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Congregation Rodeph Shalom has worshipped in Center City Philadelphia ever since it was established in 1795.

As workers on the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Silver Line Phase 2 project set the bottom half of the form for one of the aerial guideway straddle bents at Dulles International Airport, Jennifer T. Alcott captured the immense effort.

Just as the Broadway hit “Hamilton” packs the epic biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton into a three-hour rap opera, the $120-million Museum of the American Revolution under construction in Philadelphia ambitiously jams the eight-year war into a tight urban site.

The total value of the 25 contracts that make up this year’s ENR MidAtlantic Top Starts list—which includes projects that got underway in 2015—is down sharply, to $5.7 billion from $10.7 billion in last year’s ranking.

Faced with a looming 2017 deadline to reduce nutrients released into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the City of Baltimore’s Dept. of Public Works is pushing to complete more than $500 million of improvements at its Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.