Transit casestudyTHe NercHeoRHooD that has become NoMa (short for north of Massachusetts Avenue), now home to luxury apartments, high-end offices, and dozens of construction cranes raising new buildings, just ten years ago was marked by abandoned warehouses, windswept parking lots, vacant propefties, and a methadone clinic. Located just a few blocks north of the U.S. Capitol and the busy Union Station raitway hub, the area was adjacent to elevated transit tracks but was not served by a station. Now, eight years after a remarkable financial collaboration by the federal government, the District of Columbia, and local landowners heloed buitd a new_infitl transit station, the area is undergoing a transformation.