Baltimore Sun

A Mount Vernon group says it has failed to prevent a 7-Eleven from opening in a former restaurant overlooking the Washington Monument.

City agencies, cultural groups and neighbors pledged $297,000 toward an effort to buy the building and stop the convenience store, but R. Paul Warren, who organized the effort, said his group stopped making offers when the price reached $450,000.

“We reached our limit,” Warren said. “We raised $300,000 in three weeks. That’s not bad.”

Gregory N. Friedman, a real estate investor-broker, bought the former Buttery restaurant on the ground floor of a 19th-century building at Charles and Centre streets this year for $310,000. He tried unuccessfully to market it to local restaurateurs.

Previously:
Group opposes Mt. Vernon 7-11