List of new and under construction retail properties,
office buildings, industrial properteis, apartment buildings,
mixed used properties and investment properties in
Washington DC.
Address
Description
Targeted Delivery
Date
1050 K
Street, NW Washington DC,
20001
1050 K
Street will be an 11-story office building with
about 140,000 sq. ft. that will include ground
floor retail and more than 100 underground
parking spaces. A temperature and humidity
controlled penthouse art gallery leads outside
to a haiku-inspired rooftop garden of natural
bamboo and grasses. The building will be Gold
LEED certified.
July
2008
1129 20th
Street,
NW
Washington DC,
200036
1129
20th Street will be expanded with two
additional stories and the rest of the building
will be renovated during construction. Once
completed, the building will be 160,121 sq. ft.
in size and 10 stories tall. Renovation is
scheduled to begin in January of 2007 and
expected to be complete by
2008
December
2008
1999 K
Street, NW Washington DC,
20036
Plans
call for the demolition of the existing 148,364
sq. ft. Mercury building at 1925 K Street and
to build a new 12-story, 252,000 sq. ft. office
building on the site. The building will feature
first floor retail, a fitness center, rooftop
deck and four levels of below-grade parking.
The law firm, Mayer Brown LP, will lease the
entire building. The building was designed by
Helmut John.
April
2009
2121 K
Street, NW Washington DC,
20037
This
development at 2121 K Street involves the
addition of three floors of office space on the
existing building. The additional 52,000 sq.
ft. will be built on top of the existing
135,000 sq. ft. building located at 21st and K
Streets, NW, as well as façade
renovations.
September
2007
Lincoln
Hall
Fort McNair Washington DC,
20024
Lincoln
Hall will be a new three story building to be
located at the National Defense University at
Fort Lesley J. McNair. The 250,900 gross sq.
ft. building will provide the National Defense
University with additional classroom, meeting,
and conference space. Lincoln Hall will be
located on 5th Avenue north of the existing
Marshall Hall, to which it will be connected
via a shared atrium. The new building houses a
600-seat auditorium (6,800 sq. ft.), a
2,000-person capacity meeting space (80,500 sq.
ft. conference center), classrooms, offices,
support areas and a
cafeteria.
December
2007
455
Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington DC,
20001
455
Massachusetts Avenue, NW is a 242,366 class-A
office building located on Massachusetts Avenue
adjacent to the DuMont Condominiums. The
building will offer a twelve-story glass façade
overlooking Massachusetts Avenue and Eye
Street, four levels of below grade parking and
more than 13,640 sq. ft. of street front
retail. The building will occupy a small
triangular parcel that Penzance acquired in
December 2004
January
2008
1199 F
Street, NW Washington DC,
20005
1199 F
Street will be comprised of a new, 12-story
office tower connected by a seven-story,
naturally-lit atrium to three historic
buildings. The office tower is designed to
harmonize with its historic urban surroundings
and will be composed of generous expanses of
floor-to-ceiling glass framed by limestone
pilasters and horizontal bronze spandrels.
Originally built in the nineteenth century, the
historic buildings’ front and rear façades will
be preserved and the interiors will be
renovated. The atrium will serve as the main
entrance to the project as well as a link
between the historic and modern elements of the
complex, displaying the interplay of the varied
rear facades of the historic buildings and the
clean lines of the new office tower. The new
building will sit on top of a five-story,
below-grade parking structure with a ramp
entrance on 12th Street. Demolition of the
existing buildings started in summer
2006
September
2008
100 M
Street, SE Washington DC,
20003
Opus
East is building a 12-story, 240,000 sq. ft.
speculative office building with approximately
15,000 sq. ft. of retail and restaurant space
on the first floor at the corner of First and M
Streets, SE. The four-level underground parking
garage will have approximately 196 spaces. The
building design features windows on all four
sides, with multiple corner offices and a
roof-top deck
November
2008
The
Salvation Army - Solomon G. Brown Corp
Center
2300 Martin L. King Jr. Avenue, SE Washington
DC, 20020
The
Salvation Army's new building, the Solomon G.
Brown Corps Community Center, will have about
41,000 sq. ft. of office and 4,000 sq. ft. of
retail. In November of 2001, The Salvation Army
commissioned a study to determine how best to
serve in the District. The study pointed to the
communities of Ward 8, where at the time the
Army had no local
presence
June
2008
1099 New
York Avenue, NW Washington DC,
20001
This
11-story, 179,000 sq. ft. class-A office
building will be located at the northeast
corner of 11th Street and New York Avenue. The
building will have a full range of amenities
including a fitness center, rooftop terrace,
concierge service and below grade parking.
There will be 7,650 sq. ft. of ground floor
retail in two spaces and a 2,500 sq. ft.
fitness center. The site was the former home to
Hertz Rent-A-Car.
March
2008
Station
Place 700 2nd Street,
NE Washington DC, 20002
Station
Place is a three phased development with 1.6
million sq. ft. of office space. The Securities
and Exchange Commission moved into 100 F Street
in March 2005 and into 600 Second Street in
January 2006. The third phase, 700 2nd Street,
is a 10-story, 515,000 sq. ft. office building
with three levels of below-grade parking. The
building started construction in fall 2006 and
is scheduled to deliver in early 2009. Set on a
5.5-acre site, Station Place, which is directly
connected to Union Station, is an important
part of the planned redevelopment program along
the H Street
corridor.
April
2009
Columbia
Center 1152 15th Street,
NW Washington DC,
20005
Columbia
Center will be a 12-story, 395,000 sq. ft.
class-A office building with three levels of
below grade parking. Although the project is
technically a mid-block development, it is a
free standing building with at least 28-foot
wide alleys along the back and sides of the
building. The full-curtain wall will be
anchored by an elegant street-level base of
glass and stone. The extensive use of glass
will allow light to permeate through all four
sides of the building. The 120,000 sq. ft.
parking garage is constructed four levels
below-grade. Columbia Center also features a
rooftop terrace, third floor terrace and
fully equipped fitness center. Columbia
Center will be connected to the neighboring
building using a tension fabric canopy
walkway.
October
2007
Patriots Plaza
III 355 E Street,
SW
Washington DC, 20024
The
384,000 sq. ft. Patriots Plaza III will be
the final of three office buildings on Square
537. Once completed the $350 million Plaza of
the Patriots will comprise of just under one
million square feet. Patriot Plaza II calls
for approximately 322,000 sq. ft., with an
expected delivery in 2009 and the 300,000 sq.
ft. Patriots Plaza I was completed in
2005
September
20009
1100 1st
Street, NE Washington DC,
20002
Tishman
Speyer acquired almost three acres from J
Street Development at 1st and L Streets, NE
(part of the First Place development) and
plans to build two office buildings, which
will mirror each other. 1100 First Street
& 1150 First Street will total nearly
700,000 sq. ft. of office space. The 12-story
phase one, 1100 First Street, will also offer
15,000 sq. ft. of retail space, a 2,500 sq.
ft. fitness center and 250 parking spaces in
a 12-story office building. The building will
try for Silver LEED
certification.
June
2007
Patriots
Plaza
II 375 E Street,
SW Washington DC
20005
The
322,000 sq. ft. Patriots Plaza II will be the
second of three office buildings on Square
537. Once completed the $350 million Plaza of
the Patriots will comprise of just under one
million square feet. Patriot Plaza III will
contain about 384,000 sq. ft., with an
expected delivery in 2009 and the 300,000 sq.
ft. Patriots Plaza I was completed in
2005.
September
20009
77 K Street, NE Washington DC,
20002
When
the existing building is demolished, 77 K
Street (aka 65 K Street) will be an 11-story,
344,000 sq. ft. class-A office building
located at 1st and K Streets, NE, two blocks
north of Union
Station.
September
2008
505 9th Street,
NW
Washington DC, 20004
505
9th Street will be a ten-story, 325,000 sq.
ft. class-A office building located in the
heart of the Penn Quarter neighborhood
directly behind the International Spy Museum.
The site, located between 9th, 8th and E and
F Streets, NW, is currently under
construction and will deliver in October
2007. The building will include the new
13,000 sq. ft., 225-seat Washington Stage
Guild Theatre (scheduled to open in 2/2008).
The $6 million theatre, being built by
Forrester Construction, will include tiered
seating, stage and infrastructure for live
theatre, a mezzanine for storage and sets,
dressing rooms, green rooms and rehearsal
areas. The upstairs lobby includes a
concession area, ticket booth, and a private
office area with a conference room to support
the theater
company.
October
2007
700 6th
Street,
NW
Washington DC, 20001
700
Sixth Street is a 300,000 sq. ft. classically
designed modern office structure. There will
be a three-story main lobby with marble floor
and glass bridges. The building will feature
a green roof with a terrace, a client-only
fitness facility and a full-service
concierge. The typical floor will be
approximately 24,000 sq. ft. with 30’x 30’
column spacing
March
2009
East Side of
Half Street btw M & N Streets, SE Washington
DC, 20003
The
Half Street development is located just north
of the new Washington National’s baseball
stadium and will total about 775,000 sq. ft.
with a targeted delivery of 2009. This
mixed-use project will include 340
residential units, 50,000 sq. ft. of retail,
a 196-room W Hotel and 275,000 sq. ft. of
office. The eight-acre site is bordered by N
Street to the south, M Street to the north,
and South Capitol and First Streets on the
west and east, respectively. Phase II could
total about 1.2 million sq. ft. with a
targeted delivery of
2011.
March
2009
300 New Jersey Avenue,
NW Washington DC, 20001
The
development program for the 300 New Jersey
Avenue property (aka 51 Louisiana Avenue)
includes the retention of the existing office
building (Acacia Building), the demolition of
the existing above grade parking garage and
the construction of a state-of-the-art,
10-story, 255,000 square foot office building
with six levels of below grade parking
including 458 spaces on the portion of the
site previously occupied by the garage. The
building will be trying for LEED
certification
April
2009
Proplocate Realty LLC /
Robert Gamzeh, Associate Real Estate
Broker
Washington DC, Best place for
Commercial Real Estate Invesment in 2009
In this difficult market, Washington, D.C. should be at the
top of office investors’ buy list, according to Grubb &
Ellis’ Investment Opportunity Monitor, a proprietary market
ranking in which Grubb & Ellis annually measures 60 office,
53 retail, 56 apartment and 55 industrial markets against 13 to
17 criteria important to the performance of real estate
investments. Washington, D.C., is the one market that will
benefit from the credit crisis as the government expands to
implement its economic recovery plan.
