From
the Post: "
Monument Realty, which has filed a federal lawsuit against Metro over a land dispute, said Friday that the
expansion of the Navy Yard station near the
new Washington Nationals baseball stadium would be completed on schedule. Executives at the District company had threatened to slow work on the project because the transit agency plans to sell
land near the stadium to another development company,
Akridge. Jeff Neal, a Monument principal, said in a written statement that the project would be completed before the start of the 2008 baseball season. 'We have worked diligently and transparently to develop an aggressive timeline,' he said. Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for Metro, said, 'We have every reason to believe that they will fulfill that pledge.' " Monument also stated that the station would be done on time
a few weeks ago in a letter to ANC6D vice chair Andy Litsky and others, which
I posted here. You can see my
Monument Half Street page for more information on the station expansion as well as 55 M Street, the office building that Monument is constructing on top of it. (There's also the
Half Street Web Cam for tracking the progress, but it's been offline for the past few days.
UPDATE: It's back now.)