The Lakeforest Mall site has become rather famous (infamous?) in Washington, DC development circles. Your assignment this week is to research the backstory for the site to provide context for our market analysis.

Give a brief history of the site and relate that history to our current market analysis task. Why has it taken so long for the mall to be redeveloped? Identify the largest obstacle to the site's redevelopment (city agencies, owners, market conditions, something else). What are the positive and negative factors right now that affect the site's redevelopment?

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/08/30/viewpoint-when-a-mall-is-not-merely-a-mall.html

https://ggwash.org/view/64533/lakeforest-mall

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lakeforest_Mall