D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has organized a meeting between the feds and local officials over the proposed closure of part of I-395 to accommodate a construction project, a possibility Norton says she and other members of Congress were unaware of until reports from the Washington Post and NBC4.

The meeting between regional officials, the Federal Highway Administration and the D.C. Department of Transportation will take place on Thursday. Developers behind the $1.5 billion Capitol Crossing project want to shutdown I-395 between New York Avenue and D Street NW for more than a year, as the Post reported, to expedite the process.

“The possible plan, a federal highway project to shut down a portion of the highway to allow development over I-395, which would displace 90,000 cars each day, became known to most Members of Congress through news reports,” Norton’s office said in a release.

“Not even my office received notice or copies of the correspondence between DDOT and FHWA, regarding the alternatives for possible partial or full closure of this D.C. section of I-395 and the implications,” Norton said. “Impacts of a closure would fall directly not only on the District, whose streets in the area are already saturated, but equally on regional and D.C. residents, who need participation, time and planning before a major highway is closed.”

As part of the Capitol Crossing project, a deck will be built over I-395’s entrance at Massachusetts Avenue NW to reconnect F and G streets NW. What will D.C. area residents sacrifice for an Eataly?