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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^Speaking of the decade(s) long fight against CC, how is the Fannie Mae development going up so quickly?  Was the zoning different?  Did the neighborhood give up the fight?  When I drive by both I'm confused as to why there was so much protest about CC and I heard/saw nothing about redeveloping Fannie Mae.[/quote]

There was no “decades-long” fight against Cathedral Commons.  Giant proposed a store in 1999 with a block-long blank wall along Wisconsin Ave but withdrew its plans after facing opposition to the deadened streetscape  Giant subsequently entered into an agreement with the Williams admin and with community groups in 2002 to build a new store (with entrances and shops on Wisconsin) to have opened in 2003.  The new store would have been on the one block where Giant presently is. Then Ahold, a Dutch conglomerate, bought Giant and basically breached the signed agreement and did not build a new store.  Five years later, Ahold came back with Cathedral Commons, as a two block development.  Had Ahold not breached the 2002 agreement, there would have been a new store at least 5 years earlier.[/quote]

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