New Mt. Vernon Safeway

Sep 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM

The wife and I biked down to the City Vista development at 5th & K streets this weekend to stop in at 5th Street Hardware. The hardware store looks great, and I'll definitely be going back. While we were there, we mashed our faces (and iPhones, see below) to the windows and it looks like the Safeway is really coming along. The only problem we saw while we were there, was the lack of anything to lock our bikes to. Fortunately, ANC2C blog pointed out yesterday that they have now added bike racks. I think they will probably be far from enough, particularly once the Giant closes, but at least it's a start.

With the arrival of a Safeway in our neighborhood, the local residents have an important task before us--naming the Safeway. This is a sacred task that DC residents have passed from one generation to the next, and we are now tasked with coming up with an appropriate name for this Safeway. For starters, check out this round up of DC Safeway names. Of course, some names will always be debated. For instance, which Safeway is truly the Un-Safeway? I've heard at least three different uses. Some of the others are instant classics--the Soviet Safeway, the Social Safeway.

All that brings me back to what we should name our new Safeway. We may not be able to encapsulate the character of the Safeway until after it has opened and become a part of our neighborhood, but I think the discussion should begin now. Let the debate