Skip to main content

Tom’s Watch Bar brings big video sports bar to Navy Yard

By Jeff Clabaugh

Denver-based Tom’s Watch Bar is bringing one of its large video-centric sports bars to a location a half block from Nationals Park in D.C.

The sports bar and restaurant has signed a lease for 7,800 square feet at 1250 Half St. SE, part of the recently-completed Kelvin apartments, and will open next summer.

Tom’s bills its sports bars as a cutting-edge, 360-degree viewing experience. The Navy Yard location will have hundreds of wall-to-wall screens with a central oversized stadium screen.

A rendering of Tom’s Watch Bar. (Courtesy Tom’s Watch Bar)

The menu will include tacos, prime rib dip sandwiches, burgers, wings and dozens of beers on tap.

The Navy Yard location will be the seventh location for Tom’s Watch Bar. The original opened in Denver about 10 years ago. It now has locations at Coors Field in Denver, at casinos in Connecticut and Washington state, and others in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Tom’s is one of several new leases KLNB has brokered for Kelvin owner Jair Lynch.

Also opening at the location next year will be Tropical Smoothie Cafe and high-intensity fitness center F45 Training.

Previously announced leases for the same location include Silver Diner, which plans a two-story location and its first traditional diner in the District, and Swingers Crazy Golf, which will open the second D.C. location for its indoor mini-golf, bar and restaurant.

Swingers opened its first D.C. location earlier this summer in Dupont Circle.

Massachusetts court hears arguments in lawsuit alleging Meta designed apps to be addictive to kids

By The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state's lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The lawsuit, filed in 2023 by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alleges that Meta did this to make a profit and that its actions affected hundreds of thousands of teenagers in Massachusetts who use the social media platforms. “We are making claims based only on the tools that Meta has developed because its own research shows they encourage addiction to the platform in a variety of ways,” said State Solicitor David Kravitz, adding that the state's claim has nothing to do the company's algorithms or failure to moderate content. Meta said Friday that it strongly disagrees with the allegations and is “confident the evidence will show our longstanding commitment to supporting young people.” Its attorney, Mark Mosier, argued in court that the lawsuit “would impose liabilities for performing traditional publishing functions” and that its actions are protected by the First Amendment.
Read Next Story

Related News

Panels aim to demystify angel investing for women

Kraft Heinz pauses plans to split into 2 companies, says its problems are ‘fixable’

Surprising jobs report leaves federal workers in the cold