Opinion: The GEICO building is leaving and the Friendship Heights landscape is forever changed

Its destruction should serve as a wake-up call

Some places are defined by specific buildings. For more than 20 years, my neighborhood of Friendship Heights was defined by its large, gleaming and glamorous shopping centers—once the “Grande Dames” of retail therapy for the upper-class suburban ladies of Chevy Chase. Yet, another seminal structure defined this era, standing quietly in the shadows like a steadfast modernist monument to the “old” Chevy Chase: the GEICO Building.

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