MidCity recently broke ground on a 108-unit multifamily apartment building at 1400 Montana Avenue NE, in Washington, DC. Located in the Brentwood census tract, a designated Opportunity Zone, the $33 million project is financed with Opportunity Fund equity and a construction loan from Sandy Spring Bank. L.F. Jennings is the general contractor.
The 2020 ENR MidAtlantic Best Projects winners include a diverse set of projects from across the region.
Two panels of industry judges reviewed more than 80 projects located throughout the region, including Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
The judges were divided into two groups and assigned a group of categories. Projects were evaluated on the ability of the project team to overcome challenges, contribution to the industry and community, safety and construction and design quality. Due to the large number of entries, we can only honor a fraction of the projects that are submitted each year, so if your project didn’t win this year, please be sure to submit next year. Judges could select any combination of Best Project-level category winners and Award of Merit honorees.
This year’s 2020 ENR MidAtlantic Best Projects winners are:
Best Project Level Winners:
Sports/Entertainment
The St James: Sports, Wellness And Entertainment Complex
The new YMCA opened its doors inside the SunTrust building. It replaces the old location at the James Center, which ended operations on June 29.
Compared to the previous site, the new location will be less than half the size of that, at 12,000 square feet. Even if it sounds small, it still packs a mean punch.
Douglas Development filed an application with the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) that seeks a special exception to bring large-format retail to the nearly two-acre site along New York Avenue between 16th Street and the private Walt Lincoln Way NE. BZA approval would enable the developer to construct a 1-2 story commercial building on the site anchored by Target.
Carr Properties has announced that their second WaveOffice location is now open and available for lease at 1615 L St. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Located on the 6th floor, this WaveOffice location features five private office suites that can accommodate up to 24 people per suite. Additionally, WaveOffice includes communal areas, crafted coffee and sparkling water, a full kitchen, two conference rooms, coffee nook, huddle rooms, multiple touchdown spots and a wellness room. Customers of WaveOffice not only have access to the in-suite amenities but also to the building amenities. Carr’s 1615 L currently includes a new state-of-the-art two-story fitness center and a shared conference center; future amenities will include a lobby café/wine bar, a rooftop deck and bar, and numerous fully furnished areas in the building for collaborative work outside of the office. A grand opening event has been planned for June 19th, 2018.
For the past 20 years, Carpenter’s Shelter has been operating out of a renovated Department of Motor Vehicles building on North Henry Street.
While the building has served the organization very well, said Carpenter’s Shelter Executive Director Shannon Steene, the building has been under very heavy use and is in need of an overhaul. In addition, the City of Alexandria is in dire need of more affordable housing for residents.
That combination of factors means that on June 9, the Carpenter’s Shelter organization will be moving into part of the former Macy’s store at Landmark Mall while a new, 7-story building with underground parking, affordable housing and a new shelter is built on North Henry Street.
As it prepares to deliver the Line DC hotel in Adams Morgan, Foxhall Partners is working on a mixed-use apartment building across the street. Foxhall presented plans to ANC 1C Wednesday detailing an 80-unit mixed-use development it is building at 1773-1777 Columbia Road NW. “We’re big believers in Adams Morgan,” Foxhall managing partner Matt Wexler said. “We love the neighborhood and we anticipate the hotel being a catalyst for further improvement and diversification in the neighborhood. Being directly across the street from that will be a major amenity to our future apartment residents.” The six-story building will include at least 9,500 SF of retail, Urban Turf reports. The project would replace a retail strip that included Payless Shoes, T-Mobile and Old City Cafe. Foxhall began assembling the properties in 2014 with its partner, Beztak Properties. The developer came to an agreement with the ANC in 2015 to preserve the one-story commercial façades. It has since demolished the rest of the buildings and is finishing up site work. The developer plans to deliver the project in Q3 2018. Across the street, at 1780 Columbia Road NW, Foxhall and Sydell Group redeveloped an old church into the 220-room Line DC hotel, which it is preparing to deliver later this spring. Wexler said the firm saw a lack of rental apartments being built in the popular neighborhood and decided it would be a good complement to the hotel, which will also include two restaurants from popular chefs and a coffee shop.
Two emerging corridors, H Street NE and Route 1 in Prince George’s County, will welcome their first Whole Foods this spring. Even before the popular grocer opens, both neighborhoods are already benefiting from “the Whole Foods effect.” Bisnow: Jon Banister Whole Foods’ ground-floor space at The Apollo on H Street In addition to the buzz Whole Foods creates around a neighborhood, studies have shown properties near the grocer grow more rapidly in value than average homes. The DC-area neighborhoods welcoming a Whole Foods this spring are already experiencing increased housing demand and rate premiums, according to landlords, brokers and residents.
Huge outdoors outfitter Cabela’s Inc. (NYSE: CAB) has landed in the D.C. region, with an 80,000-square-foot store set to open in Gainesville March 9.
It’s the first local outpost for Cabela’s, a Nebraska-based outdoors retailer that has been growing its presence on the East Coast in recent years.
The store, located at 5291 Wellington Branch Drive at the Virginia Gateway shopping center, wasn’t always a sure thing, however. Back in 2015, Cabela’s removed Gainesville from its list of 2016 store openings, only to shift gears and redouble its commitment to the site two months later.
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: PEI) expects the $25 million renovation of its Mall at Prince Georges to bring the Hyattsville shopping center up to nearly Springfield Town Center levels of sales.
PREIT CEO Joe Coradino — who also just became chairman of the board — told investors on an earnings call Friday that the company believes Mall at Prince Georges could become “our next $500 per square foot asset” in terms of annual sales.
That would put it only a little bit behind Springfield Town Center, which was pulling in $529 per square foot at the end of January, according to a PREIT spokeswoman. PREIT bought the still under-renovation Northern Virginia center from Vornado in 2014 for $465 million.
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