One of Alexandria’s public-housing projects will receive about $10 million in federal dollars through a tax credit program that officials had not expected to qualify for.

The Station at Potomac Yards, which includes four stories of public housing built atop a new fire station, had originally been rejected from the program. It was one of three affordable- or public-housing projects in the city that didn’t receive federal funding under preliminary rulings last month.

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