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Music Museum Site Proposed for DC

WASHINGTON, DC--Billion-dollar complex of hotel, shopping and museum would replace convention center. Project could help turn Penn Quarter into entertainment and cultural center.

By Mike Cleary | Updated on August 01, 2000

Federal and local officials backing a 250,000-sf national music museum want to locate it on the site of the existing Washington Convention Center and build it as part of a $1-billion hotel and shopping complex. The Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Federal City Council, a local group of business and political leaders, have pushed for a music museum without specifying its location. Now they have told DC and Mayor Anthony Williams that the Washington Convention Center site at New York Avenue and Ninth, 11th and H streets NW is the best location.

The mayor has just named a task force of political and business leaders to advise him on what should be done with the site when the new, larger convention center opens. It is now under construction at Mount Vernon Square.

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