Multifamily buildings proposed for Alexandria’s West End
Two apartment projects are in the works for Alexandria’s West End.
The Bozzuto development company is planning a seven-story, 402-unit apartment building at 4880 Mark Center Drive adjacent to the Winkler Botanical Preserve.
The project would include five to 10 affordable units, two courtyards, and a parking garage, land use attorney Cathy Puskar of Walsh Collucci told the City of Alexandria’s Beauregard Design Advisory Committee earlier this week.
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Monday Properties is planning to replace a three-story medical office building at 1900 N. Beauregard St. with an apartment building with 345 units, including about 15 affordable units.
It would be designed to look like three separate buildings rather than a monolithic structure. There would be a six-story garage in the center below a courtyard, said land use attorney Kenneth Wire of Wire Gill. The plan includes some two-story units on the ground floor facing Beauregard Street.
Wire hopes the city could hold a hearing on the proposal in the first quarter of 2025. Construction could start as early as the first quarter of 2026.
Monday Properties also owns several other nearby parcels but won’t redevelopment them until the current tenants’ leases expire in five to eight years.
When will the taxpayers realize these developments cost them? How so?
School’s enrollment skyrockets requiring more teachers , increasing police and fire personnel, leading to their pensions needing funding, hospitals, and that’s a small tip of the iceberg. But the development company makes money off of your back.
It literally does not……you should actually do some research on the matter. You’d find denser higher capacity developments result in net tax gains for localities. The only thing holding the locality back and costing taxpayers money is the single family homes…..
Well, there is the issue that the schools are too dense right now. That the County will support a development like this but not build new schools (which has been needed for a while). The overpopulation of high density housing (apartments, condos, and townhomes) with the corresponding schools, roads, etc is atrocious.
Look at the parks and trails now compared to 10 years ago and they are littered with trash, crowded, and the streams treated like public pools. These same streams are often filled with toxic level of sewage and fecal matter than can go untreated for long periods of time.
Apartments do not increase the net tax revenue. Did you notice all the Maryland plates all over Virginia? (But oddly not alot of Virginia plates all over Maryland…) Residents will live in Virginia and keep their vehicles licensed in MD. They is so common it is crazy. Too avoid the taxes of personal property but avail themselves to our cheaper income taxes.
If the tax revenue is increasing as you say, then we are not spending the money effectively on schools, police, fire, and general clean up. Soon, our area will be population dense and resource poor. Ask Arlington how that is working out for them with their daily shootings in nice areas.
Love this! More modern development is gradually moving westward to Annadale and Lincolnia. We need new housing and development!
I wouldn’t expect the same to happen in Fairfax County near Annandale or Lincolnia. You need to move out to Tysons to live in these type of developments.
Why do we assume the medical office building is fully occupied and Drs will be displaced? What gets me is how it seems like the developer is doing the community a favor by offering 10 affordable units in an approximately 400 unit project.
I hope those properties are constructed in a more sensible way- with windows that open; wider garages to allow two-way traffic without cars having to back up or pull into a space to slow the other car to pass. This is the case at the newest Monday property- The Blake Alexandria, located at Beauregard & Seminary.
Hopefully the garages will have a better design and the windows will open, unlike Monday Property’s at Beauregard & Seminary- The Blake Alexandria.
That doesn’t make any sense. Why would you get rid of medical offices that are needed for housing?
This area is insane now, thanks Justin. The density is making it miserable to live here. Home sales are down 23% since last year in the city so lets remove DOCTORS and put in more density, what are we at 15,000 a square mile like Queens? We need to make that money some how right?
Free buses, free guaranteed income, free housing, free food, everyone come here right now!
hmmmm why is crime up? Let’s keep THAT out of the local news.