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Article: Fort Lincoln Seeks a New Bounce; Planned Shopping Center, Housing Seen as Critical Impetus for Stalled NE Area
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 10, 2004
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When it first was unveiled as a Great Society showpiece, the Fort
Lincoln new town was envisioned as an urban version of Columbia or
Reston, with grand federal offices and a monorail system.
But for 40 years, Washington's planned community in Northeast has
languished half-built in one of the city's choicest natural settings.
Now, the city's construction boom is reaching Northeast, and city
officials say a proposed shopping center anchored by a Costco -- and
plans to build 300 new housing units -- offer the most solid hope yet
of reversing years of frustrating false starts.
While the takeoff of Fort Lincoln has been predicted decade after
decade, never before have so many ideas been backed ...