The District is still stuck in a pandemic funk.What killed DC was the rioters. Buildings all over downtown were boarded up for over a year. So many of those spaces are now empty. Also, in the stupid attempt to fake a crisis, a huge area around the Capitol was fenced off and parking was not permitted across the entire downtown area. Areas that were not shut down by rioters or the government itself are doing fine.
Thinking about it more, it was the fake Jan 6 “crisis” as much as the rioters. And both events were manufactured by the local and Federal governments.
There are buildings still boarded up from the riots when Pres. Trump was inaugurated. The WuFlu lockdowns just sped up the decay.