Planned amenities include a DVD-projection theater and a rooftop pool.
Construction and sales begin in late spring: Abdo expects units to go for $600 per square foot; the smallest, a 750-square-foot condo, would fetch $450,000.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Washingtonian Features H Street in "Great Places to Live"
I missed it on the newsstand, but apparently The Washingtonian talked H Street up in its March "Great Place to Live Issue." The H Street discussion showed up in a section called "Buzz City: Neighborhoods for singles on the move." Here's the article. And here's a sneak peak (they're talking about the Abdo condos):
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And another reason it's a great place to live:
BP battle ends in development
As neighborhood battles go, the BP gas-station affair was a lulu.
Enter a large international energy company, British Petroleum (BP), focused on the western end of a famous near-Hill shopping strip, H Street N.E., five years ago. The company had big plans, buying a group of town houses in order to tear them down and build a totally modern fuel outlet for motorists, with more pumps than any other in the city, plus a food store with electronic bells and whistles.
At first, the community was a bit dazed. BP already had a small station at the site. But gradually, opposition grew and local political organizations, such as the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, the Stanton Park Neighborhood Association and the H Street merchants group, become involved and took sides.
BP officials tried to accommodate the gripes — mainly that the modernistic design was out of tune with the 100-year-old row-house milieu and the station too large. The company reduced the size and changed the outline. Roadblock after roadblock on a route stretching back to 2001 dismayed BP officials. A mediator was brought in, but he, too, produced no forward progress, and BP put its plan on hold.
But today, almost five years after the fuel company announced its plan, the BP station is dead as an idea, the row houses are razed and the site is empty. There will be no gas station there, and landowner Stuart Investments has moved the underground tanks.
Rumors are rife that Stuart, which has bought out the BP lease, is now thinking of a big mixed development with an upscale grocery store as an anchor, with retail and apartments a possibility.
Activist/neighbors such as Pat Lally, who fought the gas station, couldn’t be happier. “There is a lot going on on H Street,” he said last week.
Shouldn't Hillscape's writer Duncan Spencer get the credit for the above very fine writing?
Yes, I was thrilled with the news and missed the very important credit - sorry Duncan! I love you Duncan, and your wonderful weekly "Hillscape"! Everyone, you are missing out if you don't read Duncan's weekly, well researched, well written piece at www.hillnews.com
OK, so read Duncan's Hillscape. Tell me this, if anyone knows, after the employment center in the 600 block of H street moves in 2007, what will appear in its place? Any guesses, anyone?
Hopefully no one will. That ugly building should come down.
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