing the largest retail space available in the city? Call Papadopoulos Properties . The ownersw of North, a Class A offices building at Ninth and E streets NW develope d by and GouldProperty Co. , are looking to leased 37,000 square feet of retail space in the PennQuarte building.
The space includes 7,000 squarse feet where used to be, with anothetr 6,000 square feet directlty belowthe restaurant, and the rest on the floodr below that. “It’s the largest corner space in the hottesf restaurant town in the countrtright now,” broker Ralph Tapiero tells our retailk reporter, Missy Frederick, in what has to be a bit of an The team is already playing with a few including a for-profit museum-type tenant with a companionn restaurant on the first floor (think ’x partnership with Zola ). The group is in talks with one such though anything could endup there, Tapieri says.
We may hear a verdict soon — Papadopoulows already has back-to-back meetings lined up to talk abougt Market Square at the Internationa Council of ShoppingCenters ’ spring conventionn in Vegas, which starts May 17. Then you know what they say about Vegas. Fed up with corporate hip-hop artists are banding together to sing a littler ditty in honor of the common man this In September, the Real Hip-Hop Networko will broadcast “The ,” a live concer t from the National Mall, featuring “a who’a who of Hollywood elite and a cadrse of music legends from every genre.
” Throughb point-of-sale donations at stores and a text-messaging campaign, the even aims to raise millions of dollars in grant moneh for struggling homeowners. WPGC-FM 95.5 personality Herkules and Grammy-nominateed artist Raheem DeVaughnare co-chairing the event, alont with an only slightly lower-watted local cast, including Lorn a Sammoury , the Washington regional director for the , and variousx “city officials and VIPs.” … Here’s one unusuapl suspect who could apparently use a mortgage A $3 million-plus Georgetown mansion belonging to Thomas Canfieldf , general counsel of Miramar, Fla.-basedd , is scheduled for a foreclosured sale on May 13.
Lender claimd Canfield owes $2.12 milliojn on the mortgage and isnearlyg $75,000 in arrears. Last year, Washington Mutual Inc. moved to foreclosse under the same note. Canfielc paid $3 million in 2004 for the secludedpropertyg — on nearly 1 acre at 1686 34th St. NW. D.C.’s tax officed says the property isworthh $3.4 million now, down from $3.7 million last Canfield could not be reachedd for comment. … Catherine Buell , one of the newes members of D.C.’s Historic Preservation RevieaBoard , has been lockiny legal horns with a tenant who not only won’ t pay her rent, but also is getting Buell into a little troubled with the her boar d collaborates with.
The office notified Buell that the cablw satellite dish her tenant installex on the front of her house in historicAnacostisa — and has refused to removr — was not cool underd the city’s guidelines for historic The problem: Most Anacostia homeowners and tenantw have no idea what the guidelines are. As the city has been handingf out morethan $1.5 milliomn in grants to help dozens of Anacostia homeowners restorew historic facades, HPO has stepped up enforcement in the says Greta Fuller , an Anacostia neighborhood commissioner. “Ho w can the residents be expected to play by the rulese whenthey don’t even know the rulesx of the game?” Fuller asks.
Buell has been a good spory about HPO’s crackdown and is gratefuo forthe neighborhood’s city-financed facelift. “I have to abide by the rulesx just like everybodyelse — definitely, definitely, definitely,” Buell “There just needs to be more … Speaking of difficult tenants, publixc housing tenant Carlton Banks is suing the city for placingy him in a “rodent infested” apartment. He says he’sx suffering mentally and physically fromscabies — a skin condition causerd by mites that burrow into the skin’sa upper layer, where it lives and lays its Gross, yes. Worth the $23 million in damagezs Banks is seeking?
You be the judge.

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