Coffee fiend, bike guy, transit advocate, enemy of zoning laws. Formerly the guy who wanted a coffee shop in Cleveland Park, DC. Views mine.
Washington, DC
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A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
All of the mid century FedGov buildings in SW were a giant mistake and it would be insane to keep them for myopic historic preservation reasons. It’s a generational opportunity to rebuild that area in a way that’s much more aesthetically pleasing, useful and functional.
Check out these photos of the former HUD headquarters in DC: the building that's literally falling apart but the government can't get rid of due to tangled bureacracy.
The federal government's property maintenance backlog is $370 billion, by the way.
BREAKING Bagel AND Donut News for Cleveland Park!! - Back to Glorious and a GOOD MORNING: popville.com/2026/09/bagel-a…
The width of DC streets and general lack of trees in some areas is a big issue for pedestrians, especially in a city that gets so hot/humid 4-5 months out of the year
Pennsylvania Avenue, for example, is a huge problem, which could be easily fixed.
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A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
POV, you are a driver with Maryland plates inside the District of Columbia
Buckle up for a lap around the nation’s capital.
Ride along the 1.7-mile Freedom 250 Grand Prix track, feeling every turn as you fly down Pennsylvania Avenue and past the Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Smithsonian museums.
The first-ever INDYCAR race around the National Mall takes over D.C. Aug. 22-23, with Sunday’s race airing live on FOX.
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
Highlands Tavern is planning to open at 3421 Connecticut Ave NW in a few weeks with pub fare including wood-fired pizzas, a kids menu, and weekday HH from 4-6pm with $10 pizza & discounted drinks. They'll open at 11am every day and serve as a Notre Dame football bar. Draft menus:
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
there's this weird notion in America that you can't have commerce in a park. To me it is the absolute worst thing about Washington DC. but it also exists all over the country.
Europe figured out concessions decades ago. Every park has a kiosk: espresso, pastry, maybe a spritz or a beer at 6pm. Small operator pays rent, city gets revenue, park gets foot traffic and eyes on the grass. Everyone wins.
SF has 230+ parks and almost none of this. Dolores Park froze a Blue Bottle cart permit over community outreach complaints. Coit Tower took years of hand-wringing over a removable food kiosk (unsurprisingly: Peskin territory). Meanwhile we wonder why maintenance budgets are tight and parks feel empty at 7am.
Give me a coffee kiosk in every major park. Let the concession help pay for upkeep. Let foot traffic take care of public safety. Create a third space — a square where people can meet instead of shouting at each other on social media. I’ll die on this hill.
Photos from Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
One of the ways you can tell these subdistricts are a bad idea is to look at existing vibrant neighborhoods. Georgetown, Dupont, U St, etc weren't built this way.
A neighborhood should be shaped by the people and businesses that show up to live, work, and play there.
.@OPinDC has a survey on the future of H St. Their recommendations generally move us in the right direction, but they're also a microcosm of the issue with our current planning regime. A detailed 🧵
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Pennsylvania is low key the American urbanism promised land. Just hundreds of beautiful, walkable, living little Main Street towns all over the state.
Shade over the Cleveland Park Promenade would really complete it. The markets held out on this space have been wonderful, and they’d be that much more comfortable with if this project goes through!
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
I wouldn’t call it a dead zone, it’s populated most of the time, but imo the biggest issue with the Mall (which could certainly have more trees) is what’s around it. There are very few people who live near the Mall, and restaurant/entertainment options are limited
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I have a vision
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public transit makes driving better.
We don't have it in Detroit. Parking for Lions games hits $100. traffic adds 30+ minutes. and do you wanna drive drunk? uber is $$ and still has strangers
Here's a Nats game in DC. Every one of these people is one less car on the road.
ALT Hundreds of people, many in red baseball jerseys, on a Metro platform after a Washington Nationals game.
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
One of the key questions I have is "Who is going to clean house?" And I think any of these three, in addition to their strong urbanist credentials, are going to shake up DC government.
CPSG is out with our endorsements for Mayor: @Janeese4DC @goodweather4dc @RiniSampath cpsmartgrowth.com/2026/05/28…
A Coffee Shop On Every Corner retweeted
Im on the fence too but tie breaker for me is the Mayor fully controls DDOT & transportation policy & McD is terrible there while the DC Council has as much control on housing as the Mayor so Mendo & his stupid housing takes will be as important as JLGs (or McDs) kooky ones.