D.C. has too many historical landmarks to mention, but adding a parking lot as one of them? [[this would never fly in Detroit where surface parking lots are about as popular as taxes).

Or, I missed the main point: It is the shopping center which is historic and the parking lot is an essential part of it.

So now shopping centers and parking lots are historic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...y.html?hpid=z3