When is a groundbreaking not a groundbreaking? Perhaps when the project is already well under way and a small box of dirt serves as shovel fodder on the rooftop of a nearby 
building, which was the scene at today's groundbreaking at 733 10th Street, NW. Still, progress is progress, and the new 10-story, 200,000 s.f. Skanska building at 10th and G Streets, NW, will change the face of the site that neighbors the MLK Library. According to Robert Ward, Executive Vice President at Skanska, the new structure should top out by the end of the year.A church, in various iterations (see demolished church, at bottom), has sat at the site since 1865. Over five years ago First Congregational United Church of Christ released an RFP for the site, originally selecting PNHoffman as the developer for what was then planned as a combined condominium, church office, and homeless shelter and later an office building. When the developer ultimately lost financing,
Ward and his team stepped into the picture and have been working with PNHoffman and the congregation to rework the plan for the downtown site for almost a year. Skanska now acts as the developer, financier and general contractor with PNHoffman as non-financing partner.Under the agreement between Skanska and the church, Skanska will spend $21 million on the build out, and the church will get 25,000 s.f. of worship and office space, and 20 below-grade parking spaces. The religious portion will be designed by Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects of New York.
Designed by Cunningham | Quill to achieve LEED Gold certification, the building will feature a vegetat
ed green roof and hexagonal glass facade - from the fourth floor up. Upwards of 4,000 s.f. of ground floor retail will be a "nice enhancement" for the neighborhood, according to Ward, who hopes to secure a restaurant tenant. Delivery is expected by October of 2011, with development costs around $85 million.Washington, DC real estate development news
8 comments:
wow, another glass box, with a bent on the facade! thanks for nothing
No ground floor retail?
C+Q very much took their design ideas from shalom baranes...and thats not saying much. no one seems to want to try anymore.
and going in the vein of the height limits discussion, im pretty sure that if allowed, this building would have looked exactly the same, only three times as tall.
C+Q=hacks
C+Q=hacks
Ya, but 3 times as tall would have been kind of cool in its own right. Squat buildings don't quite capture the imagination.
Really, hacks? Kind of harsh, don't you think?
According to the sign at the site there is ground floor retail. The image seems to show a cafe or restaurant.
The owners of the building will be leasing half the ground floor space for retail and some type of food place... However, as stated, the ground floors belong to First Congregational...
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