Showing posts with label Dewberry Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dewberry Development. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Lots of Cleared Lots for Sale in the Palisades

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Encore Development, land sale, Palisades, commercial propertyEncore Development and their engineers at Dewberry and Davis are wrapping up razing and land development work at 4800 U Street, NW, making way for eight, freshly-cleared lots that range in size from 6,000 to 12,500 s.f.  Located just a block from MacArthur Boulevard, the parcels, dubbed Berkley-Chase, are now "up for sale to either individuals or home builders," according to Encore principal, Steve Kay and will sell for $925,000-$995,000 each. Dewberry and Davis engineers, land development, Washington DCThe Berkley-Chase development makes up approximately half of the 3.2 acre parcel Encore originally purchased back in 2007. Encore sold the other half of the property to the St. Patrick's School before razing the late 1940s home on the property, commencing sewer work, and putting in a series of retaining walls between the lots for sale and the adjoining St. Patrick's School property. Kay says his company has quietly begun putting the lots on sale and is "working on a couple potential deals now." To date, none of the lots have been sold, but more prominent listings with Washington Fine Properties should be popping up in the coming weeks. 

Washington DC real estate and development news

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Marymount University Digs Itself a New Hole

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Arlington  Virginia real estate development news - Marymount University
With its’ 60th anniversary just around the corner, Arlington’s Marymount University looks to be buying itself a $25 million present a few years early.

Next month will see Dewberry Development break ground on two "contemporary neo-classical buildings" Dewberry Development breaks ground on residential project at Marymount University in Arlingtonthat will take the place of a Marymount parking lot bounded by Old Dominion Drive, Yorktown Boulevard and 26th Street North. Plans for the Davis Carter Scott-designed sibling structures, a dormitory and academic building respectively, were initially approved by Arlington County Board of Supervisors in July 2007.

Rose Bente' Lee Ostapenko Hall (good luck to the co-eds stammering over that one after a few jell-o shots), the 6-story, 75,000 square foot dormitory going up on the site, was named for – you guessed it -Rose Bente' Lee Ostapenko, the University’s current Secretary to the Board of Trustees and founder of the Rose Bente' Lee Endowed Scholarship Fund. Ms. Ostapenko also lent funds (and, surprise, her name) to Marymount’s student center in 1999.

That 239-bed facility will be erected concurrently with Caruthers Hall, a 4-story, 52,000 squareDewberry Development breaks ground on residential project at Marymount University in Arlington, designed by Davis Carter Scott foot academic building. The new building will house classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices, and lab space for health science, chemistry, physics and biology. The facility is being named in honor of Preston C. Caruthers, chairman of Arlington real estate firm, Carfam II Associates LP, and longtime Marymount supporter.

The 2 new structures will both sit atop an underground, 4-story, 145,000 square foot parking garage that will contain 370 new spaces. A new plaza will straddle the gap between the academic building and dormitory, while an overhead pedestrian footpath will be erected across Yorktown Road and connect the facilities with Marymount proper.

“This initiative responds directly to Marymount’s most critical needs,” said university president Dr. James E. Bundschuh. “The new facilities will help us meet the increasing demand for campus housing, significantly enhance instruction in key academic programs, and address the parking challenges that we have faced for several years.”Davis Construction and Harkins Builders contribute to Marymount University's new campus plan in Arlington

The 4 Arlington communities bordering the Marymount campus - Old Dominion, Donaldson Run, Yorktown and Rock Spring – have already lent their approval to the project. Davis Construction and Harkins Builders Inc. will be going to ground on the site starting next month. Further BIDs are due by September 25th. The project is slated for completion in time for the start of the 2010 academic year.

Arlington Virginia real estate development news
 

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