Friday, April 06, 2012

Local News Round-Up

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ABC7 shares riot pics, and shots of H Street today.

Refinery29 checks in at both Boundary Road (414 H Street), and the Daily Rider (1108 H Street).

Toki Underground (2nd floor 1234 H Street) is closed for Easter.

Urban Turf looks at H Street's rapidly evolving restaurant scene.

Washington City Paper reveals that we will not actually be getting an Ace Hardware at the Fashion One site after all ($35 per square foot was deemed too dear).

The Washington Post interviews H Street Main Street's Anwar Saleem and discusses his efforts to banish the exterior roll-downs and bulletproof glass.

4 comments:

Drew said...

In the WJLA link, 1968 photo mentions H Street in the caption.

This one:
http://www.wjla.com/pictures/2012/04/washington-martin-luther-king-riots-the-damaged-areas-44-years-later/19739-1417.html

Can anyone confirm that this is actually H Street? Does anyone know the address?

Anonymous said...

I became a little obsessed to find an answer while on a conference call. There is a columbia heights "then & now" page that suggests these stores were on 14th street.

Anonymous said...

Can they please update the H street Main Street website...how many years old is that? What a joke...

Anonymous said...

Congratulations to Anwar Saleem for being a beacon on H St for more than 30 yrs.