A person walks through the mostly empty second level of the concourse of Union Station in D.C. on Oct. 19, 2022. In one of the nation’s richest Zip codes, a supermarket, shuttered since 2011, sits boarded up, pockmarked with graffiti, an abandoned eyesore marooned for more than a decade in a circular debate over how many and what kind of apartments should be built there.
At Sursum Corda, a crime-infested, depressing 1960s development just off North Capitol Street in the heart of the city, authorities announced plans after the gruesome and revolting murder of 14-year-old Princess Hansen in 2004 toTwo decades later, 60 of those Sursum Corda families this spring finally moved into the spanking new Banner Lane apartments, a snazzy black-brick development that towers over what’s left of the old place.