RSS FeedZoning Adjustments Underway At Center City Development
This week, we noticed a small sign attached to two small wooden posts on the south side of the old convention center parking lot at about 9th & H St NW (AKA the site of the Center City development). We were going to take a picture of the sign this morning, but it appears that yesterday’s rain storms washed away the sign because all that is left are the two wooden posts. That’s ok, because we remembered the date for the public meeting it was announcing: Dec 1st. Here is a link to the official public notice that was on the sign and the text:
Case Number: 18002
Case Name: Application of Gould Property Company, through Square 374 LLC
Case Summary: (Area Variance,Special Exceptions) pursuant to 11 DCMR § 3104.1, and 3103.2, for special exceptions to provide two rooftop structures that are of varying heights under subsections 411.11 and 777.1, and from the loading requirements to provide a non-dedicated service and delivery space under subsection 2201.1 and 2202.2, and variances to provide elevator penthouses with a maximum height of 22 feet under subsections 400.7, 411.2, and 777.1, to allow the construction of a new office building with ground floor retail in the DD/C-3-C District at premises 900 new York Avenue, N.W. (Square 374, Lot 45).
ANC: 2F06
Zoning adjustments don’t necessarily indicate that construction is imminent, but any activity on the site is welcomed! The project website now anticipates construction to start in 2010. At our last update, construction was scheduled to start in March 2009. Of interesting note is that the project now includes a 400 room hotel, which we don’t recall being part of the original plan. No doubt, the current state of the housing market is prompting developers to choose the construction of hotels over condos.
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I’d add a hotel too. With JBG halting construction on the convention center hotel, who knows how many years, if ever, it will take to get that hotel built and operating.