474-Unit Rosslyn Project to Break Ground Later This Month

• January 7th 2011

by UrbanTurf Staff

DCmud reported recently that a large residential project will break ground on January 25th in Rosslyn. Called Rosslyn Commons, the project will include 474 units spread across 25 town houses and two towers. It will occupy the entire city block bounded by Clarendon Boulevard, 17th Street, N. Oak,16th Road,and N. Ode Street (map).

The firm behind Rosslyn Commons, local developer giant JBG, has not said exactly what the mix of units will be between rental apartments and condos. In earlier reports, JBG indicated that it was leaning toward rentals but that one of the two towers might ultimately deliver as condos, market conditions permitting.

“The market has certainly come back for condominiums, we think there’s potentially a good opportunity for that there,” JBG development manager Bryan Moll told TBD in late November. “We’ll make that call within a few months of beginning construction.”

What is decided is that 55 units will be set aside as affordable rentals.

The two towers will include a rooftop pool and fitness center. There will be a plaza between the towers with a landscaped courtyard and retail space that will allow pedestrians to cut through the block between Clarendon Boulevard and 16th Road.

Construction is expected to take about two years. The towers are being built first, with the town houses to follow.

As more development gets underway across the DC region, Rosslyn seems to be leading the charge. Earlier this week another well-known DC-area developer Abdo broke ground on a luxury condo project just a few blocks away called Gaslight Square. Recall that Rosslyn was named one of the Neighborhoods of 2015 by DCmud publisher Ken Johnson, who said of the area:

Imagine, if you will, sit-down restaurants, markets open on weekends, coffee houses, people coming to the neighborhood for dinner and a movie. If the business district can tackle middle age, and remedy its overly wide streets, walkways to nowhere, retail problem, and unbuffered sidewalks — all of which the local BID has pondered — it may yet offer more than just office space in a safe zip code.

For more on Rosslyn Commons, see:

• Rosslyn Commons groundbreaking planned for January
• Demolition at Rosslyn Commons
• JBG Companies’ Rosslyn Commons (approved plans)
• Arlington County OKs JBG’s Rosslyn Commons project

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/474-unit_rosslyn_project_to_break_ground_later_this_month/2815.