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Article: Capitol Hill a Hot Office Real Estate Market in Washington, D.C.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- August 23, 2000
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Aug. 24--Capitol Hill has emerged as the District's hot new office market, as space has filled up in other areas around the city.
The American Gas Association, a nonprofit group that lobbies lawmakers on behalf of the nation's natural-gas companies, is an example of one of several tenants that have moved to the Hill in the last 18 months. Its officials had grown tired of traveling every day from Arlington, where the group was based for almost 30 years, to Capitol Hill.
So last year, the group pulled up stakes and moved to Congress' front stoop, leasing 35,000 square feet of office space on the Hill.
Spokeswoman Daphne Magnuson said the move has ...