WaPo article on the closing of Bloomingdale's Jak & Co. Hairdressers: "After 50 years, a DC store will close 'due to gentrification' "

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After 50 years, a D.C. store will close ‘due to gentrification’

By Perry Stein April 10 at 6:00 AM

D.C. native Latosha Jackson-Martin wants the blunt sign she posted outside her father’s 50-year-old hair salon in Bloomingdale to remind residents that the neighborhood they see today isn’t the way it always was.

“Due to ‘gentrification’ and mixed emotions Jak and Company Hairdressers will be closing,” the sign reads.

Jackson-Martin’s father, William Jackson, opened Jak & Co. Hairdressers downtown 50 years ago, and moved it to now-trendy Bloomingdale in 1988. For much of its past quarter-century, the store has been surrounded by a laundromat, a uniform business and liquor stores with Plexiglass windows.

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“Some good things must come to an end,” she said. “It served my dad’s purpose to feed his family and help the community as best he could.”