New Capper Seniors Building

New Capper Seniors Building

As part of the Hope VI grant for the Capper/Carrollsburg area, two new apartment complexes have been built: Capper #1, the $17.3 million 162-unit building at 900 5th Street, was started in March 2005 and completed in December 2006; construction on Capper #2, a 139-unit companion at 400 M Street to the existing Carroll Apartments building, began in December 2005, with move-ins starting in November 2007--zoning changes have been approved to also allow non-senior workforce-level-income renters (up to 60 percent of area median income) to also apply for residency at Capper Building #2. Demolition of the Capper Seniors complex at 7th and M began in November 2007.

Links:
Developers: Forest City Enterprises / Mid-City Urban LLC | Architect: Torti Gallas
DC Housing Authority (agency to contact about Capper housing)
General Information on Housing at Capper Seniors #1 (April 2006)
Feb. 2004 Zoning Approval for Capper PUD
News Items & Additional Links

Capper Seniors #1 Capper Building #2 Old Capper Seniors Capper Seniors News Items

Two views of the Capper Seniors buildings. (Top) March 2006, with construction underway at Capper Seniors #1 (left), and old Capper Seniors (right) still standing. Capper #1 was completed in late 2006. (Bottom) The same view, two years later in March 2008 , with the old building demolished, and Capper Building #2, completed in late 2007, at lower right. You can also see the changes from all the other demolitions of Capper buildings across the bottom of the photos.

Watching the changes at 5th and K streets, SE, from June 2003 through December 2006. The slideshow begins with the last standing Capper Apartment building, long since boarded up, then tracks its demolition, the clearing of the lot, and the rise of Capper Seniors #1. (play again)

For years, the boarded up Capper Apartment building, built in 1958 and abandoned in the mid-1990s, was the focal point at the bottom of the 6th Street SE exit from the Southeast Freeway. (09/03)

The same location, more than three years later, a few months after Capper Seniors #1 opened. (05/07)

Another 2003 view of the 5th and Virginia site, looking west down Virginia, before the demolition of the Capper apartment building. (10/03)

The same location, three years later and completed. (12/06)

The northeast corner of 5th and K, seven months after the demolition of the Capper apartment building. (07/04)

Same spot, 3 1/2 years later, a few months after the building opened to tenants. (03/07)

Looking west across the playing field at the Marine Bachelor Enlisted Quarters to see the construction progressing on Capper #1; this view is the same as in the elevation above at left. (10/05)

A little over a year later, as Capper #1 is completed. (12/06)

Four views of the last standing Capper Apartment building, from almost exactly the same vantage point (5th Street, just north of the intersection of 5th and K). These old structures were the first public housing built in DC with elevators. Top left: boarded up and awaiting demolition (June 2003); top right: demolition almost complete (January 2004); bottom left: All gone (February 2004); bottom right: a few weeks after the building opened (January 2007 ).

Four more views of the last Capper Apartment building as it came down, from almost exactly the same vantage point (Virginia Avenue, west of 5th Street), in September 2000, January 2004, February 2004, and December 2006.

Capper Seniors #1 cuts a nice figure even from a few blocks away (seen here from the Courtyard by Marriott at 2nd and L). The homes across the street from Capper Seniors #1 are private residences, and will remain in place while the Capper/Carrollsburg revitalization happens around them. (01/11/07)

Two pre-construction renderings of new Capper Senior Building #1, at 5th and Virginia; they came pretty close to the real thing!