Columbia Heights Awaits Target, New Businesses

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AS THE DISTRICT'S FIRST TARGET store prepares to open at 14th and Irving streets NW in March, the new building across the way — the Highland Park, pictured at right — is getting ready to make its debut this year, too.

Construction on the building is done for the most part, but crews continue to work on the ground level, which will be home to an array of restaurants and other businesses, just steps from the neighborhood's Green and Yellow Line Metrorail station.

So far, it's been known that the Highland Park would be home to a Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries, a Potbelly Sandwich Works, Pete's Apizza New Haven-style pizza (pronounced ah-BEETS), Zinnia Caribbean Restaurant, Signal Financial and a new gastropub from Jamie Leeds, who owns Hank's Oyster Bar in Dupont Circle and Old Town Alexandria.

Now, there are online stirrings that an import from Woodley Park, sushi restaurant Sake Club, will be moving in, perhaps as early as this summer. And those rumors are true, Jody Montana, Sake Club's manager, told Express.

The Highland Park's street-level retail and restaurants are particularly well positioned to draw foot traffic, since Irving Street is normally packed with pedestrians walking between the Columbia Heights Metrorail station and the adjacent Mount Pleasant and Adams Morgan neighborhoods to the west. "I think it's a good spot," Montana said.

» "Highland Park" [Official Site]
» "Columbia Heights to Get A Sushi Restaurant!" [Prince of Petworth]
» "Sake Club" [Official Site]

Photos by Michael Grass/Express