Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding if the plaza was not renamed.

Developer RioCan is planning to redevelop its Lawrence Plaza property at 534 Lawrence Ave W., opened all the way back in 1953 as what was then the city's first suburban shopping centre.

The announcement from the mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, about “the evolution of Black Lives Matter Plaza” came just a day after Andrew Clyde, a Republican congressman from Georgia, introduced ...