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Nationals Park. The planned soccer stadium at Buzzard Point (and the willingness to do a below-market trade of the Reeves Center to get land for it). The streetcar. 
Not the council but DCHA spent a ton of money on the redevelopment of Capper/Carrollsburg into Capitol Quarter and surrounding buildings, and to a less-successful extent, redevelopment near Sursum Corda and Park Morton.

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While stadiums and street cars may be designed to stimulate development, they are not direct subsidies to developers, which is what I believe PP was referring to.  And of course DCHA had to do something about its aging public housing - if they did not do a Hope VI/New Communities mixed income development, they would have had to spend money to rehab the old units.  That is not really a subsidy to developers.

Also I would question whether the sports stadiums are really justified mostly on development. I have followed the soccer debate, and lots of opponents have pointed out there are other, cheaper, ways to stimulate development in Buzzards Point - the response is mostly that soccer is itself a public benefit. Indeed we see DC pols wanting the Skins back, though their presence would likely harm development in Hill East.   I don't think developers should be blamed for pols' sports mania.
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