Ryan Avent speculates about how the Pentagon site could be a lot better:

The Pentagon occupies an enormous chunk of land in close proximity to the office, residential, and retail spaces in Pentagon City, abutting the river, and directly on top of a Metro station. Which is all well and good, except that Defense feels that the best way to use much of that land is to cover it in asphalt. Somehow Commerce, Transportation, Treasury, Agriculture, State, and so on get by without acres of surface parking. Why is Defense special?

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.