Blake Real Estate: Banana Republic to take Talbots spot on Connecticut Avenue

Blake Real Estate Inc. has finally found a tenant for the shuttered Talbots on Connecticut Avenue NW. Banana Republic has a ???pending lease??? for the three-story, 10,040-square-foot storefront, according to a document Blake filed with the D.C. Zoning Commission in connection with an unrelated redevelopment. Talbots closed more than three years ago. The unrelated Blake project, the subject of a planned-unit development now before the commission, is a new office building proposed for 2100 K St.???