9½ Street Initiative

U Street Corridor

The first phase of the redevelopment would renovate and retrofit the school building to create 30,000 square feet of office space, including the new headquarters of development architect Torti Gallas + Partners, an 11,000 square-foot permanent home for the African-American Civil War Museum, and 4,000 square feet of cultural use space administered by CulturalDC. A four-floor addition to the building will take up 1,325 square feet of existing courtyard space. In the second phase, a fourth floor will be added to the existing gymnasium on the site, which will be renovated and expanded horizontally to the north and south.