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Two Developers Chosen for Sursum Corda Project

Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post
IN THE COMING YEARS, the identical rooftops of the Sursum Corda cooperative and the adjacent Temple Courts public housing project off of North Capitol Street will look a lot different. Mixed-use, higher-density development is slated for the area.

And now we know who'll be making those changes. On Thursday, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that William C. Smith & Co. and the Jair Lynch Cos. would lead the redevelopment of the site.

Here's what they'll be building, according to The Post's Joshua Zumbrun:

The project, called Northwest One, will have 40,000 square feet of retail space, 220,000 square feet of office space and a 21,000-square-foot health clinic, a new facility for Unity Health Clinic, which operates in the area. The partnership has agreed to increase the number of affordable housing units in the proposal from 410 to 571.
The redevelopment of the site has been controversial because of opposition by some residents who didn't want to leave their homes to make way for the project.

The Northwest One site sits about 10 blocks north of the Capitol, between Union Station, the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University Metrorail station and the Shaw and Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhoods, where many redevelopment projects have taken shape in recent years.

» "Partnership Is Chosen for Redevelopment" [WaPo]
» EARLIER: "Residents Try to Rescue D.C. Co-Op" [WaPo]

Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post

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