Friday, December 11, 2009

Clarendon Center Approved and On Schedule


Clarendon Center looks likely to accomplish a feat many other construction projects cannot these days - delivering both planned elements of a project at the same time, on time. Impressive too because the project required complicated excavation, demolition and construction work close to the subway tunnel that runs under Clarendon Blvd. Developer Saul Centers Inc. (SCI) expects both buildings, which offer a mixture of office, retail and residential, to be finished and ready for tenants come the 3rd quarter of 2010.
Construction began in summer of 2008 on the south buildings of the large mixed-use project that sit directly across from the Clarendon Metro. The south buildings topped out in late October and the six-story north office building just received an above grade building permit in late November, for 171,000 s.f. of office space and 42,000 s.f. of retail space. Chris Sowick of Cassidy & Pinkard claims "significant interest" in the project, adding that the buildings do not necessarily require a large anchor tenant; the smaller floor plates of the 6-story north building mean a tenant could rent a space "as small as 7,800 s.f." The south buildings offer 9 stories of office and retail space and 12 stories of residential space, which includes 244 rental units. Nothing is leased on the south building either, though Mary Beth Avedesian, the Vice President of Acquisitions & Development at SCI, said there has been a lot of interest in the project given the proximity to the metro, especially from restaurants. Avedesian indicated the group is in "various stages of negotiation," but nothing finalized. Avedesian offered that rents seem to "still be holding up" at the expected level around $50 to $70 per s.f. for retail space. Construction for the project is by Clark Construction. The buildings were designed by Torti Gallas

Clarendon real estate development news

4 comments:

IMGoph on Dec 14, 2009, 11:27:00 AM said...

clicking on the images in this article gives you a dead link. c'mon, guys, you used to respond to comments. why do you have so many poorly linked images on your stories these days?

Shaun on Dec 14, 2009, 12:54:00 PM said...

IMGoph: We've seen your requests for images. Here's the deal: When we receive permission to publish images that we obtained directly from a developer, architect, etc. we post them to our site and do our best to limit unapproved distribution of those images by making them not clickable for the full size image. If an image is publicly available or we have received permission from the image owner to allow outside users to take those images, then we will make them available without attached links. Hopefully that clears everything up. Thanks for your continued readership.

IMGoph on Dec 14, 2009, 1:48:00 PM said...

shaun: thanks for the response, that makes sense.

please make sure to let the folks whom you get imagery from know that if they have something that includes text, only being able to see it in a reduced format doesn't help us fully figure out what's going on.

Anonymous said...

thanks Shaun, we just like pictures so keep up the good work and well, thanks for everything!

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