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Ted Kennedy’s former Georgetown home sells for $12M

One of D.C.’s most expensive homes is off the market, finally.

The estate at 1607 28th St. NW in Georgetown has sold to Evermay Georgetown LLC for $12 million, according to D.C.’s Recorder of Deeds. That is the same LLC that owns Evermay, the neighboring Georgetown estate acquired by Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno, the then-married founders of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and S&R Foundation, in 2011 for $22 million. They have since divorced.

The foundation also owns the Halcyon House at 3400 Prospect St. NW, which serves as home to the Halcyon nonprofit, and the former Fillmore School at 1801 35th St. NW.

All told, between the residential and foundation properties, entities tied to the Sucampo founders have spent at least $61.5 million on Georgetown real estate since 2011. That’s more than double what Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos spent to buy the former Textile Museum and his newest acquisition, 2325 S St. NW, across the street.

We have reached out, via Halcyon, to Kuno and will update…

Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.

Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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