2715 M Street NW
Douglas Development is looking to convert the office and retail building at 2715 M Street NW (map) into a fully residential project. The plans call for 28 new apartments to be added to the existing eight residential units; the new units will primarily be one-bedrooms. Emotive Architecture is designing the conversion. There are currently 62 vehicle parking spaces on the basement level, but only 11 spaces will be required upon change of use. There will also be bicycle parking on the lowest level.
EastBanc plans to break ground in the coming months on a five-story, seven-unit building at 2715 Pennsylvania Avenue NW (map). The residences will average 2,000 square feet and there will be a ground-floor restaurant with outdoor seating. Souto Moura Arquitectos is the designer and Shinberg/Levinas Architectural Design is the architect of record.
Ground broke in 2023 on the long-awaited retrofit and redevelopment of the Georgetown West Heating Plant at 1051-1055 29th Street NW (map). The Georgetown Companies and the Levy Group plan to turn the property into a Four Season-branded condominium building, delivering up to 70 units and a one-acre public park that sits elevated atop roughly 100 parking spaces. Sir David Adjaye designed the building and Laurie Olin designed the park.
A plan is in the works to replace an office building adjacent to The British International School of Washington at 3300 Whitehaven Street NW (map) with a five-story residential/educational building. Grosvenor is the developer and Hickok Cole is the architect.
As proposed, the building will have 265 residential units and approximately 5,600 square feet for use by the British International School. The unit mix will span from studios to three-bedrooms, and the new development will also include a below-grade auditorium and reconfigured outdoor recreation space. There will be 256 parking spaces.
1000 and 1050 Thomas Jefferson Street
The largest residential conversion planned in Georgetown is continuing to move forward.
An affiliate of Potomac Investment Trust has plans in the works to convert the buildings at 1000 and 1050 Thomas Jefferson Street NW (map) for residential use.
The conversion of 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street would consist of the addition of two levels plus a penthouse, with residential units on the upper floors and commercial uses continuing on the lower levels. The conversion would add approximately 95-115 residential units, and the existing 140 parking spaces and loading areas in the building will remain.
1050 Thomas Jefferson Street will be converted to a primarily residential building with the addition of three levels and a penthouse. The preliminary unit count for this building is approximately 170-220 units. The existing 230 below grade parking spaces will remain. Shalom Baranes Associates is in charge of the design for the conversion of both buildings.
Fortis Companies is in the process of replacing the single-story commercial building and surface parking lot at 1805 Wisconsin Avenue NW (map) with nine new townhouses, an elevated courtyard and retail. Christian Zapatka is the architect.
Canal House
Douglas Development is looking to retrofit the five-story office building at 1023 31st Street NW (map) into Canal House, a 90-100 room hotel.
The office building at the address would be wholly converted; two adjacent rowhouses would remain, although prior rear additions to the rowhouses would be demolished in order to create an interior courtyard and construct a rear addition to the hotel. The lower level of the office building, currently a garage, would be retrofit into an exercise room, "breakfast area", and back-of-house space. FILLAT + Architecture is the designer.
The new Georgetown hotel that the Jose Andres Group is partnering on is moving forward.
Thor Equities submitted a permit review application to DC's Historic Preservation Review Board in October for the new luxury hotel at 3000 M Street NW (map), the site of the old Latham Hotel and an address where various iterations of a hotel have been in the works for years. In partnership with Thor Equities, Jose Andres will curate a number of food and beverage concepts at the hotel, which will also feature a private membership club, events space, a wellness center.
The Bazaar House by José Andrés, scheduled to open in 2027.
citizenM Hotel on Water Street
Work continues on a new 228-room citizenM hotel along Water Street. The development team is reusing the façade of the two-story building at 3401 Water Street NW (map) and constructing a five-story-plus-penthouse addition. Baskervill is the architect of record and concrete is the design architect.
Leasing is underway at Weaver's Row, a 115-unit apartment project at 3220 Prospect Street NW (map). The development from W. T. Weaver and Sons and developer McCaffery Interests was designed by Eric Colbert and Associates.
