Dance Loft Redevelopment

Petworth

The plan to replace the longtime home of Dance Loft on 14th Street with a mixed-use residential building has, like a number of other developments in DC, hit headwinds due to construction and financing issues. Dance Loft Ventures, a partnership between the nonprofit arts institution and Heleos Development, is requesting an extension for the approval of its plans to build a five-story-plus-penthouse building with 101 apartments — 66 of them affordable — along with new theater, dance studio, and art gallery space at 4609-4618 14th Street NW. The development team is asking for a two-year extension to file building permits, meaning that construction would need to commence by 2028.