The days are evidently numbered for the most famous — maybe the only famous — parking garage in Northern Virginia.
The building at 1401 Wilson Blvd., in Rosslyn, is home to the garage in which Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met with a source known as Deep Throat during the critical days of the Watergate investigation.
That building, and the one at 1400 Key Blvd., have been targeted for demolition for years, but developer Monday Properties is finally getting ready to start work, the Washington Business Journal reports.
The project to replace the buildings was first approved in 2014, and approval is scheduled to expire June 14, but the Washington Business Journal reports that it’s likely to be extended, and that two tenants of the building are getting ready to leave.
Monday Properties told the publication only that it’s “coordinating everything directly with the retail tenants and has no other details to share at this time.”
The plan would replace the Key Boulevard building with a 32-story residential tower including a grocery store. The Wilson Boulevard building would be replaced by a 29-story tower combining offices and retail.
Deep Throat gave Woodward information and guidance during The Washington Post’s investigation of the Watergate scandal. The combined work of the newspaper and congressional investigators exposed President Richard Nixon’s lawbreaking. He resigned in 1974, the only American president ever to do so.
Woodward said he had promised not to reveal the source’s true identity until they had died. In 2005, however, Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI, came forward as the source. He died in 2008.
There’s a historical marker on the site; officials have said it will remain after the garage is demolished.
Featured image courtesy Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Wikimedia Commons
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