Is the golden age of Woodley Park’s anchor as a convention and meeting site coming to a close? The Post reports that the Marriott Wardman Park hotel may be sold for $200 million and a new developer, Chevy Chase’s JBG, hopes to convert part of its complex into condominums, similar to Monument Realty‘s plans to convert the Watergate’s hotel into condos.

The Wardman Park, the city’s largest hotel, and the Omni Shoreham have brought countless visitors to the Woodley Park neighborhood over the years. But now that the new Washington Convention Center is up and running and has driven convention traffic to Mount Vernon Square and surrounding downtown neighborhoods, Woodley Park could downshift slightly as a hotel and conference anchor.

What could that mean? Fewer tourists blocking the long metrorail escalators at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan station? Perhaps, but not very likely, as the National Zoo is still in the neighborhood.

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