The Roller Coaster Development Scene In Tenleytown and AU Park

• February 11th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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The development pipeline in the Tenleytown and AU Park neighborhoods is on a little bit of a roller coaster. The small handful of projects in the pipeline are either moving full steam ahead, getting started again or are not moving ahead at all. 

Below, UrbanTurf takes a look at the latest with the developments in the works along this stretch of Wisconsin Avenue. If we missed a big one, just shoot us an email at editor(at)urbaturf.com. 

In case you missed them, here are the other neighborhoods we have compiled development updates for so far this year:

• Hotels, Heating Plants & Conversions: The 10 Big Projects In The Works In Georgetown
• The Nearly 3,000 Units Still In The Works For Navy Yard
• The 4 Developments On The Boards Around Howard University

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Broadcast

It has been a bumpy road for Broadcast, the office-to-residential development at 4620-4624 Wisconsin Avenue NW (map). Urban Investment Partners defaulted on a loan to develop the 144-unit project in mid-2025, but then worked out a deal to re-acquire the property at the end of the year. Construction has yet to resume on the eight-story project that will have 11,600 square feet of retail and 58 below-grade parking spaces. The unit mix will span from studios to two-bedrooms, and 15 of the apartments will be set aside for households earning up to 60% of area median income (AMI). 

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Dancing Crab Redevelopment

Plans to redevelop the former Dancing Crab site on Wisconsin Avenue appear to be dead.

The development site at at 4615 Wisconsin Avenue NW (map) was listed for sale last September. Plans have been on the boards since 2017 to deliver a seven-story project with 41 apartments at the address. A planned unit development (PUD) was approved by the DC Zoning Commission, but then the owner received a number of extensions for the approval, citing an inability to secure governmental agency approvals.

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Lady Bird Modera

Construction is ongoing to redevelop AU Park's former Superfresh grocery site into a 234-unit development dubbed Modera Lady Bird. Mill Creek Residential and PGIM Real Estate are on pace to deliver the development at 4330 48th Street NW (map) next year. The Torti Gallas-designed project will have an organic grocery store on-site and 12% of the residential space will be inclusionary zoning units.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_3_developments_in_the_tenleytown_and_au_park_pipeline/24307.