Adams Morgan business leaders are looking to a tale of woe from Dupont Circle to make sure history isn’t repeated when the city begins a $9 million streetscape project this month. The city’s department of transportation is scheduled to start rehabbing a one-mile stretch of 18th Street between Florida Avenue and Colombia Road on Feb. 22, a project that will widen sidewalks, reconfigure the roadway and repair and replace tree boxes and streetlights along the busy commercial corridor. While the project’s intent is to make the area safer for pedestrians and customers, businesses have worried about another “P Street debacle,” referring to a 18-month streetscaping project in Dupont Circle that was so disruptive some restaurants said they lost as much as 60 percent of their business in 2007 and 2008.
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