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YARDS PHASE 2: I was kind of surprised at the
volume of coverage earlier this week about the second-phase plans at
the Yards, which mainly shows the power of sending a press release to every development reporter in town (though not me). If you've been following my posts about "Yards West" since, oh,
early 2014, the plans for well over 1 million square feet of office space on the footprint of
Spooky Park at 1st and M and two residential buildings on the current parking lots on the south side of N Street is
not really anything new. But the press release attached a 2019 start date attached to this next phase, and it also passed along two renderings, including one showing what the release describes as a "six-block spine" beginning at a new plaza at New Jersey and M, extending all the way to the Anacostia River at
Diamond Teague Park, described as "a vibrant pedestrian-friendly street, featuring ground-level retail and dining, extended green spaces and a variety of public gathering areas." In all, "Yards West" will have about 3 million square feet of mixed-use space across 18 acres.
Here are the renderings, showing the planned office building for "Parcel F," on the northeast corner of 1st and N, and the aforementioned "spine," looking south toward the river.
(And maybe that new plaza at New Jersey and M will include the
dreamed-of third entrance to the Navy Yard Metro station, on the south side of M.)
But what if Amazon picks the
Capitol Riverfront/Poplar Point HQ2 proposal, which includes these lots (
seen on this map as locations 9 and 10)? Or is this a hint that it's not expected to be chosen? We Shall See!
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PARADIGM PART 2: WBJ reports late this afternoon that Paradigm has now purchased the rest of the block bounded by New Jersey, 1st, K, and L. This includes the Eagle Academy building and the taxi garage next door, on New Jersey. The company is just getting started with its 275-unit residential building at
1000 1st Street, on the west side of this block (known as Square 740), and apparently is planning a twin for the other part of the block.
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Great Leaps Forward: Movie Theater, Warehouse, 1000 South Capitol
Mar 1, 2018 9:29 AM
Some stories people have been waiting to hear about for a while:
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MOVIE THEATER MOVING FORWARD:
WBJ reports that "D.C. Water, developer Forest City Washington and the District government have settled all outstanding business tied not only to the parcel needed for the long-planned
16-screen, 1,500-seat movie theater, but other sites surrounding it that are similarly planned as part of The Yards."
Forest City should receive the movie theater land in late spring, apparently, with the other residential-planned parcels to come probably over the next five years.
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LERNER BUYS 49 L: The General Services Administration
announced this morning that the sale closed on Feb.22 for the one-story brick warehouse on the southeast corner of Half and L, SE.
Property records show that "Half Street Partners, LLC" paid $31 million for the site. And that LLC happens to have a mailing address of 2000 Tower Oaks Blvd., Eighth Floor, which happens to be the address of
Lerner Enterprises.
No word yet on the plans for the site, which is (sort of) across the street from Lerner's
20 M office building, and also creates a sort-of Lerner-owned triangle with...
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1000 SOUTH CAPITOL MOVING FORWARD: Lerner
officially announced this week its plans to build the
250-unit 13-story residential building at South Capitol and K that has been working its way through the design and zoning process for the past few years. Designed by Shalom Baranes Associates, it will also have 10,000 square feet of retail along with the lineup of amenities befitting a new "luxury" building--fitness center with Pelotons, private dining room with demonstration kitchen, rooftop pool and entertainment center, and pet spa and bicycle repair offerings for residents. It is expected to get underway late in 2018.
UPDATE: And now we have one more piece of neighborhood news from WBJ today, which is that it has
finally been officially announced that the new hotel at 3rd and Tingey in the Yards will be a
Thompson boutique hotel.
(Though it must be noted that the WBJ story doesn't seem to quite realize that the hotel is
already under construction, in a joint digging-and-building project with Forest City's next residential building, on
Parcel L.)
The hotel will have 225 rooms, and the residential building will have about 270 units, and combined the two will have about 24,000 square feet of retail.
First Tidbits of 2018: Chloe Coming Jan. 5, and More
Jan 2, 2018 2:30 PM
Greetings, and somehow we (read: I) have made it to 2018. Here's a few brief tidbits before I head off onto yet another stint on the disabled list (arthroscopic hip surgery, which partially explains why I have not been doing a lot of walking around the neighborhood with camera). I expect to be back at the keyboard in plenty of time for the gala celebration of JDLand's 15th anniversary, on Jan. 19.
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RESTAURANT CHLOE:
Washingtonian gets the scoop, and lots of details, on the Jan. 5 opening of
Chloe, the first solo venture by Chef Haidar Karoum. It's located on the southwest corner of 4th and Tingey, in the ground floor of
Arris, across from Bluejacket. Washingtonian reports that the menu "is a mismash of all the cuisines Karoum has cooked professionally (Spanish, Southeast Asian, modern American), grown up with (Lebanese), and fell in love with while traveling (Mediterranean and beyond)."
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NEW FOOD PANTRY: At the other end of the food spectrum is the news that
St. Vincent de Paul--the church at South Capitol and M that brings you Nats Mass in the summer--has launched a new monthly food pantry. It will be open on the 4th Saturday of every month from 10 am to noon, and donations can be dropped off inside the main doors of the church. It is part of the network of food pantries run in partnership with the
John S. Mulholland Family Foundation, and monetary donations can be made
here. If you are interested in volunteering, contact
St. Vincent de Paul.
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GSA WAREHOUSE: Looks like someone out there has
bid $31 million to buy the GSA warehouse on the southeast corner of Half and L Streets, SE. Will that be the final purchase price? We shall see!
A Final Skeletons-and-Holes-and-Fences Survey for 2017
Dec 11, 2017 11:35 AM
I somewhat unexpectedly found myself wandering around on Sunday, and though the official JDLand camera stayed home and drank hot chocolate, the JDLand cellphone (a Pixel 2, thanks for asking) stepped in to catch some progress pics.Here's a rundown:
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HELLO, AVIDIAN: After being burned multiple times over the years with projects being said to include condos during the design phase only to end up as rentals, it's nice to have confirmation via the purty new fence signage at South Capitol and M that not only that the corner will be home to the new headquarters for the
National Association of Broadcasters, but that the sibling building immediately to the south that was oddly dubbed 10 Van is now known as the
Avidian, and that it will be condominiums, "Selling 2018." The building should have 170ish units and will probably be completed in 2019.
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PEEKING OUT: We have three newcomers to ground level, as the
380-unit apartment building at South Capitol and I is now clearly visible from the street, as is the 190-unit rental sibling to the further-along Bower at
Yards Parcel O on 4th Street. Plus, the 420-unit
West Half building immediately north of Nats Park now has its first batches of rebar out of the ground, if your eyes know what to look for. (And yes, I'm still completely failing at catching the work underway on what's now known as the
Emblem at Barracks Row, the 20-unit condo building at 8th and Virginia. One of these days.)
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ONWARD AND UPWARD: The new
DC Water HQ continues to get its face put on, while the condo building known as the
Bower at 4th and Tingey has completed seven of its 10ish floors, and at 2nd and L the
next Capper mixed-income building is through Floor #4 of its own 10ish floors. {Trying to avoid any arguments about whether penthouses = floors.}