An 800-Unit Expansion Pitched For Arlington's Potomac Towers

• July 1st

by UrbanTurf Staff

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The owner of Potomac Towers, an 11-story, 406-unit apartment building near I-66 in Arlington, has filed applications to redevelop the nearly seven-acre property into a phased, mixed-use complex with as many as 800 additional units. 

The redevelopment from owner Caruthers Properties would unfold in phases across three "landbays." The existing Potomac Towers building would remain untouched as Landbay A, while Landbay B — the first phase — would add a new high-rise with 300 units, along with resident amenities, an elevated outdoor courtyard, and a 20,000-square-foot plaza/park hybrid at North Adams and 20th Streets North. That building would be served by a 270-space, four-level garage. 

A second phase, Landbay C, would eventually replace roughly 327 surface parking spaces on the property's eastern half with up to 500 units split between two towers atop a shared podium, plus a smaller plaza and a realigned, tree-lined stretch of 20th Street North with a new greenway.

Altogether, the project, designed by KGD Architecture, would create nearly an acre of new public open space at full buildout and nearly double the number of units on the site — all while keeping the original Potomac Towers building in place.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/an_800-unit_expansion_pitched_for_arlingtons_potomac_towers/24776.