Note that Evergreen Urban's Eric Jenkins is a Bloomingdale resident.
A Theater, Live-Work Units and Retail Proposed For Florida and Q
by UrbanTurf Staff
Another proposal has been laid out for a coveted seven-lot site at Florida Avenue and Q Streets NW that the city put out for bid this past summer.
Evergreen Urban recently outlined plans to UrbanTurf for a mixed-use project with retail, residential units (that would include live-work spaces for artists) as well as a theater. Forum Theater, which currently operates out of Silver Spring, has signed on to come to the space if the developer’s proposal is chosen by the city.
Evergreen Urban’s Eric Jenkins said that the proposal includes retail space that could house a restaurant and that Paul Ruppert, whose projects include The Passenger, Room 11 and Upshur Street Books, has expressed interest in the site.
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I really like this concept. A theater within close walking distance of Bloomingdale would be fantastic, and combined with prioritizing artist space is a nice twist from the usual mixed use condo + retail plans. Fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteA theater would be great and it's close enough to NoMa so that plenty of people would probably walk over and don't forget that movie theaters are supposed to be built nearby, on New York Ave., I think.
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