Major League Baseball stadiums are kind of depressing in December.  Seriously, look at this and tell me something different:

Fortunately there’s something going on nearby that’s pretty cool.  Diagonal from the stadium is a building formerly occupied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and now sitting empty waiting for demolition.  It’s all part of the massive redevelopment in the blocks surrounding Nationals Park.

What do you do with a lame duck building?  Let artists have at it.

I brought my camera into work last week to take pictures of the area around the Capitol all decked out for Christmas, then read an article in the Washington Post about the art project (reminding me of something my mom had already told me).  So after work, I hopped the Metro down there and found three of the giant murals:

After walking by this building a million times in the past few years, it’s great to see something other than an old ugly structure.  If only the art didn’t have to disappear when the building does.

In case you’re curious, the site is due to become “office buildings, with ground-floor retail” according to the awesome website JDLand.com, which has more details about development in that part of the city than you could ever want to know.