There's another lawsuit challenging the McMillan redevelopment.
This time, it's federal.
Updated: May 20, 2021, 2:02pm EDT
Alex Koma
Staff Reporter
Washington Business Journal
Critics of the McMillan Sand Filtration site redevelopment
have tried just about everything to
slow its progress — and now they’re heading to federal court.
This time around, four
opponents of the project say the District’s
attempts to demolish some of the existing structures on the 25-acre site would
run afoul of the terms of the deed the city signed to purchase McMillan from
the federal government in 1987. They allege D.C. would violate federal historic
preservation law by moving ahead with the redevelopment, asking the U.S.
District Court for D.C. to issue an injunction blocking the project.
Lawsuits are nothing new for the
proposed 2.1 million-square-foot project, one of the most tortured in the
city’s history. McMillan’s would-be developers — a team of the District,
Trammell Crow, EYA and Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners — have
been fending off legal challenges of
one kind or another basically ever since proposing
the redevelopment in 2014.
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