Development

The rebranding of the apartel continues. Developers Toll Brothers and AECOM Capital are exploring the idea of seeking a modification of consequence to Union Place, a 14-story mixed-use development at 200 K Street NE (map) in order to set…

While courtyards are nothing new for multi-family developments, and have even been employed in pop-back rowhouse-conversion projects, a rowhouse conversion in DC is including a first of sorts for this type of development: a small private…

The owners of a development site by the Benning Road Metro station in Northeast D.C. plan to seek buyers for their property, formerly home to a KFC restaurant.

Infill development in DC historic districts often incorporates existing structures into new multi-family projects. Far less often, existing structures are moved to make way for new multi-family projects. But that is what is happening in…

The idea of church-to-residential conversions in DC often conjures images of high-ceilinged condos with majestic windows. A new conversion on the boards is delivering a different type of offering. OPaL is restoring and retrofitting the…

After months of conversations and negotiations with the Office of Planning, community stakeholders and dissenting neighbors, the development team behind The Bard development in Southwest DC is returning with a proposal even smaller than the…

For years, District leaders and advocates have considered ways to redevelop the D.C. Jail, a dilapidated facility in Hill East that houses hundreds of inmates awaiting trial or transfer to federal prisons around the country. But a feasible…

The opening of The Wharf, Audi Field and other amenities in Southwest D.C. are turning the neighborhood into one of the most sought-after destinations for visitors and residents, a trend developers say is unprecedented in the city's…

When Troy Holley was looking for a new place in the D.C. region, he found himself drowning in listings for luxury apartments. “I was kind of amazed that you couldn’t really find anything that wasn’t ‘luxury’ in the title,” says Holley. Even…

D.C. developers have spent years churning out homogeneous office buildings, maximizing the height under the city's zoning limit and creating all-glass exteriors to bring in light, but the latest projects have begun to differentiate…

UrbanTurf has learned that Brooklyn's Other Half brewery will open a DC outpost at the former Pappas Tomato Factory at 1401 Okie Street NE (map). The Douglas Development-owned property will also be home to a Compass Coffee and a Kick Axe…

This past April, the Zoning Commission approved a planned-unit development (PUD) which would develop six acres of land straddling Howard Road SE between I-295 and South Capitol Street SE (map) with five buildings, delivering roughly 692…

Three years ago, Valor Development gave the Spring Valley and American University Park neighborhoods a glimpse of a proposed development which would replace the shopping center that previously hosted a Superfresh grocery store at 4330 48th…

Last week, an eviction of a Deanwood strip mall made the news, prompting questions about the fairness of the one-day, safety-citing notice to vacate and leading one of the tenants to challenge the closure. If the developer moves forward,…

Don Peebles, a national real estate developer who began his career in D.C. in the 1980s, has seen the nation's capital go through several distinct waves of hospitality development. The latest iteration, Peebles said, is the introduction of…

While H Street Main Street's lofty vision of a massive redevelopment at the Starburst intersection (map) may still be theoretical, other development extending east of the H Street Corridor is still at various stages in the pipeline. Today,…

A D.C. business group that has previously criticized the District’s unemployment and estate taxes as well as its progressive paid leave law for being too costly has a different message in its latest report: Many people are falling behind or…

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on plans in the works for a residential building on the Masonic Temple-owned lot at 15th Street and S Street NW (map). Now, we're getting our first look at the by-right project. Perseus TDC has filed an…