Some will view this lament as a Washington, D.C. thing, but Town Hall closed after fourteen years on Sunday. A long-time staple of D.C.'s Glover Park neighborhood, it's the latest bar/restaurant in the area to shut its doors. Once regularly packed with customers, the creeping norm the last few years had been increasingly empty tables and unclaimed bar stools.
So while it's always dangerous to presume exact correlation, the economic fortunes of Glover Park's businesses have visibly declined since the March 2017 shuttering of Whole Foods. Thanks to a lawsuit between the landlord and the grocery chain, Glover Park's “anchor tenant” as it were has been inoperative. Whole Foods formerly pulled well-healed customers into Glover Park from all over Washington, D.C., but with a lawsuit that's taken on interminable qualities having kept it closed for over 2 1/2 years, foot traffic in Glover Park has fallen.
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