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Near Southeast DC Past News Items: Monument Valley/Half St.
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- Full Neighborhood Development MapThere's a lot more than just the projects listed here. See the complete map of completed, underway, and proposed projects all across the neighborhood.
- What's New This YearA quick look at what's arrived or been announced since the end of the 2015 baseball season.
- Food Options, Now and Coming SoonThere's finally starting to be some new food options in the neighborhood. Click to see what's here, and what's coming.
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- Canal ParkThree-block park on the site of the old Washington Canal. Construction begun in spring 2011, opened Nov. 16, 2012. Park Tavern restaurant opened April 8, 2013.
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- Nationals Park21-acre site, 41,000-seat ballpark, construction begun May 2006, Opening Day March 30, 2008.
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- Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg Mixed-Income RedevelopmentHope VI-funded redevelopment of old public housing complex. 1,700 rental & ownership units, including 700 public housing units.
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- Washington Navy YardHeadquarters of the Naval District Washington, established in 1799.
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- Capitol Quarter121 market-rate and 91 workforce-rate townhomes sold in phases; construction started June 2008, completed fall 2012. Project also includes 111 subsidized rental units and Section 8 ownership units.
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- The Yards44-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the old Southeast Federal Center. Expected to be completed in phases over 20 years.
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- The Yards44-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the old Southeast Federal Center. Expected to be completed in phases over 20 years.
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- Yards Park5.5-acre park on the banks of the Anacostia. First phase completed September 2010.
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- The Arris/Yards325ish-unit residential building on SW corner of 4th and Tingey. Construction begun late 2013, completed March 2016.
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- The BixbyNew mixed-income apartment building once known as the Lofts at Capitol Quarter on the northern portion of the old Capper Seniors lot along L Street. Construction begun spring 2014, delivery 2016.
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- Community CenterA new building replacing the old center, with day care, a rec center, gym, computer lab, and more. Starting spring 2014, completed summer 2016.
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- Van Ness Elementary SchoolDC Public School, closed in 2006, but reopening in stages beginning in 2015.
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- Park Chelsea
880 New Jersey430-unit apartment building called Park Chelsea, 1st phase of 1 million-sq-ft residential project by William C. Smith. Started fall 2012, first move-ins began April 2016.![-]()
- Agora336-unit apartment building at 800 New Jersey Ave., SE, second phase of 1 million-sq-ft residential project by WC Smith. Whole Foods signed for 35,000 sq ft ground-floor retail. Construction begun June 2014, delivery 2017.
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- 909 Half Street380-unit residential building by Ruben Cos & Related Companies. Underway Feb. 2015.
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- Insignia on M324-unit residential building at 1111 New Jersey Ave., SE, by Donohoe. Construction underway Sept. 2014, delivery 2017.
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- 99 M StreetA 224,000-square-foot office building by Skanska for the corner of 1st and M. Underway fall 2015, delivery 2017. Circa and Open Road expected tenants
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- F1rst/Residence Inn325 residential units, 170-unit hotel, and 40,000 square feet of retail along 1st Street, by Grosvenor and McCaffery. Construction underway March 2015, delivery 2017.
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- Hampton Inn & SuitesA 168-room hotel on the corner of 1st and N, construction started early 2014, opened December 2015.
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- Dock 79/RiverFront on the Anacostia
(Florida Rock)5.8-acre site, 1.1 million sq ft project, 1st phase 350-unit residential building called Dock 79 underway in late 2014, delivery expected fall 2016.![-]()
- New South Capitol Street BridgePlanning is underway to replace the current Frederick Douglass Bridge.
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- Anacostia RiverwalkA bridge between Teague and Yards Parks is part of the planned 20-mile Anacostia Riverwalk multi-use trail along the east and west banks of the Anacostia River.
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- Virginia Ave. Tunnel ExpansionConstruction underway in 2015 to expand the 106-year-old tunnel to allow for a second track and double-height cars. Expected completion 2018.
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- Rail and Bus Times
Get real time data for the Navy Yard subway, Circulator, Bikeshare, and bus lines, plus additional transit information. - Rail and Bus Times
Get real time data for the Navy Yard subway, Circulator, Bikeshare, and bus lines, plus additional transit information. - Homewood Suites195-room Homewood Suites Hotel at 50 M Street, construction underway March 2015, delivery 2016.
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- ORE 82227-unit apartment building, by Greystar and RCP Partners at 82 I St. SE. Construction underway February 2015.
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- The Brig Beer GardenLong-stalled beer garden at 8th and L under construction, finally opened June 17, 2016.
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- 1244 South Capitol290-unit residential building with 26,000 sf retail. Underway late 2015, delivery late 2017.
- NAB HQ/10 VanNew headquarters for National Association of Broadcasters, along with 163-unit condo building. Construction expected summer 2016, delivery 2018.
- Yards/Parcel O ResidentialA 138-unit condo building by PN Hoffman and a 190-unit rental building by Forest City on the southeast corner of 4th and Tingey. Expected to start in 2016.
- New DC Water HQA wrap-around six-story addition to the existing O Street Pumping Station. Construction expected to start in 2016, with completion in late 2017.
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I gave you new stadium, Monument Half Street, and 20 M photos yesterday; today I've posted new Community Center and DOT HQ shots, including some pretty neat ones of the new New Jersey Ave. and Tingey Street intersection (amazing what bright sunlight can do for a bunch of buildings and fresh asphalt!). I also added to the 20 M page new shots of the festive scrolling information sign they've installed over the main entrance, as well as the "Coming Soon - Wachovia" sign that I missed by minutes when taking my pictures on Sunday. You can also see on one page all the photos from yesterday and today that I've posted.
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20 M, Community Center, US Dept. of Transportation HQ, Monument Valley/Half St., Retail, staddis, Nationals Park
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Still working my way through the pile of pictures I took today.... New shots posted of the ongoing work at the Monument Half Street site, and also some "substantially complete" shots of 20 M Street--in a couple photos you can see men working on the far left window on M Street, and a reader gave me a heads up that not more than a few minutes after I came through, they posted a sign saying "Wachovia Coming Soon." So, if that's indeed the case, that would be the first 20 M tenant we've heard of.
Another building has bitten the dust on the Monument Half Street site, and I think everyone can agree it will not be lamented on its death--it's the brown cinderblock building just north of the N Street intersection, and it's now been immortalized on my Demolished Buildings page. And, thanks to Camera 2 of the Clark/Hunt/Smoot Stadium Construction Cam, we can see that it breathed its last between 11:11 and 11:22 this morning, March 15. (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one using that camera to not watch the stadium construction!) They appear to be working around the temporary WMATA lot that they built just north of the cinder-shed; at the same time, work appears to be nearly complete on the next WMATA temporary lot, over at 1236 South Capitol (formerly home to the neon yellow bungalow, just south of the storage company).There's a zoning hearing on April 23 for permanent approval of the new temporary lot (it was approved on an emergency basis back in November).
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Metro/WMATA, Monument Valley/Half St., staddis
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On Wednesday a "shoring and sheeting" building permit application was filed for 1001 First Street, which is on the block known as Square 699N, bounded by 1st, Half, K, and L streets. It was bought in September 2005 by local developer Ron Cohen for $51 million, and was the home to nightclubs Wet, Edge, and Club 55, along with various other small businesses that slowly moved out until the block was left vacant in September 2006. As for the building permit app, shoring and sheeting is how the walls of a big hole in the ground are held up during excavation (I hope that isn't too technical of an explanation), and is another sign that Cohen is getting his ducks in a row to do .... something .... on this lot, as were the public space permits that were granted in December 2006 for the necessary water and sewer shut-off work on the site. I haven't seen evidence of raze permits, but I only started seeing those in Fall 2006 and it's possible that they were applied for earlier. What I did notice during a drive-by today is that all of the trees on the block--including a pretty huge one at 1st and L--have been chopped down (I'm pretty sure within the past week). Will we hear word of Cohen's plans soon?
(I was hoping to give you an equally enticing report on a building permit app filed for 83 M Street, the Normandie Liquors lot at 1st and M, but apparently it's for the placement of a construction trailer, which I'm guessing is for Monument's Half Street project, though I don't know for sure. Ah well.)
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Restaurants/Nightlife, Monument Valley/Half St., Square 699n, staddis, Velocity Condos, Square 701
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(I was out of town last week, and am also currently under the weather, so I'm only slowly catching up.) At some point during the past week, more buildings on the footprint of the Monument Half Street project met the wrecking ball, giving us some new additions to my Near Southeast Demolished Buildings page. There's also getting to be quite a hole already on the north end of the lot, around the Navy Yard Metro entrance at Half and M.
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Monument Valley/Half St., staddis
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It took awhile to get into the city's Real Property Sales Database, but it can now be reported that WMATA sold its land on the east side of Half Street and one parcel on M Street to Monument Realty on Dec. 26 for $15.4 million. This is the land on top of the Navy Yard Metro stop east entrance that's now going to become the first part of Monument's Half Street/Ballpark District mixed-use development; as part of this deal, Monument is handling the renovation/expansion of the subway station, already underway.
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Metro/WMATA, Monument Valley/Half St., staddis
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In addition to the latest stadium photos that I posted on Saturday, there's also a smattering of new photos on the 20 M Street and Capper Seniors #2 pages, and even the Monument Half Street page (showing the hole in the ground starting to be dug as part of the Navy Yard Metro station upgrade). I also tossed in a few updated photos of the 4th and K and 4th and L intersections into the Photo Archive as well.
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The long and winding road of the Florida Rock project took a pretty surprising turn tonight, as the Zoning Commission opted not to vote on the second-stage PUD, instead asking the applicant for to come back with an altered design that addresses the commission's concerns: the need for a greater amount of residential within the project (up from the current 40%, with the understanding that this would cut down the amount of office space), better views of and from the stadium (specifically in terms of the views of the Anacostia River from the grand staircase at 1st Street, and also the views of the stadium from the South Capitol Street Bridge), and a somewhat amorphous desire for a better "expression of place" (something that makes the site and the project more identifiable on the waterfront side).
Commissioners Parsons and Jeffries led the discussion about the concerns; Parsons in particular was extremely concerned that the project--which started long ago, well before there was a stadium to the north--would be looked at as a huge missed opportunity if it were approved in its current form. He mentioned how originally there was great emphasis put on the need to keep the axis of Half Street running through the project (see the project map to orient yourself and understand the discussion), but now that Half Street doesn't exist anymore thanks to the ballpark, perhaps the site could be pushed in at the center to allow more space at its ends and to respond to the stadium. Commissioner Jeffries expressed that this should be much more of a "civic" location (i.e., more for residents and less for office workers), and that there needs to be a better design plan, and that the commission has a responsibility to "get this right." When Commissioner Turnbull said that these requests constitute "major surgery", Jeffries replied that in his view the project needs major surgery, that incremental changes aren't getting the project where it needs to be.
Next steps? Good question--there was talk about how, when an extension was requested back in 2004, there were concerns that if it weren't granted the Florida Rock people would just leave a concrete plant on this valuable land, and the commissioners expressed a bit of worry about whether they'd do that now--and Commissioner Hood, who was skeptical of these requests at such a late date in the process, said that if he were the applicant, he would leave it as a concrete plant at this point. Yeowch. I will keep you apprised, of course.
UPDATE: Monument Realty's Half Street mixed-use project was given final approval on a 5-0 vote, with the exception of one variance request. Commissioners Mitten, Hood, and Parsons all remarked on how much they like the project, and Parsons made mention of how responsive Monument was to the concerns expressed by the commission at the January hearing.
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Tomorrow (Monday) night is a big Zoning Commission meeting, with votes expected on both the Florida Rock second-stage PUD and the Monument Realty/Half Street project (The 250 M Street vote has been put off again.) This is available on live webcast if you're so inclined. If the projects are approved, there's then a public comment period before a final approval vote a few weeks down the road.
Also, the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation has just announced a Tuesday meeting "to consider resolutions regarding development agreements with the JBG Companies and the Government of the District of Columbia related to the implementation of a PILOT agreement for the new US Department of Transportation Headquarters"--no, I can't really tell you what this means. The meeting can be listened to via teleconference (call 877-529-9893 and enter access code 800). See my Calendar of Events for times and locations.
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250 M, US Dept. of Transportation HQ, Florida Rock, Monument Valley/Half St., staddis, zoning
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I've now posted PDFs of some of the Monument Realty submissions to the Zoning Commission for the January 11 public hearing on their Half Street/Ballpark District mixed-use project: you can grab yourself a really large, strong cup of coffee and peruse the opening statement (1 MB), the traffic study (3.7 MB, which I linked to a few days ago) or the architectural drawings (13.7 MB). I've also snagged the best of the renderings and added them to my Monument Half Street page. It's expected that the Zoning Commission will vote on this project at its February 12 public meeting, when zoning approval votes are also expected on the 250 M Street and Florida Rock projects. UPDATE: For those who aren't well-versed in the zoning process, I should emphasize that these are the submittal documents--at the public hearings, zoning commissioners ask questions and request clarifications and sometimes modifications, and so what will be voted on isn't necessarily what's seen here. But it's better than nothing!
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