A Crate & Barrel “CB2” Store at 14th & R?
Crate & Barrel’s CB2 store on North Avenue in Chicago. (Photo: CB2 Web site.)
(Note: dcist picked up the story first from WBJ.) Is Crate & Barrel thinking about opening one of its CB2 stores in Borderstan at 14th and R NW where the Central Union Mission is located (and supposedly moving to 65 Massachusetts Avenue NW)?
Maybe… possibly… we’ll see. According to the weekly Washington Business Journal:
Furniture retailer Crate & Barrel is looking for space to bring its CB2 store to D.C., according to a source familiar with the deal. CB2, which is aimed at a younger and more urban market than Crate & Barrel, is considering taking space along the 14th Street NW corridor in a planned office-retail project at 1350 R St. NW. The project is being developed by Jeffrey Schonberger, principal at Alturas Real Estate Interests LLC.
By the way, did you catch this paragraph in the WBJ story?
Central Union Ministry currently operates a homeless shelter on the property, at the corner of 14th and R streets, but sold it to Schonberger in 2006 and is negotiating with the city to move its operations into the former Gales School at 65 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
What’s up with the “negotiating with the city” business? I thought it was a done deal that the Mission was moving to the 65 Mass. Avenue location.
