The shovels await the VIPs at the site of what will be the Lofts at Capitol Quarter, on what's now a parking lot just north of the Navy Yard and east of Van Ness Elementary (right) and the new Twelve12 apartment building with the ground floor Harris Teeter (center). This used to be where the towering
Capper Seniors apartment building stood before it was demolished in 2007.
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