I wondered last week if the Armenian Genocide Museum planned for 14th and G will use its existing storefronts for actual retail. According to the HPO staff report that was approved by HPRB last week, the museum will restore the historic storefronts in the building. Steve Callcott of HPO also told me that at least some of the storefronts will actually be retail; HPO is pushing for all of them to be, but the museum had originally proposed some conference rooms, and this is still undetermined.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.