Near Eastern Market: Opening, Re—opening, and Opening Soon
by Larry Janezich
July 3, 2020
Captain Cookie opened up shop yesterday next to Peregrine Espresso on the 300 block of 7th Street, SE. Here’s the link to their website: https://www.captaincookiedc.com/
Sephora Studios at 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue re-opened today after closing in March owing to the spread of COVID-19.
Moorenko’s, a premium ice cream will open its first location in DC this summer in the space formerly occupied by Trickling Springs Creamery at 720 C Street, SE. The opening was first reported by Eater DC https://bit.ly/3gmiFSe – visit Moorenko’s website here: http://moorenkos.com/#our-ice-cream-page
My Cake Theory will succeed the Dawn Price Baby Store which closed in 2019 at 325 7th Street, SE. This is the venture’s first brick and mortar outlet. Find out more about it here: https://www.instagram.com/mycaketheory/?hl=en
And the Eastern Market Metro Plaza Playground is finished; the opening is awaiting a nod from the Department of General Services and could come any day. (Update. It’s open.)
CAPITOL HILL CORNER 
Everyone who can should bring a jug of water up to the new park to water the trees that are dying. It’s easy to tell which ones…their leaves are brown.
If the leaves are brown, the tree is dead. Water will not bring it back to life.
Oh, goodie! Ice-cream, milk, cookies, cake and more ice-cream… well, I suppose we should be thankful there aren’t more nail salons heading our way!
Unmasked customers not social distancing (3 of 4 in pic). Hard pass. This seems so obvious in difficult times for any business.