170-Unit Residential Project, New Church Planned For Southwest

• March 16, 2015

by Lark Turner

Rendering of new project.

The developer at work on the massive Wharf redevelopment project is planning yet another building for Southwest, this time in partnership with Riverside Baptist Church.

In a planned-unit development application filed with the Zoning Commission on Monday, the company laid out plans for a 170-unit residential building and a new church located at 7th and I Streets SW (map). The building is across the street from the construction PN Hoffman is undertaking on the 3.2 million-square-foot Wharf project.

The project will include 135-170 parking spaces, including 40 spaces for the church. The development may include some ground-floor retail. In its application, PN Hoffman said it expects the project to take about 22 months to build once its application is approved. Studios Architecture and Geier Brown Renfrow are the architects.

The building will have larger, family-sized units, the application notes, “in response to community preferences.” About 45 percent of the units will be “larger, more family-inclusive units than what is typically found in apartment buildings in new construction in the Southwest neighborhood and elsewhere in the close-in neighborhoods of the District,” the filing reads. “These will include a mixture of one-bedroom with dens units, two-bedroom units, and two-bedroom with dens units.” The project will also have a playground and may include a daycare.

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