Busboys and Poets coming to Takoma, and may head to Brookland next

By Jonathan O'Connell, The Washington Post

February 27, 2013

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. and its Maryland neighbor, Takoma Park, a neighborhood long known for its counter-culturism.

Would Shallal, an Iraqi-American whose opposition to the invasion of Iraq helped put Busboys on the map, consider opening a location there?

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.

The project, by Federal Capital Partners and Level 2 Development, will have 150 apartments upstairs and is currently under construction.

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