The Last Piece of Potomac Yard: Mill Creek Residential Pitches 398-Unit Apartment Building

• February 26th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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Mill Creek Residential is looking to develop one of the final parcels at Potomac Yard.

The developer is under contract to purchase Land Bay C-West, a parcel in the long-transforming mixed-use neighborhood straddling the Alexandria-Arlington border (map). The seller is the German grocer Lidl, which has owned the surface parking lot site for roughly a decade. 

Mill Creek's proposal for the parcel is an 8-story apartment building with 398 units. The single building, designed by SK+I Architecture, would front Crystal Drive, with its massing broken up by a two-story mid-block paseo and two substantial courtyards facing the street. Amenities will be concentrated on the ground floor of the project, and a pool is planned for one of the courtyards. A two-level underground garage will provide 286 parking spaces. 

Perhaps the most useful piece of the project from a neighborhood standpoint is Mill Creek's plan for a public plaza and open space that would complete North Park Plaza. The plaza would connect directly with the public open space already planned on the adjacent Land Bay C-East site, effectively knitting together the two parcels into a unified public amenity. 

Mill Creek's proposal would help close out the reinvention of one of the largest rail yards in the Mid-Atlantic. The arrival of the Potomac Yard Metro station in 2023 repositioned the area as one of the region's most transit-connected addresses. On the Land Bay C-East parcel, ZOM Living delivered Hazel and Azure, a pair of residential towers with nearly 500 apartments, in 2024. Further south along the corridor, Bozzuto and MGL Partners completed The Frasier, a 249-unit luxury rental community on Land Bays H and I that has been open since 2015.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_last_piece_of_potomac_yard_mill_creek_residential_eyes_398-unit_apartme/24361.