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1938: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. The area consists of mostly wooded spaces with small farms. The proposed future developments are super-imposed with black and red outlines.

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1965: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Wooded spaces are being converted to residential neighborhoods. The campus is taking shape. The West Gate area, and future proposed development is super-imposed with black and red outlines.

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1977: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. More residential spaces, a lot of parking lots are visible. Many of the area campus buildings have been built. The proposed future developments are super-imposed with black and red outlines.

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1980: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. More residential spaces are being developed. The proposed future developments are super-imposed with black and red outlines.

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1984: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Similar to the slide for 1984, a lot of residential space is being developed as well as campus buildings. The proposed future developments are super-imposed with black and red outlines.

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1988: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, US Geological Survey. The black lines representing residential development have been removed, the red outlines representing other development has expanded to include more of the map.

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1994: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, US Geological Survey.  The redlines depicting proposed development has expanded to include more of the map.

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2000: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, Copyright Maxar Technologies. Some cloud cover obscuring part of campus in the image. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2001: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, Copyright Maxar Technologies. More campus buildings have been completed, and some visible construction.

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2002: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, U.S. Geological Survey. The trees in the wooded areas do not have leaves suggesting this satellite photo was taken between lat fall and early spring. More of the residential space and campus is visible, campus contruction continues.

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A second 2002: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, U.S. Geological Survey. The trees in the wooded areas are full of leave suggesting this image was captured between late spring and early fall. Construction on a number of campus buildings look to have been completed.

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2005: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, Copyright Maxar Technologies. Green trees, a lot of activity on campus. the red outlined depicting proposed development have not changed over the last number of slides.

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2006: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, Copyright Maxar Technologies. Trees have started to change colors, suggesting it is mid-fall. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2007: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, U.S. Geological Survey. Image looks to have been takin early to mid-spring, so more buildings are visible among the wooded areas. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2008: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Farm Service Agency. Not much visible change other than the seasons, which looks like mid-fall depicted by the color of leaves for some of the trees. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2009: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, USDA Farm Service Agency. Difficult to see changes as there is a lot of tree cover. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2010: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. A fair amount of the wooded area has been removed to make way for construction near residential spaces.

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2011: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth, USDA Farm Service Agency. The new construction site near the residential spaces takes shape with a visible road. Red outlining depicting planned developement has not changed.

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2012: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. The construction site near the residential area is more developed with a few completed, or near completed single family homes. There are also more visible construction sites on campus.

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2014: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. More single family homes have been built in the new residential area, some of the construction projects visible on campus have been completed as well.

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2015: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. The image was taken between late fall and early spring, so the residential areas with newer housing are easier to see.

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2016: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. Most of the visible construction has been completed. It seems there are a few more houses being built in the residential areas.

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2017: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. Construction in the residential area looks complete. It's difficult to see any other changes as there is a lot of tree cover in the satellite photo.

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2018: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. There is less tree cover so it's easier to see the results of the new construction of single family housing, and campus buildings.

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2019: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. Construction has begun near the campus entrance

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2020: Bird's eye view of the West Gate Area in College Park, MD. Attribution: Google Earth. Construction is continuing near the campus entrance.