D.C. developer moves ahead in sale of building sought by NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?s plans to purchase the Anacostia Gateway building in Southeast D.C. fell through due to the group?s inability to sell its 54,000 square-foot national headquarters in Baltimore in time to meet the developer?s timeline. The property is now back on the market to the next highest bidder.

“It was always a very aggressive time frame that [former NAACP President Bruce Gordon] set,” spokesman Richard McIntyre said. “The purchase was always contingent on our ability to sell our current location and the developer knew that. [Gordon] had thought we would have been able to purchase it by late summer, early fall.”