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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A DJ walked into a narrow two-storey space at Ninth and U in 2003 and said the words every landlord wants to hear: this is the space. DC9 at 1940 9th Street NW opened in February 2004, founded by Bill Spieler - a local DJ and club manager - with nightlife impresario Joe Englert and other partners, in a Shaw building that had already lived through nightlife lives as Metro Cafe, Club Hollywood and Asylum. Spieler read the low ceilings and exposed beams as good acoustics and the double-wide second ...