D.C. needs housing. Why has it taken 25 years to build on this parking lot?
When Metro selected a developer to turn the parking lot next to its Takoma station into housing, Wikipedia and Gmail didn't exist, the 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan hadn't started, and Donald Trump hadn't yet appeared on 'The Apprentice.'
Twenty-five years later, no shovel has even pierced the ground of what is still a parking lot in a corner of Northwest D.C. But the project finally appears to be moving forward, with EYA, the Bethesda-based company that won the contract, hoping to start building next year.
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