After 25 years, Washington D.C. may finally be moving forward with developing a 25-acre site formerly the McMillan Sand Filtration Site. The site is a decommissioned industrial site the city purchased in 1987. Since 2007, the city has worked with the joint venture of Vision McMillan Partners to create plans for the site's development.
Vision McMillan Partners and the city want to construction 1 million square feet of medical offices, 146 townhouses, 531 apartments in two buildings, a ground-floor grocery store and other retailing space. The plan also encompasses an eight-acre park and a 17,000-square-foot community center.
If all goes according to plan, groundbreaking for the project could be early next year with the first buildings ready for occupancy by late 2017. The project would create 3,000 construction jobs, 3,200 permanent jobs and $1.2 billion in new tax revenue for the city over 30 years.
However, opponents of the project have been working just as hard to prevent development of the site.
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