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Developers: DC Housing Authority, Forest City Enterprises, Mid-City Urban LLC, WC Smith
$34.6 Million Hope VI Grant Awarded (2001) | HUD Factsheet
Capper/Carrollsburg Redevelopment
The 23-acre Capper/Carrollsburg public housing project, being redeveloped as a mixed-income community
The 700 public housing units will be replaced one-for-one, along with 1,000-plus market-rate units
Also will include 700,000 sq ft of office space
Construction begun in 2004, still on-going
Developers: DC Housing Authority, Forest City Enterprises, Mid-City Urban LLC, WC Smith
$34.6 Million Hope VI Grant Awarded (2001) | HUD Factsheet
Individual Capper Projects:
Completed/Underway: Capitol Quarter | 400 M | Capper Seniors #1 | Bixby (2016) | Community Center (2016)
Planned: Square 769N | Other Apartment Buildings | 250 M Street | 600 M Street
Completed/Underway: Capitol Quarter | 400 M | Capper Seniors #1 | Bixby (2016) | Community Center (2016)
Planned: Square 769N | Other Apartment Buildings | 250 M Street | 600 M Street
- 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 2018 baseball season.
- Food Options, Now and Coming SoonThere's now plenty of food options in the neighborhood. Click to see what's here, and what's coming.
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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. - Canal ParkThree-block park on the site of the old Washington Canal. Construction begun in spring 2011, opened Nov. 16, 2012.
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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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- Washington Navy YardHeadquarters of the Naval District Washington, established in 1799.
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- Yards Park5.5-acre park on the banks of the Anacostia. First phase completed September 2010.
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- Van Ness Elementary SchoolDC Public School, closed in 2006, but reopening in stages beginning in 2015.
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- Agora/Whole Foods336-unit apartment building at 800 New Jersey Ave., SE. Construction begun June 2014, move-ins underway early 2018. Whole Foods expected to open in late 2018.
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- New Douglass BridgeConstruction underway in early 2018 on the replacement for the current South Capitol Street Bridge. Completion expected in 2021.
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- 1221 Van290-unit residential building with 26,000 sf retail. Underway late 2015, completed early 2018.
- NAB HQ/AvidianNew headquarters for National Association of Broadcasters, along with a 163-unit condo building. Construction underway early 2017.
- Yards/Parcel O Residential ProjectsThe Bower, a 138-unit condo building by PN Hoffman, and The Guild, a 190-unit rental building by Forest City on the southeast corner of 4th and Tingey. Underway fall 2016, delivery 2018.
- New DC Water HQA wrap-around six-story addition to the existing O Street Pumping Station. Construction underway in 2016, with completion in 2018.
- The Harlow/Square 769N AptsMixed-income rental building with 176 units, including 36 public housing units. Underway early 2017, delivery 2019.
- West Half Residential420-unit project with 65,000 sf retail. Construction underway spring 2017.
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- Novel South Capitol/2 I St.530ish-unit apartment building in two phases, on old McDonald's site. Construction underway early 2017, completed summer 2019.
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- 1250 Half/Envy310 rental units at 1250, 123 condos at Envy, 60,000 square feet of retail. Underway spring 2017.
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- Parc Riverside Phase II314ish-unit residential building at 1010 Half St., SE, by Toll Bros. Construction underway summer 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, substantially complete summer 2018. Circa and an unnamed sibling restaurant announced tenants.
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- The Garrett375-unit rental building at 2nd and I with 13,000 sq ft retail. Construction underway late fall 2017.
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- Yards/The Estate Apts. and Thompson Hotel270-unit rental building and 227-room Thompson Hotel, with 20,000 sq ft retail total. Construction underway fall 2017.
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- Meridian on First275-unit residential building, by Paradigm. Construction underway early 2018.
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- The Maren/71 Potomac264-unit residential building with 12,500 sq ft retail, underway spring 2018. Phase 2 of RiverFront on the Anacostia development.
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- DC Crossing/Square 696Block bought in 2016 by Tishman Speyer, with plans for 800 apartment units and 44,000 square feet of retail in two phases. Digging underway April 2018.
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- One Hill South Phase 2300ish-unit unnamed sibling building at South Capitol and I. Work underway summer 2018.
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- New DDOT HQ/250 MNew headquarters for the District Department of Transportation. Underway early 2019.
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- 37 L Street Condos11-story, 74-unit condo building west of Half St. Underway early 2019.
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- CSX East Residential/Hotel225ish-unit AC Marriott and two residential buildings planned. Digging underway late summer 2019.
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- 1000 South Capitol Residential224-unit apartment building by Lerner. Underway fall 2019.
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- Capper Seniors 2.0Reconstruction of the 160-unit building for low-income seniors that was destroyed by fire in 2018.
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- Chemonics HQNew 285,000-sq-ft office building with 14,000 sq ft of retail. Expected delivery 2021.
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Status, as of March 2014:
At Capitol Quarter, both phases of the project are now complete, bringing to the neighborhood approximately 138 market-rate townhouses, 76 workforce-rate units, 13 Section 8 ownership units and 86 subsidized rental units. The final units were completed in fall 2012.
In total, the entire Capper redevelopment project is projected to have more than 1,500 residential units, including 707 public housing rental units (the same number it had before the redevelopment). Approximately 300 of these are in the now-completed Capper Seniors #1 building and at 400 M Street, with 86 more in Capitol Quarter.
Another 39 units will become available as part of the 195-unit Bixby apartment building at 7th and L SE that will be finished in 2016, and perhaps in 2016 construction will begin on the 171-unit building at 2nd and L on Square 769N. The rest will be in mixed-income apartment buildings (and perhaps a condo building) planned along Canal Park.
Office buildings totaling more than 700,000 square feet will also eventually be built, at 250 M Street and on the site of the old Capper Seniors building at 7th and M; this building was demolished in 2007 and replaced with a temporary surface parking lot. There will be ground-floor retail in the office and apartment buildings.
A new community center at Fifth and K is expected to open in 2016.
This stitched-together overhead view, taken in March 2006, shows the entire Capper/Carrollsburg site, from the Southeast Freeway at left to the block south of L Street on the right. All of the public housing buildings had been vacant for at least a year at the time of this photo, but all were finally demolished during 2006. The Capper buildings between 4th and 5th Street were demolished in late 2004. You can also see the under-construction Capper Seniors #1 at rear left. The Canal Park will replace the school bus lots in the foreground. (03/06)
The same view, four years later. All original Capper buildings are now demolished, and completed Capper Seniors #1 and 400 M are visible, along with most of the first phase of the Capitol Quarter townhouse development. (3/5/10)
On June 26, 2007, the DC Housing Authority held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the redevelopment of Capper/Carrollsburg, with a large group of people wielding shovels on K Street just west of 4th Street. From left: Brian Allan Jackson of EYA; Franklin Smith, chairman of the DCHA Board of Commissioners; former Capper/Carrollsburg resident Kivette Abraham and her daughter; Ward 6 council member Tommy Wells; Michael Kelly, DCHA Executive Director; Leslie Steen, the District's Housing Chief; Leila Edmunds, director of the DC Department of Housing and Community Development; and Anthony Waddell, Director of Public Finance at the DC Housing Finance Agency. (6/26/07)
DCHA commission chair Franklin Smith speaks to the assembled crowd; at far right is a graphic showing how the affordable housing units are integrated into the townhouses so that from the outside all the differing income-level units look the same. (6/26/07)
DCHA executive director Michael Kelly gave an energetic talk highlighting how Capper's redevelopment includes a one-to-one replacement of every unit of public housing that was demolished. (6/26/07)
On a typical hazy and humid Washington summer day, Ward 6 council member Tommy Wells wryly made reference to the "hottest housing market in the country" while the audience fanned themselves and hoped to feel some of the air-conditioning inside the tent. (6/26/07)
The tent erected in the EYA parking lot for the groundbreaking festivities. (6/26/07)
While six people with shovels can move some dirt, it's probably a good thing that the heavy machinery is on standby. (6/26/07)
Looking south into Capper/Carrollsburg down 3rd Street from under the Southeast Freeway overpass, the only view that many Capitol Hill workers and residents have ever had of the Cappers and Near Southeast. (05/03)
The same location, in September 2012, with the new townhouses constructed at left and all other Capper buildings long since demolished. (9/9/12)
While looking forward to the changes that are coming to the Cappers, it should not be forgotten that this neighborhood had been home to many people for many years, and those people had to uproot themselves. Views of the southwest corner of 4th and K in May, 2003.... (05/03)
... and again in August, 2004 highlight the loss of an resident who took great care with their yard. (08/04)
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July 18, 2018
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November 15, 2016
Renderings for Condo and Public Housing Buildings on Square 767
September 13, 2016
Next Capper Apartment Building Getting Closer to Starting
August 12, 2016
A Look Inside the New Capper Community Building
June 9, 2016
Update on the Capper Community Center
November 17, 2015
Square 767 Rental Building to Have Public, Affordable Unit Mix
