Michael Neibauer

Dinner at Balos Estiatorio, and this was an appetizer. An entrée-sized tomahawk lamb chop. I'm not eating again until August.

Falls Church's shuttered Brown's Hardware, which closed earlier this year after 140 or so years, will be replaced by the rapidly expanding @wonder food hall concept... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Swedish meatballs by the tens of thousands? Ikea exploring full-service restaurant near Dulles airport, miles from its nearest store. From @wbjdan... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Acclaimed D.C. @MichelinGuideNA restaurant Causa faces an eviction threat its owner says is due to vastly changed market conditions. bizjournals.com/washington/new… via @WBJonline

10 years ago, I wrote this story for @WBJonline, "Fixing the Seven Corners of Hell." I spent so much time there researching and being miserable that I hadn't gone back until today. And nothing has changed. It's still an awful, no good place to navigate... bizjournals.com/washington/pri…

Reston government contractor Noblis has inked a full-building lease for a new HQ, this time in the newest part of Reston Town Center... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

A Great Falls couple built a pair of pickleball courts in their front yard. You'll never guess what happened next! @liztrubeck with the great story... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

In D.C. luxury real estate news... It looks like Mark Zuckerberg bought his next-door neighbor's house. Then his former neighbor, a powerhouse lobbyist, bought Chris Wallace's house. bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Did the family of a 218-year-old Italian general pay $20M for a Chain Bridge Road NW mansion? Probably not, but deed records say otherwise... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Was just running through the Live Aid '85 Wembley and JFK lineups with my 12yo, who knows a lot more about popular music than I thought, and he says Philly takes it in a squeaker. I will not argue. angelfire.com/sd/frozenfire/…

Sandbox VR, a virtual reality gaming center, expected to fill Flywheel vacancy at @CityCenterDC. bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Luxury residential real estate brokerage Serhant has quietly launched in the DC area, but I'd expect a big show eventually, as @RyanSerhant likes to open his new offices with a bang... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Stunner here? Georgia Brown's space by McPherson Square to be made available for lease, marketed for "immediate occupancy..." By @WBJDan... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Our prediction confirmed. From last week... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Update on Buc-ee's Stafford location, now that its first store in Virginia is open... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

The @CIA recently paid just shy of $250M for a Chantilly office building, part of the Dulles Discovery campus near the Udvar Hazy Center... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Tesla will open a service center in Springfield, near Costco, its first facility east of Tysons and south of Arlington in N. Va. Should close a huge gap in coverage, capturing not only all of southeastern Fairfax, but also eastern Prince William. bizjournals.com/washington/new…

John Steinbeck came to stay on Hillyer Place NW in 1940, writing to FDR about an imminent "crisis" and asking to meet. That house, where the correspondence between the two still hangs on the wall, is being privately listed for $3.2M... bizjournals.com/washington/new…

Week from today, Buc-ee's opens its first Virginia store in Mount Crawford, off I-81 just south of JMU (2 hours from DC). 74,000sf and 120 fuel pumps. Beaver nuggets, Texas BBQ, a wall of jerky(?). Ribbon cutting 6 a.m. June 30.

Bethesda's unusual NaCl house, literally inspired by a block of salt, is on the market... bizjournals.com/washington/new…