Eastbanc to Announce Design of New West End Residences on April 25th

• April 8th 2011

by UrbanTurf Staff

DCmud reported this morning that Eastbanc will announce the design for its new West End project at an ANC meeting on April 25th.

The design has been a long time coming as the developer was originally chosen to redevelop the sites of the neighborhood’s fire house and library by the city almost a year ago.

From DCmud:

Eastbanc’s proposal is for a 52-unit low-income (max 60% AMI), 90 foot residential building above a new fire station on M Street, and a 10-story residence of up to 180 units above a new library and retail filling the 2300 block of L Street.

As UrbanTurf has reported, Eastbanc also has a number of other residential projects in the works just a little farther west in Georgetown.

There is a planned 35-37 unit, five-story development at the site of the Exxon station at 3607 M Street NW (map), adjacent to the stairs that were made famous in the movie The Exorcist. Units will range in size from 1,800 to 2,200 square feet. A nine-unit project that will have much larger (2,500 to 4,000 square feet) condos is planned for 1045 Wisconsin Avenue NW (map). And, in early February, it was reported that Eastbanc will transform the Old Georgetown Post Office into a boutique condo development. The residential units at the post office project will likely range in size from 1,100 to 1,300 square feet, and the postal service will retain retail space in the new development. Below-grade parking will be provided for both residents and post office employees.

UrbanTurf spoke with Eastbanc’s Mary Mottershead in early March who provided a general timeline for the three projects.

“Nothing will start for at least a year,” Mottershead told UrbanTurf. “Our plan is to have all three [Georgetown] projects built within six months of one another.”

Mottershead indicated that construction on the post office project would likely start first, then the Wisconsin Avenue project (internally called The Verizon because it will be built on a parking lot in front of the Verizon switching building) and finally the development on the current site of the Georgetown Exxon.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/eastbanc_to_announce_new_west_end_residences_on_april_25th/3295.