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Article: In NE, a New Start for New Town
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- The Washington Post
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- August 12, 1999
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Three decades after it was first conceived, the Fort Lincoln New
Town at the northeast edge of the District may finally live up its
"new town" moniker.
A new shopping center, a tourist welcome center and an office
building/warehouse complex are being planned, as is a total of 345
new units of housing for the onetime civil war battery, which has
been a work-in-progress since it was proposed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson in 1967.
City officials, community leaders and the Fort Lincoln developer
say they are confident that despite many years of unrealized
promises, at least part of the development now being talked about
will go through.
"The private sector has stepped up to the plate," said ...