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From the article:

“The owner of this development, which will be one of the biggest in all of the District, is Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company. This is the real estate investment arm of the emir of Qatar himself, who rules the Gulf nation.”

From your post:

“Why shouldn't they be allowed to dictate what kind of business is conducted on their private property?”

Perhaps in this case, because the “they” is basically the ruler of a foreign country and should not be acknowledged to have the right to come into our country, buy property in a community, then dictate standards which are foreign to that community based on his so-called property rights. If he didn't like the community standards, he didn't have to buy property there.

Of more interest: Why do you lump dry cleaners in with strip clubs and abortion clinics?

then dictate standards which are foreign to that community based on his so-called property rights

In reading the full analysis, then one of the stories linked to (in the CityPaper), apart from not having a bank I'm not sure what standards are being implemented that are actually foreign to the local community.

For instance, they can't have a dedicated liquor store. People would be hard pressed to find on in the DC central core. They can't have a dedicated bar, but the same thing applies - I've lived in DC for 20+ years now and I've never known of a "pure" bar that's not part of a larger restaurant (even the Tune Inn, which was consistently ranked as one of the "Best Bars" in the US, and which just burned, is a restaurant with a bar).

They do allow the sale of alcohol within the context of restaurants. I don't recall that Sharia (I'm not all that familiar with it, admittedly) differentiates on places of sale when it comes to alcohol - I thought it was expressly forbidden under all circumstances.

I'd assume that if the sale and consumption of alcohol is permitted under the auspices of a restaurant, pork products would be the same. You probably could not have a dedicated pork-rending operation, but then again that's not something that I've ever seen in DC anyways.

Considering that the analysis really has little basis to go on (notice how it just asks a lot of questions and then provides speculative answers), I'd conclude that it's just a bunch of agitative nonsense designed to get people riled up.