D.C.'s sluggish downtown office market takes a bite out of this retailer's lunch business

One telltale sign of the floundering D.C. office market has popped up in an unexpected place: Macy’s in downtown D.C.

The store’s “lunch rush” has declined significantly in the past year, store manager and vice president Valerie Dollison told a group gathered for the “State of Downtown” event hosted by the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District Friday.

The hours between noon and 2 p.m. used to be the store’s busiest time. Dollison attributed the drop in business to the changing…