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Welcome to the Buzzard Point Project Website!
This website is a living repository of the artifacts generated from research, interviews and engagement Georgetown University students and faculty generated in their work in the Buzzard Point community. This project started as an opportunity to examine environmental justice and gentrification in one of DC’s most unique communities in the tradition of Laudato si’. It…
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A Buzzard Point History
HOW PERMITS, PLANS, AND LAWSUITS SHAPED AND CONTINUE TO RESHAPE A COMMUNITY. In this brief, we researched the history of Buzzard Point through the lens of permitting, regulations, urban planning, and lawsuits. We start in 1800 and view the succession of events leading to the new vision for the SW Waterfront. The result is what…