In fact, on Mount Pleasant Street, not a single store was damaged, not one pane of glass broken. Expensive restaurants are one of the major symptoms of gentrification, but Mount Pleasant Street has always had a healthy ratio of affordable to high-end food. Mount Pleasant Street has two national chain stores (a 7-Eleven and a Subway) and three places to wire money to your home country. The devastating death toll from the coronavirus is a reminder that Mount Pleasant was born in another national catastrophe: the Civil War. In 2003, developers proposed building condominiums to replace the former gas station occupied by Wilson Amaya’s Mount Pleasant Auto Repair at the south end of Mount Pleasant Street.

Source: Washington Post January 25, 2021 15:11 UTC