![]() The Highline team is soliciting ideas through its Web site,, Bayne says, so you should write in if you're interested in supporting live music. We want to be able to adjust and pivot." The only booking so far is for a band at Highline's Fat Tuesday party. We don't know if they want bands, or if they want DJs and dancing. "We're going to let the people of Crystal City tell us what they want. "We don't mess with music too much ," Bayne says. But while they received permission, and the bar has a stage and sound system, you might not see a band when you show up. The owners did apply for a permit allowing live entertainment. Some of the early buzz about Highline was that it would be a music venue. One nod to the 21st century: There are numerous electrical outlets along the bar fronts for phone charging or to plug in a laptop. Once you're inside, recycled furniture and decorations abound: windows from a disused Philadelphia warehouse hang behind the main bar, which is fronted with reclaimed wood tables are topped with wood from bowling lanes the front "window wall room" is filled with vintage beer garden tables. street artist Kelly Towles, including a caricature of an engineer, cover the walls. (There's also an elevator.) The staircase walls are covered in weathered tin, found in an old Virginia tobacco farm, to create the illusion that "you're climbing the staircase to a highline," Bayne says. Since Highline is on the second floor of its building, most customers will climb a tall set of stairs before entering the bar. ![]() Yes, it's designed to evoke that other Highline. (Photo by Fritz Hahn/The Washington Post) The entrance to Highline involves climbing two long flights of stairs, designed to evoke climbing up to train tracks. Here's what you need to know about the new arrival. If all goes well, Highline will serve its first guests on Monday, Feb. "I'm seeing more people in their 20s and 30s." Highline was supposed to open last fall, but there were construction delays, including "taking out an entire wall to make the window wall, which took a while," Bayne says. "There's a younger feeling on the streets," Bayne says. But the growing number of tech companies arriving in the neighborhood changed his mind. The ceilings are 22 feet overhead, giving the two rooms an extra-airy feeling.īedrock partner Peter Bayne admits that the group was hesitant when real estate developer Vornado approached them about taking the space last year, given that Crystal City's not exactly known as a happening destination. Located in the former Bailey's, a second-story space above McCormick and Schmick's, Highline's most prominent feature is a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that can slide open to let in the breeze on a summer day. The new Highline RxR, which is opening in Crystal City in early February, takes the opposite approach. Bedrock management runs some of Washington's most popular bars, including Penn Social, Buffalo Billiards and Rocket Bar, and most of the properties share common threads: They're large underground spaces with few windows but plenty of diversions, including pool and shuffleboard.
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