Western Portion of South Capitol Mall- Still Doable
Placing the 1345 South Capitol Street real estate project on hold helps maintains the feasibility of building the western portion of the South Capitol Mall; illustration above and following are reverse flips of the 2003 NCPC proposal

The hopefully canceled 1345 South Capitol Street project

Building the western portion of the South Capitol Mall maintains an easier feasibility of building a South Capitol corridor tunnel connecting to the I-395 Center Leg (3rd Street Tunnel).

2003 US NCPC South Capitol Mall- East proposal

This 2003 proposal would have required moving the St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church, and aborting the Nationals Baseball Stadium, or constructing it some 250' eastward.

Doing the reverse flip of the western portion avoids St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church and Nationals Stadium, and would displace dwellings that are nonetheless anticipated to be removed anyway for the sake of new real estate development.

Demolition to Begin for New Demolition Special:
The Continuing Desecration of the Extending the Legacy Plan

Future -- post 2012 -- Eminent Domain for Public Use?

A rendering of 1345 South Capitol Street, a 244-unit residential building under development by Camden. Plans are for construction to start in 2008; site demolition is scheduled for late October/early November 2007. (Rendering from the WDG Architecture web site.) Illustration and caption from Jacqueline Dupree

Land to be cleared for condo project -- 1345 South Capitol Street SW -- which itself conflicts with U.S. National Capital Planning Commission's South Capitol Mall seen on the cover of Extending the Legacy: Planning America's Capital for the 21st Century, and hence will require eminent domain for public use.

Anyone moving into this structure should know of this conflict, and thus understand that it will need to be removed, via eminent domain for public use.

Of course this could be avoided simply if the project were shifted a few hundred feet west.

Then it would ultimately be worth more money because it would be fronting the grand monumental promenade of the South Capitol Mall.

As of this writing, that could still be done.