• The Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (AWC) was a government-owned corporation established in 2004 by the government of District of Columbia, in the United...
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    the Anacostia Freeway (I-295) was constructed. The highway imposed a barrier between the Anacostia neighborhood and the Anacostia River waterfront. Numerous...
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    The Wharf (Washington, D.C.) (category Southwest Waterfront)
    of redeveloping the waterfront gained momentum with District officials in the early 2000s when the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation was created to oversee...
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    of the city. The Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, a city-chartered corporation charged with developing the area along the Anacostia River, has plans...
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    " Washington Post. August 4, 2005. "Anacostia Metrorail Station Redevelopment." Anacostia Waterfront Corporation. No date. Archived June 8, 2009, at the...
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    complicate planning for the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, city officials withdrew their support so that the waterfront development could proceed. Even...
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    contract to complete the Waterfront station. In December 1988, WMATA reaffirmed that the Waterfront, Navy Yard, and Anacostia stations would open in late...
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  • Office of Planning, a former executive vice president of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, and director of programmatic initiatives at the nonprofit...
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    Washington, the National Capital Revitalization Corporation, and the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation. Johns is the Founding Chair of the Washington DC...
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    assistance. Williams proposed turning the two islands over to the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, which was managing the Initiative at the time, and in May...
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    Navy Yard (Washington, D.C.) (category Redeveloped ports and waterfronts in the United States)
    Nationals Park, a notable nightlife scene, and numerous waterfront esplanades. Historically, the Anacostia River was once a deep water channel with natural resources...
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    minutes away from Capitol Hill and the Anacostia and Potomac riverfronts, and a short walk to the Southeast waterfront. The community is adjacent to Hillcrest...
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    buildings in the city include the Wharf on the Southwest Waterfront, Navy Yard along the Anacostia River, and CityCenterDC in Downtown. The Wharf has seen...
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    opened up development of the hilly terrain north of the old city and in Anacostia into streetcar suburbs. Several of the district's streetcar lines were...
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  • District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment Commission, the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, and Clark-Hunt-Smoot Construction, and former Washington Senators...
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    Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge (category Bridges over the Anacostia River)
    Bridge is a through arch bridge that carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 2021 and replaced an older...
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    projects. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in the 18th century, the Anacostia River was a fast-flowing and relatively silt-free river with very few...
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    terminus of K Street. The southern K Street runs between the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, crossing the Southwest and Southeast quadrants (as K Street SW...
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    hundreds of Hoovervilles across the U.S. during the 1930s were those in: Anacostia in the District of Columbia: The Bonus Army, a group of World War I veterans...
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    into Wider Use". The New York Times. "Anacostia & Pacific Company, Inc | New York & Atlantic Railway". Anacostia.com. December 22, 2011. Archived from...
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    has many bridges that cross its two rivers, the Potomac River and the Anacostia River, as well as bridges allowing for pedestrian and vehicular traffic...
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    Washington Nationals in 2005 including the revitalization of the Anacostia waterfront. The following year, Rios became Managing Director of Investments...
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    York area. Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and Jamaica opened on April 18, 1836) and having operated continuously...
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    main Bonus Army camp was actually across the 11th Street Bridges in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., more than three miles away. See: Manchester, "Rock...
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    Frederick W. Smith, the president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corporation and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. The U.S. federal government provided...
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    National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution: American Art Museum Anacostia Community Museum Arts and Industries Building Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian...
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    weather and taking off in rougher water. Service from Wall Street to the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. by Downtown Airlines began in 1974, but the...
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  • (NCRY) Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line (service temporarily suspended) Poway-Midland Railroad Roaring...
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    December 28, 2019. Trescott, Jacqueline (December 21, 1990). "Director for Anacostia Museum; Smithsonian Names Steven Newsome". The Washington Post. Archived...
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    United States. John Kinard, president of the AAMA and co-founder of the Anacostia Community Museum (which became part of the Smithsonian in 1967), opposed...
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