Good news if you are a smoker or vaper: a reader sent this photo of 3459 14th Street NW, a vacant storefront that formerly was home to Cooper Hardware. Cooper has been closed for some time and the building was considered vacant and blighted by the city.
The reader noted that the windows are covered over but the lights were on and there seemed to be work going on inside. The business licenses for the building say grocery, tobacco and “patent medicine” (as in over the counter) so I am guessing it’s a convenience store that will also sell tobacco and vape products.
I’m not really a smoker or vaper but lots of people are, so it makes sense there would be a place to buy related things. I would assume this means the non-marijuana variety of smokeables. As the tipster said it’s not the fanciest use of the building but it’s also always nice to have an empty building get filled with something productive.
Here’s the building before. Looks like they reused the Cooper sign.
from Google Streetview
