McMillan redevelopment scores more time to let court challenge play out
Updated: May 3, 2019, 11:09am EDTAlex Koma, Staff Reporter
Washington Business Journal
One of D.C.’s most notoriously delayed developments is getting some extra time to move forward, assuming it can survive a court challenge.
The
District’s Zoning Commission earlier this week agreed to extend zoning
approvals for a portion of the long-slated McMillan Sand Filtration site
project. The project’s backers have another two years to start work, whenever a
legal challenge to
the effort is finally
resolved.
The $720
million project looked poised to finally move forward last spring, but the
group Friends of McMillan Park renewed their attempts to block the effort in
the D.C. Court of Appeals. The 25-acre site has been targeted for redevelopment
for decades now, but has persistently faced complaints from neighbors that the
project is ill-suited for the neighborhood due to the height and density of its
buildings.
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