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Article: At Capitol Park, Unhappy Days Are Here Again;Inauguration Increases Demand for SW Complex's Hotel Rooms and Makes Some Regular Tenants Miserable
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- The Washington Post
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- January 14, 1993
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A lobby full of strangers, a 15-minute wait for the elevator and
mounds of empty pizza boxes and other hallway trash are what Audrey
Austin says Inauguration Week will mean for her and her neighbors.
She's seen it before.
Every major demonstration, Mall display of the AIDS Quilt and
opening of Congress, Austin said, brings busloads of strangers to her
apartment building in Southwest Washington.
Austin, a D.C. school administrator, has rented a two-bedroom unit
at 800 Fourth St. SW for 20 years. Within walking distance of Metro,
the Mall, the Capitol and the waterfront, the eight-story high-rise,
Capitol Park Apartments and Suites, is one of the most convenient
locations in the city.
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