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ADVISORYNEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 7C04 TOGETHERBETTER!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sylvia C. Brown
April 7, 2011 202-841-4117
[email protected]
Deanwood Residents Picket Against Twelfth Liquor StoreLiquor
Store Limits Diverse, Quality, Neighborhood-serving Retail
WASHINGTON, DCThis Saturday, April 9 Deanwood residents will
picket Uncle LeesSeafood to oppose the deli businesss class A
liquor license application. The liquor license poses
a threat to developing and implementing the economic development
potential of the critical
Eastern Avenue and Sheriff Road corridors. Additionally, a
liquor store will negatively impact
the peace, order, and quiet community standard set by the
District of Columbias AlcoholBeverage Control board.
The picket will start at 10:00 a.m. in the public space at 1100
Eastern Avenue NE.
We have clear documentation that the addition of a twelfth
liquor store to the Eastern Avenue,
Sheriff Road, and Division Avenue corridors will have a
significant negative impact on the
neighborhood, said Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Sylvia C.
Brown (7C-04). We
need better. We deserve better. We are demanding better. Liquor
stores are no way toencourage meaningful, substantial neighborhood
revitalization. Deanwood has reached its
saturation point with the double-digit count of liquor
stores.
Eastern Avenue is a known hot spot for vice crimes, especially
prostitution, heroin and PCP sales
and use, and auto thefts. In fact, the Metropolitan Police
Departments Sixth District has a work
station at 7-11 on Eastern to increase their response times to
emergency calls. Granting anotherliquor license will seal the
brand, and possibly the fate, of the critical Eastern Avenue and
Sheriff
Road corridors and stretch police resources. A single business
type that is clearly linked to
negative outcomes, including suppression of economic and
community growth, should not be
allowed to proliferate unchecked on the retail landscape of
Deanwood.
Sherrie Lawson, former vice-president of the Deanwood Citizens
Association, said, The picketcomes after numerous meetings urging
Uncle Lees owner, Ms. Eun Sun Kim, to focus on food
as a restaurant and take advantage of the technical assistance
available from the Deanwood
Heights Main Street to improve its faade and marketing to
attract customers. Eastern-Sheriff-
Division has a starburst configuration and is a gateway to the
District and Maryland, creating a
greatbusiness opportunity for a restaurant. Lawson continued,
Ms. Kim has refused this adviceand has chosen instead to rely on
lotto and liquor as the only way to survive.
At Saturdays picket residents will urge Ms. Kim to withdraw the
liquor license application andfocus on food at the deli. Uncle Lees
Seafood would improve its business bottom-line and meet
an unmet needfreshly made, healthy food in a clean, welcoming
environmentand helpattract diverse, quality, neighborhood-serving
retail to Deanwood.
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