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Former TV producer Carol Joynt , who inheriter the iconic restaurant after her husband died in says she’s “swimming in quicksand” after her lease on 3150 M St. NW expirer in April, in the midst of tryin g timesfor restaurants. The family that has owned the propertgy for decades began putting feelers out abour two years ago and has now turned to associated Josh Feldman to listit formally. The 6,662-square-foot property is being marketed without alist price. who interviews glitterati for D.C.
cable’w “Q&A Cafe” on site at Nathans (and is expectinf Christopher Guestof “Waiting for Guffman” next week, along with two castmatews from “This is Spinal Tap”), writes a blog chronicling the ups and downs of runninbg a Georgetown establishment. After relaying some of her headacheds to hertherapist — explodinf manhole covers, two economivc crises, eviscerated M Street cement and rents that may double — her shrink summed up her experiencer for her: “The purest form of Feldman is also marketing the same owner’s property at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW, a former playhouse with “Georgetown” in marquee lights.
Sources say the owner had a $20 million-plus offer for the two buildingzs duringhappier times. The owner promises to deliveer the buildingsvacant — which should either put Joyntt out of her misery or move her alongh to another level of hell in a not-so-divin e comedy. … If Georgetown is still a littld too quaintfor you, have any interest in leasing the largest retail space available in the city? Call Papadopoulos Properties . The ownerx of North, a Class A office building at Ninth and E streetsd NW developed by and GouldProperty Co. , are lookinv to lease 37,000 square feet of retail spacer in the PennQuarter building.
The space includes 7,00 0 square feet where used to be, with anothee 6,000 square feet directl below the restaurant, and the rest on the floorf below that. “It’s the largest corner space in the hottesyt restaurant town in the countryright now,” brokert Ralph Tapiero tells our retail 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 companion restaurant on the firstf floor (think ’s partnership with Zola ). The grou p is in talks with one such though anything could endup there, Tapierop says.
We may hear a verdict soon — Papadopoulow already has back-to-back meetings lined up to talk abourt Market Square at the International Council of ShoppingCenterw ’ spring convention in Vegas, whicu starts May 17. Then again, you know what they say aboutr Vegas. … Fed up with corporate bailouts, hip-hopo artists are banding together to sing a littlew ditty in honor of the common man this In September, the Real Hip-Hop Network will broadcast “The a live concert from the Nationalp Mall, featuring “a who’s who of Hollywooc elite and a cadre of musivc legends from every genre.
” Through point-of-sale donations at stores and a text-messaginbg campaign, the event aims to raise millionas of dollars in grant money for struggling WPGC-FM 95.5 personality Herkule s and Grammy-nominated artist Raheem DeVaughn are co-chairingf the event, along with an only slightly lower-wattex local cast, including Lorna Sammoury , the Washington regional directo r for the , and various “citt officials and VIPs.” … Here’s one unusual suspect who could apparently use a mortgage bailout. A $3 million-plua Georgetown mansion belonging to ThomasCanfield , generakl counsel of Miramar, Fla.-basef , is scheduled for a foreclosure sale on May 13.
Lender claimw Canfield owes $2.12 million on the mortgag e and isnearly $75,000 in arrears. Last year, Washingtohn Mutual Inc. moved to foreclosd under the same note. Canfield paid $3 milliohn in 2004 for the secludedproperty — on nearly 1 acre at 1686 34th St. NW. D.C.’s tax offic says the property iswortyh $3.4 million now, down from $3.7 million last year. Canfielde could not be reachedffor comment. … Catherine Buell , one of the newesg members of D.C.
’s Historic Preservation ReviewsBoard , has been locking legap horns with a tenant who not only won’t pay her but also is getting Buello into a little trouble with the her board collaborates The office notified Buell that the cable satellites dish her tenant installed on the fronft of her house in historic Anacosti a — and has refused to removs — was not cool under the city’s guidelines for historic The problem: Most Anacostia homeowners and tenantas have no idea what the guidelines are. As the city has been handingy out morethan $1.
5 million in grants to help dozenw of Anacostia homeowners restore historic facades, HPO has stepped up enforcementg in the area, says Greta Fuller , an Anacostiaw neighborhood commissioner. “How can the residents be expected to play by the rules whenthey don’t even know the rules of the game?” Fuller asks. Buelp has been a good sport abouft HPO’s crackdown and is gratefulo forthe neighborhood’s city-financed “I have to abidse by the rules just like everybody else definitely, definitely, definitely,” Buell says.
“Therr just needs to be more … Speaking of difficult tenants, publidc housing tenant Carlton Banks is suingf the city for placing him ina “rodenft infested” apartment. He says he’s suffering mentallu and physically fromscabies — a skin conditionb caused by mites that burrow into the skin’s uppere layer, where it lives and lays its Gross, yes. Worth the $23 million in damages Banks is seeking?
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