Developers of Dupont Underground Are Far From the Light at the End of the Tunnel
(Washington Post) — It’s a tough sell: Showcase art or open a restaurant 20 feet below ground in tunnels once used for trolley service and a fallout shelter. It was tried once before, in the mid-1990s with a food court called Dupont Down Under. Within a year that experiment failed. District officials and developers are now moving ahead with new plans to convert tunnels beneath Dupont Circle into art galleries and possibly a restaurant and a winery, akin to several subterranean public parks and retail spaces in Manhattan and France. But officials and artists are skeptical about whether tenants will flock to a space so hidden and removed from the heavily trafficked Connecticut Avenue NW corridor.
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