Mosaic
Credit: EDENS/A. Chan
A NEW URBAN LANDSCAPE
Over in the Mosaic District, the scene is considerably more upbeat.
At the chandelier-bedecked Angelika Film Center & Café, patrons
line up for the latest blockbuster movie or arthouse film. The
industrial-chic Caboose Commons Brewery is awash in revelry on a
Saturday afternoon. And at Muse, the acrylics are flowing.
Not bad for an area that not long ago was considered a suburban
wasteland. Now, dozens of retail outlets and 30 or so dining venues
are laid out along manicured streetscapes, with townhouses,
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apartment buildings, and offices rising around them. Mosaic’s
central greenspace, Strawberry Park, hosts movie nights in spring
and summer, plus live concerts and storytelling performances,
among other events.
The usual upscale mall fare — West Elm, Williams Sonoma,
Lululemon — fill the retail spaces. But so do lower profile outposts,
like the Sundance Store of Robert Redford provenance. Washington
jewelry designer Sophie Blake also has a namesake shop here. And
prolific D.C. restaurateurs Ian and Eric Hilton are due to open a
French bistro — their first eatery outside the city — this summer.