Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, August 31, 2007

What is the best retail store restroom in DC?

Writes Heather Strang of the Retail Design Diva blog and the trade magazine Display and Design Ideas:

...we would love to get your nomination for best retail bathroom in D.C. Leave your comment at Best Bathrooms in Retail

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What say you? What are the best retail (not restaurant, not hotel) store-provided restrooms in the City of Washington? Home Depot? Macy's? Some hip chic boutique that I don't know about? The restrooms down the corridor at Georgetown Park Mall?

(There was a bakery-cafe called Wheatberry in Cleveland Park that had an extra very nice sink in the hallway approaching the restrooms... And I was weirded out for a time when the Front Page Restaurant had a restroom attendant. I mean, this was the Front Page, not 1223...)
Entryway to Jungle Jims restrooms
Jungle Jims International Market in Ohio was the winner of the annual best restroom contest sponsored by Cintas. Entryway. Photos from Cintas.

inside Jungle Jims restroom
Interior.

Restrooms matter for commercial districts because when people can refresh themselves, they stay longer.

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