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Article: Peterson to Build Fort Lincoln Center
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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A prominent Northern Virginia developer plans to build a 400,000-
square-foot shopping center in the Fort Lincoln neighborhood in
Northeast Washington, a project that was first conceptualized more
than three decades ago.
Peterson Cos. of Fairfax has an agreement with property owner Fort
Lincoln New Town Corp. to build a retail center on 45 acres
overlooking New York Avenue near the junction of U.S. Route 50 and
the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
The shopping center would be one of the largest retail centers
proposed in the District in decades, nearly twice as big as the
shopping complex being developed at the site of the D.C. vehicle
impoundment lot on Brentwood Road, also in Northeast.
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