Manor Park is a multicultural neighborhood with a rich cultural and business heritage that residents actively support and preserve through commerce and community events.  Here you can find unique, quality products along with DC entrepreneurial history. Businesses like Bene Millinery and Bridal Supplies, The Davis Center, and the V.I.P. Room are still run by pioneering and nationally renowned entrepreneurs who excelled to break barriers to succeed and serve the DC community.     

Joggers, bikers, walkers, and parents pushing strollers provide steady foot traffic to the single-block business corridor located on a pleasant, tree-lined street.   

An eclectic mix of small, mostly family-owned businesses operates from single-story store-fronts offering services such as ethnic and vegan restaurants, bi-lingual daycare centers, a barbershop, boutique retailers, architectural services, and more. 

An aquatics and rec center, historic churches, parks, and architecturally distinctive single-family homes enrich the area’s suburban-like, family-friendly environment. Events like “Screen on the Green” movies in the park, co-sponsored by the Manor Parks Citizens Association & Capitol City Charter School, promote community engagement and fun. 

Economic Revitalization Opportunity

 As a combined retail district, Manor Park and Riggs Park have now become a major retail hub in the city surpassing both Takoma Park and Petworth in overall retail square footage. This growth creates a unique opportunity to position The Parks Main Streets corridors as a unique retail experience in the District with a wide range of balanced retail offerings.  

 
Manor Park

• Goods and Services such as dry cleaners, fresh convenience stores, and more, and Food and Beverage businesses are moderately viable.
• Manor Park’s long-standing retailers and history of low vacancy demonstrate that all types of retail can thrive in the neighborhood.
• With longtime loyal customer bases, between 70 and 80% of Manor Park patrons come from outside the immediate area to shop at these unique longstanding businesses.
• The area is characterized by mostly neighborhood Goods and Services with only two food and beverage establishments.
• As the retail environment in the city continues to evolve, the primary task is to keep this neighborhood’s vital retail resources by working with Manor Park businesses to ensure that each thrives in this environment and continues to appeal to a broad geographic base of people, thereby maintaining low vacancy while preserving the character and vibrancy of the nod.