Thought this article on a renaissance happening in DC was awesome. There’s every reason that 7th and 9th Street should continue to further develop in order to connect what the NY Times calls the nexus area – U St at 14th going down to 9th St. — to Chinatown.
See this excerpt:
Washington night life, it seems, has come of age, and Mr. Van Horn, along with a cohort of other D.J.’s, restaurateurs and night life entrepreneurs, is emblematic of the changes. Indeed, the city, once called, even by its own citizens, “Hollywood for ugly people” is in the midst of a night life renaissance. To whit: 53 restaurants, bars and boutiques have opened in the last two years in the area known as Mid-City (roughly from Thomas Circle up 14th Street through U Street, and along U down to Ninth). That doesn’t include the new celebrity chef haunts in Penn Quarter, nor the sleek new hotel bars at the Jefferson and the W, nor the monthly or weekly alternative parties like Maison that are held in warehouses, bars and nightclubs.
The nexus of the new energy is at 14th and U Streets, but the geography of D.C.’s burgeoning night life stretches up to Columbia Heights, down 14th through Logan Circle, past the Convention Center into Chinatown and out to the revived H Street corridor.
Bates Area Civic Association 