CityVista Adds Popular Deli to Its Retail Roster

• June 29, 2009

by Will Smith

Prince of Petworth is reporting that the popular deli Taylor will open a second location in the retail ground floor of the CityVista development at 5th and K Street NW. It is a nice win for the burgeoning Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood generally and CityVista in particular.

Taylor currently has one location in the H Street corridor in Northeast. According to PoP, the new CityVista location will open in the October timeframe.

Typically the opening of a deli wouldn’t cause such a stir, but Mount Vernon Triangle is closely watched for positive signs of the neighborhood’s progress. Just north of Chinatown, it is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the north, and New Jersey Avenue to the east (see this map). It is one of DC’s youngest neighborhoods and defined by new condo developments like CityVista, Madrigal Lofts, The Sonata, and Yale Steam Laundry. Proponents of the neighborhood point to the tremendous development that has occurred there in a short amount of time; skeptics point to the undeveloped parking lots as evidence that it still has a ways to go before becoming a truly mature neighborhood. Every new retail establishment that enters the neighborhood encourages the proponents and weakens the skeptics.

CityVista has emerged as the retail hub of Mount Vernon Triangle, with a Safeway, Busboys and Poets restaurant, Starbucks, Results gym, bank, hardware store, and, very soon, a new popular deli.