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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I should stop peddling it? Read the articles from the time. It is all well documented. Maybe you should stop lying about the role the community played in delaying the project and then retroactively complaining about the aesthetics.[/quote]

As you say, read the articles at the time.  Turns out, the Giant-DC Office of Planning-Community agreement was even earlier, in 2002 not 2003.  Giant promised to build the new store by 2003, but then reneged.  The community could have had a new store 11 or 12 years earlier had Giant not breached the agreement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/05/07/giant-neighbors-reach-deal-on-renovations/162860a5-5593-46ce-9351-8baba983985c/?utm_term=.faf4bfdebd29[/quote]

You conveniently omit the 1999-2000 part of the history. It should have been completed by 2002 as a one and one half story development and no tower on the north parcel.[/quote]

Two or three years is not "more than 10."  The Post article makes clear that the community did not want a blank wall along Wisconsin Ave., as Giant originally proposed.  After initial opposition to that plan and subsequent negotiations with Giant and the District, the 2002 agreement for a new store was signed.  Giant was supposed to have opened the new store, with a vibrant Wisconsin frontage, in 2003.  Giant breached the agreement, however.  Had Giant acted with integrity, the community would have had a new store by 2003.  Don't put this on the GGW "NIMBY boogeyman."[/quote]

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