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Yes I was in DC in August and I noticed the change as well in Georgetown. Many of the stores I liked from back in the day are gone. I remember when the side walks were so crowded you had to walk in the streets. I loved the live music from the various bars. Friday and Saturday used to be popping.
Why was it changed into a residential neighborhood?
People have always lived in Georgetown. I wouldn't exactly call it suburbia just yet though.
Yes I was in DC in August and I noticed the change as well in Georgetown. Many of the stores I liked from back in the day are gone. I remember when the side walks were so crowded you had to walk in the streets. I loved the live music from the various bars. Friday and Saturday used to be popping.
Why was it changed into a residential neighborhood?
It wasn't changed. The residential buildings are still where the residential buildings were and the commercial buildings are still where the commercial buildings were.
Georgetown and GW aren't in session until the last week of August. It's still crowded sidewalks and full bars when they are around.
Georgetown has more competition from other DC neighborhoods that now offer an acceptable degree of safety and recreational options, but I don't think it's in significant decline.
I think decline is not a good word. Evolve is much better. Georgetown has definitely toned down a bit from the days when 200,000 would be there for Halloween. Like many of the poster's already mentioned, it has competition from other places in the city. Metro doesn't have anything to do with it. People would come to Georgetown regardless but it's not the happening place in town right now. As for real estate, it is still one of DC's most prestigous and desirable locations. Just look in the Post's home sales section.
Wow I thought it was just me! I went to Georgetown University and thus spent 4 years hanging out in Georgetown and I am pretty sick of it. I was super impressed by it when I first moved here, but now I never even think to go there. I rarely go back to shop, eat, or party, and if I go anywhere near that part of town I usually hit Glover Park instead because I like Breadsoda. The Georgetown bars are very expensive and the scene is weird. I don't want to get all gussied up just to go drink but you feel weird as a girl walking around Gtown in flats and a t-shirt on a Friday night. The stores are all mall stores that have jacked up their prices- if I want to shop at stores like that I'd rather go to Pentagon City and just shop at the cheaper versions of those same stores. The restaurants are played out and not innovative at all- if they are at all inventive then they charge an arm and a leg (Bandolero I'm looking at you). I'd much rather dine on U street, H street, or even Old Town Alexandria, which is basically Georgetown except a little cheaper. I don't think Georgetown is in 'decline' per say- it's always going to have expensive real estate and the university, but I think it's no longer the 'hot' going out area it used to be and it needs to find its niche again.
It's such a hassle to get to. I mean I live in SW, so its 5 minutes away but living in Columbia Heights before, I'd pass on an evening out in Georgetown. It feels like it's on the other end of the city and a chore to get to.
And just like Georgetown, 15 years from now, someone will be having the same conversation about U & H Streets. NOMA is quicky coming up followed by the Navy Yard. All things change.
I live on 4th street SW and it would probably take 10 minutes to get to the heart of Georgetown. I was being generous with 5 minutes. Basically I have to get on Maine avenue and then get onto Independence Avenue and I'm there. Point is, it's very accessible from where I live.
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