1700 Columbia Rd, NW looking east
Well it’s all gone now. You can have a look at the rendering for future condos here. You can read an awesome history about the Ontario Theatre from Streets of Washington here. And check out a photo from 1994 here.
1700 Columbia Rd, NW looking west
Renderings courtesy of Envision McMillan
Last week a reader asked about the plans for the McMillan Sand Filtration Site. Thanks to the folks at Envision McMillan for sending these awesome renderings of the planned McMillan Development. I’m told if all goes well “We are hoping to get shovels in the ground by summer 2014 and deliver the first buildings in 2016.”
They write on their website:
“Earlier this month, VMP submitted revised plans for McMillan that address the remaining concerns raised by the Historic Preservation Review Board at the June hearing. The Historic Preservation Officer has posted their report on the new designs and it’s pretty fabulous news.
Key highlights include the following direct quotes:
“(T)he latest version of the master plan represents a significant improvement over previous versions and now retains the significant above-grade topographical, architectural and engineering features that were identified by the Board as the most important.”
“The revised master plan would retain significant character-defining features of the landmark sufficient to convey its historic character.”
The report recommends, specifically, that the Board “find the concept designs to represent an architecturally coordinated and cohesive approach that specifically relates to the character of the McMillan site.”
If you would like to come support the project at the hearing, please let me know– email me at mcmsalon(at)gmail.com. We’d love to see you at HPRB, but if you miss that, please be sure to join us at the Open House on November 16th.”
More renderings after the jump. (more…)
14th and Wallach Pl, NW
Thanks to all who sent links to Urban Turf:
“On Thursday, Madison Investments and PGN Architects got the go-ahead from the Historic Preservation Review Board on their plans for a 60-unit residential project at the northeast corner of 14th Street and Wallach Place NW.”
You can see a couple of awesome renderings here.
Couple more photos of how it looks today after the jump. (more…)
This section of the 900 block of M St, NW (near the convention center) was a vacant lot not that long ago. It’s turning out pretty nice:
But it’ll cost ya. We will def. revisit and hopefully get a virtual tour when they are completed.
Photo by PoPville flickr user hellomarkers!
McMillan Reservoir – mixed use retail?
“I just saw some minutes from a meeting today that included some discussion on the plans for the McMillan reservoir in Bloomingdale and it says “mixed use retail and residential buildings.”
I’m wondering what “mixed use retail” even means. Does that mean a grocery store? Or, maybe it’s just a typo…”
You can see all forum topics and add your own here.
14th and Maryland Ave, NE
I was excited to see a rendering posted for the new condos coming to 14th and Maryland Ave, NE
Rendering via 1350Maryland.com
Their website says it will be delivering in December 2014 “From the $300’s to the $500’s 1 & 2 Bedrooms”.
This is the corner that used to be home to an old boarded up church.
Here’s what it looked like in 2011:
9th and New York Avenue, NW
Yesterday I was able to take an early look and hard hat tour of The Apartments at CityCenter. They are expensive but they are awesome. In the photo above (on 9th street looking southwest) there are 6 total buildings – to the left are the condos, to the right are the offices and in the center are the apartments (458 units in both buildings.) If all goes according to plan folks should be able to move in starting in early December. In November the new sections of 10th Street and I Street will be reopened to the public.
We are still waiting to learn about most retail and restaurants (“it’s going to be a shopping destination and you can live on top of it”) who have leased space – Tumi was announced as the first retailer today. Tumi will be located at 1051 H Street, NW. I also learned that there are plans for a small grocery store/food market in one of the spaces. More info on retail and restaurants as it gets released. In the meantime check out how the space is starting to turn out:
future electronic boards showing artwork:
future retail and restaurants fronting the entire internal plaza and street sides
More photos including a look at a 2 bed/2 bath corner unit after the jump. (more…)
13th and Girard St, NW
Lots of progress at 2725 13th Street, NW. We last checked in back in February and you could see what it looked like then here.
The Denson website says their will be four 2 bedroom condos. You can see the floor plans here and more renderings here.
Here’s a rendering from their website:
“Dear PoPville,
It is a sad day for us residents of the 1400 block of Belmont Street next to Meridian Hill Park. I remember you spotlighting this rowhouse before so I thought I would share. I spoke with the contractor today. It is being torn down to make way for condos that will fill in the empty lot next door and where the rowhouse will have once stood. It boggles my mind that the city requires preserving facades like the one at Louis 14 yet this rowhouse can be torn down simply because it is not in a historic district. The views over the city in the new condos will be outstanding though. Any word on who the developer is and what the plans are?”
10th and H Street, NE
I was surprised to see the building at 10th and H Street, NE torn down. When Ben’s applied for a liquor license in September it looked like this:
Here’s how it looked in February of this year:
