Matchbox Officially Signs A Lease For A 14th Street Location

Matchbox announced today that it has signed a lease in the old Arena Stage building at 14th and T streets, joining Merrifield as the next step in the restaurant group's grand expansion plans. A rep tells Eater that the plan for this one is to do a "gut rehabilitation" of the building, with the goal of making this location look a lot like Matchbox's most recent outpost in Rockville. So, if everything goes perfectly permit-wise and all — which it almost never does, does it? — then you can hope for a summer 2012 opening.
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