I took a lot of photos on Sunday, so many that I'm not going to waste time trying to come up with some pithy introduction. What you see below are just a taste of all the new images I posted, so be sure to follow the links for more.
At
the Yards, the
Foundry Lofts (left) are looking close to done, and it's striking to compare it to its
Before shots to see just how well the exterior of the building has been cleaned up. Meanwhile, the
Boilermaker Shops (right) is now defrocked, with work underway to transform it into the 46,000-square-foot retail space that will open about a year from now.
In the
Yards Park, work will start this fall to make the
Lumber Shed into another retail space, and earlier this summer
test panels were hung on one corner of the building (left) to show how currently bare structure will look when it is completely enclosed in glass. And, over on the western edge of the park,
the new bridge that will connect Yards Park to
Diamond Teague Park (and
Nationals Park) is coming along (right), with a number of the signature curved "fence posts" already installed. The bridge is scheduled to open in a few months.
I finally got some not-very-exciting shots of the under-construction pavilion on the south end of
Canal Park (left), along with updating what photos I could of the perimeter (the fencing around 2nd Place in particular puts a cramp in my methodology). This pavilion is where a restaurant is planned, which could be home to the latest Xavier Cervera offering
if a deal is finally reached. The park is expected to open next year. Plus, I captured the
temporary home of the Capitol Hill Day School (right), so that some day many years from now there will be a record of the modular classrooms that stood for nine months or so on the site of the eventual
Capper Community Center at 5th and K.
And change is happening at a ridiculously rapid pace at
Capitol Quarter, so much so that a trip through the
Phase 2 Extended Photo Archive is definitely recommended to see all of the new vistas in comparison to the old
Capper footprint. Less showy but still moving forward is the transformation of
225 Virginia/200 I, including the beginnings of the work on the parking deck at 3rd and I.
Want to plow through all 213 new images?
Have at it.