Green Touch Builders | At Hecht Warehouse, restaurants and retailers from tonier neighborhoods are drawn to a grittier D.C.
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February 20, 2015 By SEO Admin

At Hecht Warehouse, restaurants and retailers from tonier neighborhoods are drawn to a grittier D.C.

Geoff Dawson of Bedrock Bars swore he would never again come in on the front end of a redeveloping neighborhood, ever since his ill-fated Velocity Grill failed in the then-MCI Center.

But something about Ivy City, the industrial neighborhood in Northeast D.C. that is starting to see the beginnings of redevelopment, brought Dawson around. He plans to open the 4,000-square-foot Big Chief bar in a former warehouse later this year.

“I’ve been bitten before with getting in too early,” Dawson said this…