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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, the Giant is in a new building, but that took a decade.[/quote]

A new store would have been built a lot faster had Giant/Ahold not breached a 2002 agreement with the Williams Administration under which they agreed to build the new store.  At the time, Ahold was under investigation from securities fraud, so perhaps it lost focus.  The breach showed that Giant's word stinks about as much as its fish, and delayed a new store for several years.[/quote]

A new store would have been built a lot faster if the original 1999 proposal hadn't been opposed by a bunch of NIMBYs, pre-Ahold. It also would have been one story, not touched the north parcel and had openings on Wisconsin Avenue.

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This would have been great.  I loved the shops on the old north parcel, and don't like how Cathedral Commons turned out.  Poor design and way too much concrete.[/quote]

This.  And who had the dumb idea to build a smaller Starbucks that what existed on the site previously?

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