DSW Steps Into Former Borders Store
The Friendship Heights storefront—empty for many months—will soon be occupied by the discount shoe store.
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After many months of waiting, we have an answer to the question of what will replace the Borders bookstore.
Bargain-hunting shoe lovers rejoice: DSW is coming to the neighborhood.
The Friendship Heights storefront (at 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC) has been closed for about a year, save for a few months last autumn, when a temporary Halloween costume store moved in, followed by the temporary lease of the space by neighboring high-end furniture store Roche Bobois for its overflow holiday stock.
Last week, a small but not insignificant sign appeared in the papered-over window, announcing DSW's imminent arrival.
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Naynay Vieira
2:02 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Yayyy! I guess it is good news. It is better to have a shoe store in there than an empty space waiting for another Mexican or McD restaurant to open.
Marty Chase
7:31 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
I think DSW is planning three new stores in DC---one at the former Borders in Friendship Heights, another in Columbia Heights and a third downtown on Connecticut Ave.