Unable to Materizlize manhattan_map asset in Dagster Essentials Course

[mtopolskis]

Hello. I am am having difficulty with the Dagster Essentials Course - https://courses.dagster.io/courses/dagster-essentials

I have installed all components, and completed all previous tasks up to Lesson 4 Step 5.

I am stuck on materializing the manhattan_map asset. When I attempt to materialize it, the run starts without error, but it continues indefinitely (I've let it run for around 2 hours before I stepped away and came back to a timeout.
I am running Python in VS code

Before I list my troubleshooting steps and configs, I wanted to reach out and see if there is maybe an issue with this course or this asset specifically and if anyone else has either encountered this issue, or was able to successfully materialize the asset.

Is there a known issue with this course, or am I doing something wrong?