360 Degrees H Street Breaks Ground

• July 19th 2011

by UrbanTurf Staff

On Tuesday morning, Steuart Investment Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony for 360 (degrees) H Street, a 215-unit apartment project anchored by a Giant supermarket in the H Street Corridor. The project at 3rd and H Street NE (map) is scheduled to deliver by 2013.

The 286,500 square-foot project was designed by Torti Gallas and will consist of a six-story, LEED certified building with a 42,000 square-foot Giant supermarket on the ground floor. Plans are for two floors of underground parking. After Trader Joe’s, Harris Teeter and Yes! Organic all passed on the opportunity, last November, Giant Food signed on to anchor the new project, which will be one of many new apartment projects in the area.

UrbanTurf has written about the “explosive effect” that the opening of a grocery store can have on a neighborhood. Examples throughout the city are numerous: the “urban lifestyle” Safeway on the ground floor of CityVista at 5th and L Street NW is always one of the first amenities cited by residents of Mount Vernon Triangle; the rapidly changing but oft-overlooked Southwest neighborhood now has a newly renovated Safeway that was long derided as sloppy and understocked; and the Jenkins Row Harris Teeter on Pennsylvania Avenue in Capitol Hill helped sell the 250+ units in that condo project. It will be interesting to see if the new Giant has a similar effect.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/360_degrees_h_street_breaks_ground_on_tuesday/3817.