These are all items I had hoped to write about more fully, but at this point I'd better just pass them along.
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FLORIDA ROCK:
MRP Realty is now in control of the land at the Florida Rock site that will become the 350-unit apartment building that is the first phase of
RiverFront on the Anacostia. A $65 million loan is expected to be finalized soon, and the developers say that the project will "commence construction by late summer 2014." (WBJ)
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BEVY OF PERMITS: If you browse the teeny type in the right margin of the JDLand home page, you'll already know that building permits have been approved in the past few weeks for the apartment projects at
1111 New Jersey and
1331 4th Street (aka Parcel N at the Yards, aka Arris). A tenant layout permit has also been approved for CBS Radio's first-floor performance studio at
1015 Half Street. Also, fresh off its
zoning approvals, developers of the
Homewood Suites at 50 M have filed for shoring/sheeting/excavation permits.
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THE YARDS, ONE PIECE AT A TIME: "Rather than purchase all 42 acres up front, Forest City buys each parcel from the General Services Administration as it is ready to build. The latest: The $28.37 million acquisition of 1331 Fourth St. SE, site of the 327-unit
Arris apartment project." Total land costs so far across the Yards? $46 million. (
WBJ)
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SCHOOL BOUNDARIES: The planned reopening of
Van Ness Elementary next year passes another milestone, as its boundaries get included in the
city's revamped map, released earlier this week. The final boundaries cross into Southwest south of M Street, shifting some students over to Van Ness from Amidon-Bowen, "to better align school building capacity with population and with boundary participation rates, and to support racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, where possible." (WaPo)