Reunion Square Update 07/20/21

Construction Kicks Off for Reunion Square

Mayor Bowser and the project team have officially broken ground at Reunion Square. The mixed-use project will feature 134 units of senior affordable housing, affordable retail and office space for Ward 8 businesses, a hotel, and the DC Health headquarters. In 2020, Mayor Bowser, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, and DMPED collaborated to move emergency legislation, which authorized $25 million in bonds to enable the project, located at an underutilized site near the Anacostia Metrorail Station, to move ahead. The 1.5 million-square-foot development is adjacent to Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Shannon Place, Railroad Avenue, V Street, and W Street, SE in Anacostia.
 
Tax Increment Financing is a program through which the District provides funding for economic development projects by borrowing against future tax receipts that will be generated by the project. Other development projects in the District that have utilized TIFs include the Skyland Town Center in Ward 7 and the redevelopment of The Wharf along the Southwest Waterfront and City Market at O Street in Ward 6.
 
“The Four Points, Curtis Investment Group and Blue Sky Housing team is very excited about this next phase of the Reunion Square development plan, which in addition to the 231,000 SF headquarters building for the Department of Health, will also include a 115-120 key hotel with 38,000 SF of ancillary office space, approximately 29,000 SF of neighborhood serving local retail, and a 134 unit senior affordable building. The office, hotel and residential buildings are a vital component of the larger, eight (8) acre redevelopment plan which includes approximately 1.5 million SF of mixed-use development approved for the property,” said John Gerber, CEO, Four Points. “The Reunion Square project will bring dramatic economic development and added vibrancy to the Historic Anacostia neighborhood of Ward 8 and leverage investments already made or planned by the District of Columbia. It is an important next step in the redevelopment of the property into a dynamic, mixed-use urban center.  Our team would like to thank Mayor Bowser, Councilmember White and the City Council for their tremendous support of the Reunion Square development in the form of the Reunion Square TIF and the selection of our site for the Department of Health Headquarters.”

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