14th and U streets 'Arts District' blossoms into more
Washington’s neighboring Logan Circle and Dupont Circle areas are a stark contrast in business friendliness.
The Logan Circle Community Association (LCCA) and the area Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) spent the first part of the millennium railing against the initial liquor licensed establishments on 14th Street, N.W., extending between downtown to U Street. However, a neighborhood poll conducted by LCCA at the time indicating that residents longed for dining and drinking venues startled the group.
That eye-opener gradually modulated the group’s regulatory posture and influenced the closely connected Logan Circle ANC. This would estrange them from the firebrand fights fueled by the notorious Dupont Circle Citizens Association (DCCA) and the infamously lockstep attitude of the interchangeable Dupont ANC leadership of the time. Pitched battles over proposed citywide restrictions on music and dancing, and the neighborhood’s sidewalk patio applications, liquor license moratoriums, license renewals and just about every new business proposed continued unabated to the west.
Much has changed on 14th Street since those early days of an evolving presence of pioneering entertainment businesses — including both theater and arts establishments alongside a mere handful of bars and restaurants.
A tiny cluster of hospitality businesses were anchored by the newly remodeled Studio Theatre at 14th and P streets, along with the nearby Source Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre (since relocated to Penn Quarter), among others. Studio Theatre founder and former artistic director Joy Zinoman’s dynamic vision and commitment had as much to do with revitalizing the Logan Circle area as the watershed opening of the Whole Foods Market in December 2000. Additional nightlife venues, home furnishings stores, clothing boutiques and new residential unit housing developments would follow.
Long-time area residents, as well as those among the thousands of newer arrivals, joined the business community last year in pressing the District government to modify its zoning regulations and accommodate growth in the number of nightlife venues.
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In the 1980s, the city designated the still riot-scarred area that runs along 14th Street, NW, from N Street to Florida Avenue and U Street from 9th to 15th (along with sections of 9th, 7th, P and Q streets) as a unique “Uptown Arts Overlay District”
When we first came to DC and we lived in an apartment in Cleveland Park, my wife was able to commute to Georgetown U. and park within walking distance for free because the same zone wrapped around the back of the University.
I remember walking out of our apartment toward the elevator to go to work, running late as usual, and my neighbor ran out and said to me, "You have to come see, a plane just crashed into the Trade Center." I walked out the front door of the building
Rittenhouse St., 700 block, 8 pm Aug. 10 to 10 am Aug. 11. Property was stolen from a residence entered by forcing open a rear basement door. Tewkesbury Pl., 800 block, 1 to 7 pm Aug. 13. A residence was burglarized. U St., 1-99 block, 9:30 am to 4:15
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Washington, D.C.—United Dominion Realty Trust (UDR) has acquired View 14, a 185-unt mixed-use luxury community, for $104 million from a joint venture between Level 2 Development and Centrum Properties Inc.
MAC Realty Advisors and Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, and achieved what is being billed as the highest price per square foot paid for a stabilized luxury Class A apartment building in the Washington, D.C., market.
The condo-turned-rental community was built in 2009 and has the highest rents in the U Street submarket of Northwest Washington, D.C. Andrew McAllister, executive director of MAC, also arranged $92 million of senior debt, mezzanine, and equity financing for the construction of the project.
Newcastle buys 162-unit Chicago apartment for $33.3M
Chicago—Newcastle Limited has purchased 533 West Barry, a 162-unit, 17-story apartment community in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. The all-cash deal commanded a sales price of $33.3 million. The property was purchased on behalf of Newcastle’s $500 million Chicago real estate investment platform. CBRE’s Dan Cohen and John Jaeger represented the seller in the transaction.
“Opportunities like 533 W. Barry surface only rarely and we were pleased to have been able to acquire the property,” says Michael Haney, president and chief executive officer of Newcastle Limited. “The property’s location, parking and unit mix were all factors in our decision to purchase the property. Our planned improvements will further enhance its appeal to area renters.”
The property features a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. There is attached parking and easy access to public transportation, shopping, nightlife and the Lake Michigan. Newcastle is implementing an improvement plan to upgrade units, common areas and curb appeal over the next 36 months.
HFF closes sale of Tampa, Fla. asset to Camden
Tampa, Fla.–HFF closed the sale of The Estates at Tuscany Ridge, a 450-unit, Class A multi-housing community in Tampa, Fla., to Camden Property Trust.
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