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Article: Way Seems Clear for Corcoran Addition; Neighbor Loses Appeal to Halt Construction of Gallery Office Building
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 18, 1989
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The office building planned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
delayed for nearly a year because the owners of an adjacent building
objected to its design, has apparently finally cleared its last legal
hurdle.
In 1986, the gallery's trustees first announced plans to build a
structure on the site of an employee parking lot located west of the
main building on New York Ave. NW, adjacent to a building that serves
as international headquarters of United Unions, an organization that
represents four trade unions.
The office-building design sailed through most of the permit
process, despite requests for variances to allow several exemptions
from building codes for the 88-foot-tall structure. But ...