The 4 Developments In The Works In Adams Morgan

• November 18th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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The residential pipeline in Adams Morgan has slowed in recent years, and now there are just a handful of projects in the works for the neighborhood along 18th Street NW. 

Perhaps the most notable news in the last year is that plans for the former SunTrust bank property at 18th and Columbia Road NW have come into focus. Truist donated the site to Jubilee House, and the nonprofit unveiled plans earlier this year for a new all-affordable development at the location. 

Below, UrbanTurf revisits what has happened since our last look at Adams Morgan's residential pipeline. If we missed a large project in the works, please shoot us an email at editor(at)urbanturf.com. 

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SunTrust Plaza Affordable Development

The new concept planned for one of DC's most contentious development sites will be a seven-story, all-affordable development with approximately 50 residential units at the former SunTrust branch and adjacent plaza at 18th Street and Columbia Road (map).

Designed by Eric Colbert & Associates, the project from Jubilee Housing would include retail spaces on the first level, and a community room on the penthouse. The plaza area in front of the building would be a space for building and community events. 

To say that it has been a long road for the development of this site would be an understatement. UrbanTurf first started covering development plans eight years ago, when PN Hoffman pitched a six-story, 58-unit condominium building for the site. Years of community pushback and court proceedings followed, which ultimately led to the demise of the condo project and the bank donating the property to Jubilee last fall. 

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EucKal

Nonprofit Jubilee Housing is currently at work turning the vacant Transcentury Building at 1724 Kalorama Road NW (map) into 25 apartments, an expanded ground floor space for the Sitar Arts Center, and penthouse office space for Jubilee. Bonstra|Haresign is the designer.

The unit mix will include seven two-bedrooms and nine each of one- and three-bedrooms. Two-thirds of the units will be for households earning up to 30% of median family income (MFI) and the remainder will be for households earning up to 60% of MFI. 

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Ontario Place

A block away at 2400 Ontario Road NW (map), another Jubilee Housing development is under construction. This development will retrofit and add to the existing storefronts, delivering 52 apartments, half for returning citizens, earning up to 30% and 60% of MFI.

There will also be a rooftop aquaponics farm meant to yield fresh produce that can be sold to the community and to local restaurants and other vendors, while also serving as a workforce development opportunity for the residents. The abutting King Emmanuel Baptist Church will house another 18 beds for returning citizens.

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Brass Knob Warehouse Redevelopment

King's Creek is still working to retrofit the former Brass Knob warehouse at 2329 and 2335 Champlain Street NW (map) into a 31-unit project designed by Bonstra|Haresign Architects. However, earlier this year, the development team received a two-year extension from its approval for the plans from DC's Board of Zoning Adjustment, so the project will be delayed. 

Six of the units will be IZ and the unit mix would span from 428 square-foot studios to 994 square-foot two-bedrooms. Some of the units will have outdoor space and there will also be a fitness center, 16 bicycle spaces, 8 vehicular spaces and one carshare space. 

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_4_developments_in_the_works_in_adams_morgan/22929.