Watergate conversion

Foggy Bottom

Friedman Capital Advisors has filed an application with the DC Zoning Commission seeking to convert the top six floors of the Watergate Office Building at 2600 Virginia Avenue NW into residential use. The proposal would transform floors six through eleven into 87 units — 76 apartments spread across floors six through nine, and 11 for-sale condominiums on floors ten and eleven. The conversion is being pursued as a "Modification Without Hearing," a streamlined zoning process that allows changes to an approved planned unit development to be reviewed without requiring witness testimony before the Commission. Friedman argues the proposal qualifies because it doesn't increase the building's height, density, or footprint, and doesn't require any changes to the existing zoning map. The building would require only limited exterior façade modifications to accommodate the residential floors.