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Envision Courthouse
Survey on Design and Historic Resources

Envision Courthouse
Survey on Design and Historic Resources

There is something historic in everything — help raise the awareness of the important resources at the Courthouse Metro. A process is under way to study the future of the Courthouse Metro Station area. Everything is on the table — including historic resources such as facade preservation (COSI and other buildings), living historic memorials (The Mothers’ Tree), monuments (Veterans Memorial) and better interpretation of Fort Woodbury, one of the many forts that made up the “Arlington Line” and protected Washington,…

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Upcoming Meeting: Envision Courthouse Square

Upcoming Meeting: Envision Courthouse Square

The Envision Courthouse Square is a community planning effort to re-imagine the county’s civic center and create a great public destination. The goal is to update the 1993 Sector Plan and create a visionary plan, strategies, policies, development standards and implementation steps. One of the goals is to understand and include cultural resources and the treatment of historic features, public art, and a potential cultural facility. Historic preservation is an important part of the past and the future in this…

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