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L.F. Jennings projects were honored at awards galas hosted by ABC of Metro Washington and NAIOP DC|MD

The St. James is a unique private sports and wellness facility conceived by two DMV natives, college friends, and sports enthusiasts who saw a demonstrated need for an all-in-one destination for athletes and active families in the region. The St. James is intended, with its multitude of venues and offerings, to be the center of all things sports and wellness in the Metro Washington area. The multilevel, 450,000-square-foot venue features large turf fields, two ice rinks, an Olympic-size swimming pool, hardwood courts, a climbing wall, a health club, batting cages, a spa, a restaurant, a water park and other complementary amenities all designed with a minimalist aesthetic.

This truly unique facility is located on the site of the former Washington Gas & Electric Headquarters in an industrial section of Springfield, VA. Rezoning, special permits, and collaboration between Fairfax County and the development team was necessary to make the project a reality.

The St. James was selected for Excellence in Construction Awards in the Concrete and Commercial over $41 Million categories at the ABC of Metro Washington Award gala held September 12th.

AdMo Heights is a new mixed-use residential development at the heart of the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. The lobby of the new residential facility is designed to ground the new building to its location and to connect the public spaces to the culture of the city and in an authentic way. The result is a unique project that combines cutting edge digital fabrication methods with traditional artisanal techniques to create an interior world with its own pulse and rhythm that pays homage to the vibrant original music of DC.

In the lobby, light is used as a sculptural material to interpret music and shape the experience of architecture. To do this A+A Studio custom fabricated 23 LED backlit panels using the score of Duke Ellington songs visualized similarly to the patterns on player piano rolls and then CNC milled into aluminum composite sheets. These stretch from the floor to the ceiling in the lobby and all the way down the ceiling of the corridor. Light glows through the panels and creates a three-dimensional aura that glistens on the surface of the aluminum leaf producing mysterious luminescent light forms.

AdMo Heights was honored with an Award of Merit for Best Common Area at the NAIOP DC|MD Awards gala held on October 3rd.

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Whole Foods Market’s newest flagship store opened October 30^th in Vienna, VA. This latest collaboration between Whole Foods, MV+A Architects, and L.F. Jennings is the largest Whole Foods Market on the east coast (70,000 SF) and is the retail anchor to a marquee development in Tysons Corner. In addition to the traditional stock and thousands of products from close to 100 local vendors, the Whole Foods Market at The Boro features a food hall, a pub and game room with a variety of self-serve food options, and patio seating.

New Whole Foods Markets continue to serve as lynchpin components to new neighborhood developments throughout the mid-Atlantic. L.F. Jennings has delivered or is currently working on locations in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Richmond’s Sauer Center, and South Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

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L.F. Jennings has started construction on the Odenton Town Center project in Anne Arundel County, MD.

Located in a rapidly developing corridor near Ft. Meade, this new multifamily project will anchor Odenton’s new urban core as part of a long-planned town center development.

Developed by The Halle Companies and designed by JDAVIS, this multifamily development features 270 well-appointed residential units with a mix of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments. The building includes premium amenity spaces including a rooftop terrace and lounge, courtyard with pool, fitness center, game rooms, golf & sports simulator, theater, club lounge, screened poolside cabana, rooftop lounge, business center, pet spa, and more.

The building consists of five stories of wood frame apartments sitting on top of an elevated concrete podium wrapped around a 419-space precast concrete parking garage and a courtyard.

Project is slated to finish first quarter of 2021.

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Construction is underway at Douglas Development’s new project located adjacent to the old Hecht Company warehouse in the booming neighborhood of Ivy City.

L.F. Jennings’ design-build group hired Bignell Watkins Hasser Architects to provide the design of the three-level building, including ground floor and second floor retail and a below grade parking garage. The project is anchored by a new Target store, which will be a hybrid between its traditional big box locations and its new smaller urban express format. The 67,000 SF Target will include a Starbucks and groceries.

The center mimics the industrial aesthetic of the neighborhood, echoing the architectural fabric of the existing buildings while providing a modern addition to the area.

Target is expected to open in the Fall of 2019.

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L.F. Jennings has completed the new offices for The Community Foundation of Greater Richmond. The Community Foundation has been a pillar of Richmond’s non-profit community for 50 years, and with this milestone anniversary, the Foundation undertook a major rebranding effort which included a relocation to Scott’s Addition in downtown Richmond from a suburban office park.

This 16,000 SF space is an adaptive reuse project, designed by Wendel Companies, which transformed an industrial warehouse facility into the new highly curated offices that are evocative of the new branding and corporate philosophy of the Foundation.

The space features a predominantly open plan office, with breakaway areas and conference rooms. The new offices boast unique features like glass garage doors which increase the amount of natural light into the former industrial space and serve as a connection to the public domain, integrating the offices with the community the Foundation serves.

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L.F. Jennings was honored with a SUBBY Award from the American Subcontractors Association of Metro Washington on February 23^rd.

On February 23^rd, L.F. Jennings was recognized as the best General Contractor for Small Business at the ASAMW’s 55^th annual awards gala held on at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. This award goes to the “General Contractor that best exhibits an understanding of the unique concerns of its small business subcontractors – particularly in the area of payment and exhibits a commitment to more efficient projects and fairness in construction.”

Since its earliest days, L.F. Jennings Inc. has had a deep connection to clients, trade partners and employees. We believe our history as a specialty contractor makes us a better builder. We apply the same principles of continuity and commitment to our relationships with subcontractors that we do with clients and employees, understanding and respecting our subcontractor’s priorities such as site preparedness and on time payments.

The recognition of our efforts to deal fairly, efficiently, and promptly with our subcontractors is an honor we prize. Thank you to the ASAMW for this distinction.

The ASAMW is the founding Chapter of the American Subcontractor Association, a non-profit organization “dedicated to improving the business for all segments of the construction industry through advocacy, leadership, education and networking”.

L.F. Jennings was honored with two NAIOP DC|MD awards at the Association’s annual Awards of Excellence Gala on Wednesday October 3^rd. L.F. Jennings received an Award of Excellence for Best Master Plan/Mixed Use Project  for Riverdale Park Station, and an Award of Merit for Best Multifamily Project in Washington, DC for Reed Row.

Riverdale Park Station is the transformation of a 38-acre site that once was a WWII workforce housing tract into a dynamic, mixed-use project. Organized around stretches of green space, open plazas, and significant pedestrian and bike activities, Riverdale Park Station creates a balanced mixed-use town center for its residential, retail, office and hotel buildings.

Phase I of this development consists of a 150,000 SF Whole Foods Market anchored retail development, site amenities, and both surface and structured parking.  Phase One also included extensive site work for parking and public amenities like splash park, benches, and art installations.

Riverdale Park Station was given an Award of Excellence for Best Master Plan/Mixed Use Project. Congratulations to Calvin Cafritz Enterprises and MV+A Architects.

Reed Row is an urban infill building located in Washington, DC’s Reed-Cooke neighborhood and features 132 loft style residential units, concierge lobby, fitness center, common area, communal workspace, rooftop deck, private courtyard, and 48 below grade parking spaces. The luxury apartment building offers a range of studio, one, and two-bedroom, and English basement units, as well as two-story “penthouse” units with private rooftop decks. This project successfully fulfilled its goals of creatively maximizing use and build a sustainable development on a challenging urban with site-height limitations, successfully navigating and obtaining input/approvals from several neighborhood groups during the design and construction process, addressed site adjacency/access limitations created by neighboring electrical substation and construction to the Marie Reed Education Campus which partially wrapped around the development, and successfully re-used an existing below-grade structure.

Reed Row was awarded a Merit Award for Best Multifamily Project, Washington, DC. Congratulations to Kettler and R2L Architects.

L.F. Jennings would also like to thank all our subcontractor partners on helping us deliver award winning projects for our Clients.

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L.F. Jennings is the proud recipient of five Associated Builders and Contractors of Metro Washington Excellence in Construction Awards for Poet’s Walk of Leesburg, 540 Redlands Building Repositioning, Whole Foods Market Riverdale, and awards for Retail development and Masonry at Riverdale Park Station.

Poet’s Walk of Leesburg is a Spring Hill Senior Community member that specializes in a personalized approach to memory care assisted living. The single story, 38,000 SF building accommodates 68 residents. The facility is designed and constructed to give occupants a high-end experience. Dining facilities, a bistro, community areas, an ice cream parlor, a salon, and two enclosed courtyards all work to sustaining the community resort atmosphere, while discrete nurse call stations and building security provide support and safety for the residents.

Poet’s Walk of Leesburg was awarded an Excellence in Construction Award in the Institutional (Under $10 Million) category. Congratulations to Silver Companies and LRS Architects.

540 Redlands is a building repositioning that included upgrades to the lobby, glass storefront, lighting, elevator cabs, conference center and the introduction of a new fitness center and interactive lounge with gas fire place.

Most dramatic change to the building was the reorientation of the entrance. L.F. Jennings sealed the existing entrances to the building and cut a new central vestibule in the existing feature curtain wall. This new entrance provided the building with a more prominent presence within the corporate development improving the sense of place of the central plaza and circulation to office building.

540 Redlands was awarded and Excellence in Construction Award in the Commercial/Residential Renovation ($2-$4 Million) category. Congratulations to DCS Design and Charlie Smiroldo formerly of First Potomac.

Riverdale Park Station is the transformation of a 38-acre site that once was a WWII workforce housing tract into a dynamic, mixed-use project. Organized around stretches of green space, open plazas, and significant pedestrian and bike activities, Riverdale Park Station creates a balanced mixed-use town center for its residential, retail, office and hotel buildings.

Phase I of this development consists of a150,000 SF Whole Foods Market anchored retail development, site amenities, and both surface and structured parking.  Phase One also included extensive site work for parking and public amenities like splash park, benches, and art installations.

Riverdale Park Station was awarded Excellence in Construction Awards in the Retail ($5Million & Over) and Masonry categories. Congratulations to Cafritz Enterprises and MV+A Architects, and L.F. Jennings Masonry.

Whole Foods Market Riverdale is the anchor tenant of Phase One of the Riverdale Park Station mixed use development. The industrial style 36,000 SF store interior is a destination grocery store featuring coffee bar, New York and Chicago style pizzeria, full deli, and sushi bar.

The Whole Foods is Prince George’s County’s first and the catalyst to that development’s success.

Whole Foods Riverdale was awarded an Excellence in Construction Award in the Retail/Interiors Only category. Congratulations to Whole Foods Market and MV+A Architects.

L.F. Jennings would also like to thank all our subcontractor partners on helping us deliver award winning projects for our Clients.