Burnham Place

NoMa

It has been a long road for Burnham Place, which is named for Union Station designer Daniel Burnham. Akridge won the air rights back in 2002 and then purchased those rights in 2006, but it has seen a series of stops and starts over the last 20 years. The plan across 15 acres could result in a 12-building development with three million square feet of mixed-use above the station's railyard, delivering over 1,300 residential units, office space and retail, hotels, and public plazas and a central space that bisects the project. It would sit between First Street and G Place NE and the historic Railway Express Building at 900 2nd Street NE. Shalom Baranes is the project architect.