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Named after the former swamp it's found on, Foggy Bottom sits between Downtown, Dupont Circle and Georgetown and is sometimes called the West End. It's best known not for its rowhouses or embassies, but as home to George Washington University, the Kennedy Center and the Watergate complex.

In a perfect world Foggy Bottom would be a lot different. In a perfect world it be one of Washington's best neighborhoods. Sandwiched between Downtown and Georgetown with direct access to the Potomac River, there's no good reason why Foggy Bottom shouldn't have become a grand entry-point to the city; a magnificent waterfront portal. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world, and Foggy Bottom bears little resemblance to that fantasy. Instead, the waterfront is occupied by the modernist and intruding Watergate complex and Kennedy Center, unwelcoming to pedestrians and cut off from the city by the spidering ends of I-66. The Kennedy Center is a particularly unfortunate case, since well designed performing arts centers (as well as theater districts) are usually great assets to a neighborhood. Imagine the kind of excitement and energy the uses of the Kennedy Center would generate if located in the center of town. That is what’s lost at Foggy Bottom, and that’s why it falls well short of its lofty potential.