WASHPO: Picturing the Ideal Anacostia Waterfront
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Images of the Anacostia waterfront were on display downtown one evening last week at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
One easel held a print showing an intersection east of Capitol Hill packed with people and offices. Another showed a leafy park by the Nationals' baseball stadium in Southwest. One showed a riverfront promenade with boats anchored to piers that jutted into a clear blue Anacostia River.
The pictures were artistic renderings. Making the images a reality will take billions of dollars and decades of redevelopment.
The pictures were artistic renderings. Making the images a reality will take billions of dollars and decades of redevelopment.
In March 2000, a memorandum was signed by 20 federal and D.C. agencies pledging to cooperate in the revitalization of the Anacostia and the communities near its banks.
Nine years later, a standing-room-only crowd gathered at the library to learn what progress has been made on the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. It was the second in a series of monthly forums, scheduled on the third Tuesday of each month through June.