He said despite putting out feelers to a number of property owners in Ward 8, the city’s most economically depressed ward, he had received almost no responses. Where will Shallal go next? He said he would like to be in Anacostia, and considered taking over the former Uniontown Bar and Grill, but the space was too small. Reeves Center Garage 523 ft away 15 Book Now DETAILS 2101 16th St NW 16th St Garage 0. It’s not just a government city,” he said. Busboys & Poets 14th & V Sort by closest cheapest Austin Ct NW Union Row 201 ft away 20 GPS Directions Reservation Not Available - Pricing Info Only 1427 U St. Lots of people work from home and want to have a place to be around other people. People work different shifts and different times of day. “We live in a city that’s become more cosmopolitan.

Shallal said Busboys has become successful in part because it has something to offer at all times of day in neighborhoods that are evolving away from being strictly nine-to-five locales. Busboys events, for example, are not managed centrally, but by staff at each location. He said he tries to make each location unique to the neigborhood where it operates. He said that although he has concerns about growing the company too large, he has no intention of slowing down. In all, he said he has about 500 employees now, a number that could reach 675 with the two openings. He also owns the Eatonville restaurant on 14th Street NW. The Takoma location, expected to open in the spring of 2014, will be the fifth Busboys, and Shallal said he is negotiating a lease to open a sixth in the Brookland neighborhood in Northeast D.C. “It fits a lot of the things that we serve,” he said of the neighborhood. He said he likes to open in neighborhoods that lack community gathering places, which he considers the core purpose of the bar-coffeehouse-bookstore-performance space. “I think Takoma is a great, progressive communit,y and a place where a lot of our customers already live,” Shallal said. The project, by Federal Capital Partners and Level 2 Development, will have 150 apartments upstairs and is currently under construction. The e-mails never stopped, and on Tuesday, Shallal decided that he would answer them by signing a lease to open a 6,500-square-foot Busboys in a new retail-and-apartment project at the corner of Carroll and Maple streets NW, near the District-Maryland line and the Takoma Metro station. Would Shallal, an Iraqi-American whose opposition to the invasion of Iraq helped put Busboys on the map, consider opening a location there?

and its Maryland neighbor, Takoma Park, a neighborhood long known for its counter-culturism. Shortly after Andy Shallal opened Busboys and Poets on 14th Street NW in 2005, he said he began receiving a stream of e-mails and phone calls from residents of the Takoma neighborhood of D.C.

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