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MOUNT VERNON TRIANGLE ACTION AGENDA
KEY POINTS
- Negotiating a Reality-based Plan for the City’s Newest
Neighborhood
- A Public-Private Partnership to create a Neighborhood that Works:
providing a brand new community of downtown residents with amenities
and services – such as a retail street and grocery store; and a well
defined, well landscaped system of streets and open spaces
SUMMARY
THE MOUNT VERNON TRIANGLE ACTION AGENDA
Creating a vibrant new downtown neighborhood in Washington DC
The Mount Vernon Triangle is a rapidly emerging new neighborhood near
the heart of downtown Washington. Located on 30 acres of under-built land
with great redevelopment promise, the Triangle is bounded by New York,
Massachusetts, and New Jersey Avenues and is situated just east of the new
Washington Convention Center and City Museum at Mount Vernon Square.
Surrounded by new developments under construction at Mount Vernon Square
and along Massachusetts Avenue, several projects are already in progress
within the Triangle, and others are not far behind.
In light of this momentum, City agencies, property owners, and the
community have come together in an unusual partnership to create a vision
and a development framework for a vibrant new residential and mixed-use
neighborhood. This is a framework of great streets, neighborhood gateways,
and activity centers, such as a new park and public plaza. They have also
agreed to a five-point action strategy to ensure that this vision can be
achieved quickly and with lasting benefit to all City residents.
The Mount Vernon Triangle has the potential to be lively and diverse,
to contain a mixture of housing, workplaces, shopping, culture, and unique
public spaces. This could include 4,000-5,000 new housing units, 1-2
million square feet of office space, 500-800 hotel rooms, 50,000 to
1000,000 square feet of cultural uses, 80,000-120,000 square feet of
retail and restaurants, and 50,000 to 100,000 square feet of open space.
The Triangle has the potential to benefit from a confluence of new
urban housing demand, arts, and institutions to create a competitive
advantage attracting new residents and businesses to the District of
Columbia. As a largely unbuilt area, it also presents a rare opportunity
to create a landmark neighborhood for the City, with the innovative and
exceptional design of its architecture and public spaces.
A PUBLIC / PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP:
Consensus goals and guiding principles
Together, District officials, area property owners, and the community
have established target objectives for the Mount Vernon Triangle’s
development. These are to:
- Recognize the importance of residential development and retail to
foster a "living downtown"
- Respond to current downtown housing market demands of empty-nesters,
young professionals and non-traditional families, while still
providing options for parents with children
- Create a flexible urban design framework which accommodates a
mixture of residential and commercial development
- Promote affordable housing and neighborhood amenities; protect
existing communities and their institutions
- Provide locations for nonprofit institutions and non-traditional,
innovative businesses
- Welcome smaller-scale performing arts, museum and gallery spaces
- Connect to adjoining residential neighborhoods and to the growing
downtown
- Focus public and private actions to accelerate the Triangle’s
development, expand the District’s tax base, create jobs, and
enhance values
THE VISION:
A framework of great places
The Mount Vernon Triangle is envisioned as a distinctive urban
neighborhood containing:
- A diverse population of residents, workers, and visitors
- A core of arts, retail, and cultural activities
- Active building ground floors and street life
- A generous public realm of streetscapes, parks and plazas
- Innovative contemporary architecture and landscape design
A flexible urban design framework accommodates mixed-use development
and is composed of great streets, activity centers, and gateways:
5th Street:
This is the Triangle’s shopping street, connecting to the Mount Vernon
neighborhood and the downtown. It is the location of a plaza at the 5th
and K intersection and Park Reserve "gateways" at Massachusetts
and New York Avenues.
K Street:
K Street’s wide sidewalks accommodate a gracious linear park linking
Mount Vernon Square to the Triangle’s new neighborhood park and
community facility.
Residential Streets:
Quieter streets in the eastern portion of the Triangle are good locations
for green residential streets with individual stoops and sidewalk gardens.
The Avenues:
The Avenues offer institutions and other uses a great Washington address.
With a rhythm of grand entries and generous landscaping, these great
formal streets traverse the City from east to west and anchor the Triangle
in the L’Enfant plan.
A FIVE-POINT ACTION AGENDA
Coordinating public and private actions to implement the vision
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1st Actions in progress: |
1. Placemaking Design Recommendations |
[MVT Action Agenda Document] |
2. Overlay Zoning for Active Streets |
[Task Force & OP Drafting Overlay Zoning] |
3. Coordination of Capital Improvements |
[RFPs for Street/Open Space Design & Transport
Study] |
4. Development of Public Priority Sites |
[Wax Museum Site Developer Selection] |
5. Creating a Management Entity |
[CID] |
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Fact Sheet for Mount Vernon Triangle
- 15 blocks (between New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts Avenues,
NW)
- 30 acres of land and 4 acres of air rights
- 1.4 million square feet of land and air rights
- 800,000 square feet of land to build on
- Large owners of undeveloped property
|
Land Owned |
Commercial Build Out (Est) |
Residential Build Out (Est) |
DC Government |
168,000 |
50,000 SF (retail) |
1,200 units |
Lowe Team |
139,000 |
109,000 SF (retail) |
623 |
Steuart Investments |
135,000 |
600,000 SF (office/hotel)
30,000 SF (retail) |
740 |
Wilkes Company |
74,000 |
440,000 (office)
40,000 (retail) |
420 |
Trammell Crow |
63,000 |
250,000 SF (office)
10,000 SF (retail) |
400 |
Douglas Development |
57,000 |
230,000 SF (office/hotel) |
350 |
Quadrangle Development |
54,000 |
225,000 SF (office) |
330 |
Miscellaneous Smaller Owners |
110,000 |
660,000 SF (office/hotel) |
650 |
TOTAL |
800,000 |
2,345,000 SF (office or hotel)
239,000 SF (retail) |
4,713 units |
|
Land Owned |
Commercial Build Out |
Residential Build Out |
Bush Construction |
230,000 |
10,000 SF (retail) |
450 (Low Income Primarily) |
Bible Way Church |
80,000 |
NA |
NA |
Golden Rule Apartments |
67,000 |
NA |
119 (Senior Apartments) |
Dweck Properties |
55,000 |
384,000 (office) |
0 |
Douglas Development |
35,000 |
216,000 (office) |
0 |
JBGCos/CG Investments |
33,000 |
220 hotel rooms |
246 |
2nd Baptist Church |
10,000 |
NA |
NA |
Miscellaneous |
58,000 |
NA |
NA |
TOTAL |
600,000 |
600,000 (off8ce) |
815 |
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Mount Vernon Triangle Stakeholders
Office of Planning
Andy Altman
Lara Belkind
Toni Griffin
Ellen McCarthy
Patricia Zingsheim
NCRC
Ted Carter
Jim Noteware
Ruth Uchiyama
MVT Alliance
CG Investments
Greg Fazakerley
Dweck Properties
Dan Schneider
Douglas Development
Douglas Jemal
The JBG Companies
Stewart Bartley
Matt Blocher
Quadrangle Development Corporation
Bob Gladstone
Steuart Investment Company
Guy Steuart III
The Wilkes Company
Sandy Wilkes
Trammell Crow Company
Bob Murphy
Ryan Wade
Other Significant Property Owners in the Triangle
Bible Way Church
Yvonne Williams, Chair of Board of Trustees
Bush Construction (Museum Square, Carmel Place Apts.)
Andy Viola
Lowe Team for Wax Museum Site
Marc Dubick, Lowe
Pam Bundy, Bundy Development
Adrian Washington, Neighborhood Development Company
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Pastor Joseph Norman Evans
National Public Radio (member of the Downtown BID)
Maury Schlesinger
Properties That Border the Triangle
Meridian at Gallery Place (Paradigm Development)
Stan Sloter
400 Mass Condominiums (Faison Development/Douglas Development)
Don Deutsch
Mass Court (Pritzker Realty)
Richard Boales
Alliance Staff
From Downtown BID
Rich Bradley
Gerry Widdicombe
Karen Sibert
Marketing Team
Carol Felix
Susan Morris
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Momentum in the Triangle
- Development is happening NOW!
- JBG/CG Investments’ Sovereign House Apartments---246 units
opening July, 2004
- JBG/CG Investments’ Hampton Court Hotel---220 rooms opening
December, 2004
- South side of Massachusetts Avenue has three new residential
buildings
- Meridian at Gallery Place—462 apartments opened October
2003 (Paradigm)
- Mass Court---371 apartments opened March 2004 (Pritzker)
- 400 Mass---257 condominiums now selling and opening July
2003 (Faison)
- NCRC is using the Wax Museum site to develop a catalytic project
- Grocery store—55,000 SF
- 54,000 of other neighborhood retail
- 623 residential units (476 condos and 202 apartments)
- 821 parking spaces
- Plan to break ground within 12 months of finalizing transaction
- Formation of the Mount Vernon Triangle Community Improvement
District to manage the Triangle’s public spaces and promote the
Triangle’s development.
- Services to start in late April or early May
- Initial focus on Safety, Homelessness, Marketing, Planning and
Cleaning
- Budget to grow from initial $150,000 per year to $600,000 as
Triangle develops
- Finalizing a Retail Zoning Overlay that focuses on the intersection
of 5th and K Streets:
- 14 foot clear spaces
- Frequent street level building entrances
- No curb cuts along 5th and K Streets
- Large window requirements
- Include an occupancy grace period so retail can come in when
demand is there
- Beginning transportation and streetscape design studies using $4.7
million in District appropriated capital funds.
- More development is coming SOON!
- Wilkes/Quadrangle partnership to break ground in 2004 on 90-unit
condo project at 4th and Massachusetts Avenue
- Trammell Crow is finalizing its land assemblage for I Street/4th
Street/Mass Avenue block
- Steuart Investments is heading to the Zoning Commission
proposing more commercial space AND more residential space
- 5th and Eye Street RFP should go out within 12 months
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