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Gallery Place is a small urban power center in Downtown Washington, D.C. in D.C.'s Chinatown and also in the F Street shopping district, the traditional downtown shopping and entertainment area. It is adjacent to Capital One Arena and the Gallery Place/Chinatown station of the Washington Metro rail is underneath the center.
The Chinese-owned restaurants and businesses in the Chinatown area are largely gone and there has not been a full-service Chinese grocery in the neighborhood since 2005. [ 76 ] A similar stadium project proposed for Philadelphia's Chinatown sparked comparisons in 2023 to the Capital One Arena, and has caused significant community backlash.
Since its opening in 1997, the arena has served as a catalyst of prosperity in Chinatown. Office buildings, high-end condominiums, restaurant chains, movie theatres, and other luxuries have sprung up around Chinatown. On the downside, the growth has forced out many Chinatown landmarks, and only a fraction of Chinatown remains "Chinese". [25]
As a result, D.C.'s Chinatown can be categorized as semiotic landscape different than other Chinatowns. [14] [31] Chinatown has become home to many high-growth technology companies, such as Blackboard, Blue State Digital, LivingSocial, and The Knowland Group. [32] It is also the location of the Washington branch of the Goethe-Institut.
The movie might not have taken place in Vietnam, but it was indirectly about that war, just as 1930s-set “Chinatown” used a decades-old case of institutional corruption to indict the greed ...
Released Title Director Comments Filmed in DC 2022: The 355: Simon Kinberg: 2009: 2012: Roland Emmerich [1]1997: Absolute Power: Clint Eastwood: 2015: Accidental Love
The station reverted to its original name, Gallery Place, on November 3, 2011, with "Chinatown" listed as a subtitle. [7] This station has been a testing ground for new features in Metro stations. In 1993, the station was one of the first Metro stations to receive tactile edging on its platforms. Since 2004, the station has been the site of ...