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 In answer to many of your questions, yes, the Rosslyn parking garage where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward secretly met FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, a.k.a. Deep Throat, during the Watergate investigation, is being targeted for demolition. 
 
 I wrote an article last Thursday on Monday Properties and its plan to tear down a pair of aging office buildings, including 1401 Wilson Blvd., to make way for nearly 1 million square feet of commercial and residential space. As several of you asked me since then, the parking garage at 1401 Wilson, and spot 32D where Woodward and Felt exchanged notes on the Nixon administration, would be torn down to make way for one of the two new buildings. 
 
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 Mind you, Monday only recently submitted its plans for the project and it will likely take some time for it to work through Arlington County's approval process. Monday Executive Vice President Tim Helmig said he does not expect to be able to start work at the site until 2016 or 2017. At the same time, Helmig said he appreciates the history of the site and will try to come up with a way to honor it appropriately. 
 
 "We obviously think the location where Mr. Woodward and our friend Mark Felt met is certainly an integral part of a much broader historical event," Helmig said. 
 
 Arlington County erected a historical marker outside the garage in 2011, and Helmig said Monday Properties will try to find a way to commemorate the internal spot of the deep-background meetings in the new development. But he said the garage is aging and would be difficult to preserve as part of a redevelopment. 
 
 "The garage is at the end of its useful life, and with the redevelopment the configuration of the garage itself is going to change," he said. 
 
 The location, of course, is a sort of mecca for many working journalists, the physical embodiment of how impactful reporting can be. Woodward gleaned information from Felt for Washington Post stories on Watergate that would help put an end to Richard Nixon's presidency. The notion was not lost on Washington Business Journal Managing Editor Rob Terry, who brought his son by the garage during a bring-your-child-to-work day and posted this entry in a blog: 
 
 • 9:55 a.m.: Will’s hungry. Sensing a theme, I decide to run to the nearby Safeway to stock up for the day. I also take the opportunity to show him around Rosslyn a bit, including one of my favorite spots — parking space 32D in the Wilson Boulevard underground garage where Bob Woodward met with "Deep Throat," his secret source in the Watergate investigation. I try explaining to Will what’s historically important and inspiring about this location when you do what I do for a living. “But Dad, how can a parking space be famous?” he asks. “It’s complicated, buddy.'" Daniel J. Sernovitz covers commercial real estate. ||||| One of the most historic journalism sites of the past half-century will soon vanish, following a decision by the Arlington County Board on Saturday to demolish the building and parking garage where FBI official Mark Felt secretly met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate investigation. 
 
 The County Board unanimously agreed to allow Monday Properties to replace its two 12-story, 1960s-era buildings at 1401 Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn with a 28-story residential tower and a 24-story commercial building. 
 
 The parking garage beneath the existing building will be razed, although the county will save the historical marker it erected in 2011, and the landowner has pledged to create a commemorative memorial to the events that occurred there. 
 
 The plans for demolition became public 10 months ago; the developer said the design process will take two more years, with demolition no earlier than January 2017. 
 
 Plans for the new buildings and a two-level public park prompted praise from elected officials Saturday, with County Board Chairman Jay Fisette (D) asking, “What’s not to like?” The project will transform an entire block in the heart of Rosslyn. 
 
 
 
 The 1400 block of Wilson Blvd redevelopment project. (Courtesy of Monday Properties) 
 
 “This is a terrific project,” Fisette said. “Don’t forget it’s bringing residents to Rosslyn, a grocery store . . . a beautiful park . . . and substantial community benefits, including $8 million for affordable housing, which will build far more units in our community than if they had been [built] on site.” 
 
 In addition to the residential high-rise, the project will bring 513,004 square feet of office space with 11,131 square feet of ground-floor retail space, said Tim Helmig, president and chief executive of Monday Properties. He said that’s 30 percent more than the existing office space. He expressed confidence that the county’s high vacancy rates will decline by the time the new development is on the market. 
 
 The two-level park on the northeast corner of the triangular lot will have direct access to a grocery store and will be reached by stairs, a ramp and two elevators. The developer also plans to remove the Fort Myer Drive tunnel and improve the skywalk to the Rosslyn Metro station. 
 
 Helmig said after the meeting that his family considers the property’s brush with history “neat.” 
 
 Parking spot 32D inside the ground-level garage is where Felt, who was dubbed “Deep Throat” by a Washington Post editor, provided Woodward with information that exposed the Nixon administration’s obstruction of the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Felt, then the second-highest official in the FBI, chose the garage as an anonymous, secure location and met with the little-known reporter in the dark of night six times between October 1972 and November 1973. 
 
 The Watergate scandal resulted in President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation in 1974. 
 
 Monday Properties has agreed to spend $750,000 on public art, and just as the decision about the art will be open to public input, so will the choice of “a commemorative or marker that respects the events of history regarding the Watergate event,” Helmig said. 
 
 While the old parking garage will be removed, the new project will have six levels of below-grade parking, including 816 parking spaces and 219 bicycle spaces.
– A little bit of American history looks to be destined for the rubble heap. A developer in Rosslyn, Virginia, has submitted plans to tear down the parking garage where "Deep Throat"—aka FBI agent Mark Felt—told his secrets to Bob Woodward, reports the ArlNow blog. Unless preservationists make a strong case, the garage will be turned to dust in 2016 or 2017, reports the Washington Business Journal. A historical marker already marks the site that launched the Watergate scandal, and developer Monday Properties says it will make sure that some kind of marker adorns the eventual new office building. It's just that "the garage is at the end of its useful life," says one of its execs. For the record, it was parking spot 32D that led to Nixon's downfall.