Who goes to Georgetown anymore? You tell us about the neighborhood’s clientele.

U Street, H Street, Adams Morgan, Penn Quarter and Chinatown. All have emerged, one after another, as the District’s new “it” neighborhoods.

But where does that leave Georgetown? Once the epicenter of D.C. shopping and nightlife, the Northwest neighborhood is less and less a destination for the Washington area’s younger generation.

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“They’re not coming here,” Paul Cohn, president of Capital Restaurant Concepts, said at a panel discussion coordinated by the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the Georgetown Business Association in July. “People are wondering, ‘Why am I going to Georgetown?’ ”

Billy Martin, owner of Martin’s Tavern on Wisconsin Avenue NW and former president of the Georgetown Business Association, agreed. “Everything is downtown.”

Another weakness, said Jim Wilcox, a GBA board member and Georgetown resident, is the loss of a local client base. “There is very little in Georgetown for residents’ needs,” he said.

Although Cohn, Martin and Wilcox paint a picture of a commercial wasteland, a leisurely stroll down M Street NW on a sunny Saturday afternoon is nearly impossible. Shoppers roam in and out of stores; cars battle for parking spaces; the line outside Georgetown Cupcake, now synonymous with Georgetown itself, snakes out the M Street storefront and up 33rd Street without fail.

So — if 20-somethings have been lost to new neighborhoods, and Georgetown residents are reluctant to shop and eat in town — who, exactly, are these people?

Take our poll and tell us what you think.