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A 295-Unit Office-To-Residential Conversion Pitched In Courthouse

  • July 16th 2025

by UrbanTurf Staff

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A rendering of the conversion. 

Another office-to-residential conversion is on the boards for Arlington. 

Quadrangle Development has filed plans with Arlington County to convert an almost entirely vacant nine-story office building at 1320 North Courthouse Road (map) into a 295-unit residential development. The project -- designed by DCS Design -- will have some sort of retail component on the first level, but unclear what that will be. 

"The Applicant requests flexibility for retail, retail equivalent, and/or residential use," the filing stated. "The building entry does not have street frontage, which makes flexibility for nonretail uses particularly important as retailers lack the visibility required for successful retail use."

The existing office building has nearly 700 parking spaces, so Quadrangle is proposing to keep a portion of those spaces while potentially convert a section of the parking garage into residential or retail space. 

Quadrangle acquired the office building from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which listed it for sale last year, touting possibilities for a residential or hotel conversion. 

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a_295-unit_office-to-residential_conversion_pitched_in_courthouse/23688.

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