A half-century after the decline of Black Broadway, a redevelopment plan seeks to reimagine the aging Reeves building and revitalize ties to the corridor’s history.
She had a favorite spot on U Street back in the ’50s when it was still called Black Broadway: Bohemian Caverns, the basement jazz club beneath a Black-owned pharmacy that had been decked out to feel like you were entering a cave. Virginia Ali says her memory isn’t as good as it once was — although it remains a near-encyclopedic map of the famous corridor in its heyday.The 89-year-old owner of D.C.
Reeves CMC Venture — which includes a number of development and design partner firms — will lead the redevelopment, which grew out of an initiative Bowser launched to Reeves CMC Venture’s proposal calls for creating an outdoor public plaza named for Frederick Douglass and a 200-seat outdoor amphitheater named forin an effort to revitalize the area after the 1968 riots. In the latest revamp, retail space is expected to include a Dave Chappelle Comedy Club and a new restaurant concept from Food Network celebrity chef Carla Hall.
to world-class opera singer Madame Lillian Evanti, frequented the strip. More than 300 Black-owned businesses populated the area, lined with Black churches and community centers, as well as Black banks where residents could get a loan without fear of discrimination, according to the book“Everybody knew each other on a first-name basis,” said Richard Lee, whose parents founded Lee’s Flower Shop on U Street in 1945, now run by his daughters.
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