Arlington County To Weigh Major Actions Advancing RiverHouse Redevelopment

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by UrbanTurf Staff

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This weekend, the Arlington County Board is set to take up a series of measures that would advance the redevelopment or the RiverHouse project in Pentagon City. 

The central action before the Board is a rezoning request for the nearly 36-acre site—located at 1111 Army Navy Drive, 1400 S. Joyce Street, and 1600 S. Joyce Street—that would formalize the framework in the Pentagon City Sector Plan and allow for both infill and new construction totaling nearly 4,500 residential units at full buildout.

Alongside the rezoning, the Board will consider multiple items to vacate portions of street, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer easements on the property. These changes would enable the relocation of utility lines to make way for new buildings and streetscape improvements.

The set of final site plans under consideration would deliver roughly 745 new housing units in the near term, spanning rental units and for-sale townhomes. Approximately 1,676 existing apartments would be preserved, while future phases could lead to more than 2,040 additional dwellings being built. 

Beyond housing, the proposal includes major new public-realm investments. The developer plans to add at least 2.5 acres of public open space across the site and expand the surrounding pedestrian and bike-network infrastructure. A two-way cycle track would be constructed along South Joyce Street, and a multi-use trail is planned along the edge of an expanded Virginia Highlands Park. Retail is also anticipated in later phases. 

The County Board will consider the development at its meeting this Saturday. 

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/arlington_county_to_weigh_major_actions_advancing_4500-unit_riverhouse_rede/24138.