A flurry of new openings - boutique hotels, upscale restaurants and shops catering to stars of the local Telugu film industry, known as Tollywood - is moving the metropolis into the spotlight.
In recent years the others, along Seventh Street Northwest and 14th Street Northwest, have been transformed, with renovations of old row houses, construction of condos and the opening of boutiques and restaurants.
Pierre: We met in September 1976 at the opening of a boutique.
Plans to redevelop this area after the Games include the opening of a boutique hotel.
A family business, privately owned, Alexander Wang now has 12 stores, with a 5,000 sq ft boutique opening this year in Beijing.
In the UK, Repetto is now available from Liberty, Poste Mistress and Asos, with a self-contained boutique opening in Selfridges this August.
Compiling a what's on, what's in column, she went to a boutique opening in Covent Garden where she met a man in a pink sweater, 13 years' younger and gorgeous.
Last year, when the firm made a one-of-a-kind enamel dome clock to honor the opening of its boutique in Beverly Hills, California, Mr. Ruvelson was first in line to buy it, even though he lacked a space for the clock in his own home and ended up lending it back to the boutique, where it remains on semi-permanent display.
The area is still home to many wholesale shops that specialize in costume jewelry and wigs, but the opening of upscale boutique hotels like the Ace Hotel on 29th Street in 2009 and the NoMad Hotel on 28th in 2011 helped set a new standard of trendiness.
