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Community Three Breaks Ground on $45M MXU Development in D.C.
Developer Community Three has broken ground on a $45 million mixed-use redevelopment of the historic Grimke School in Washington D.C., including a new home for the African American Civil War Museum.
Located on 9½ Street, near the intersection of U Street and Vermont Avenue in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood, The 133,000 square foot project will include multifamily residential, office space, live-work “maker” units and ground-floor retail.
The project’s first phase, scheduled to deliver in the Fall of 2020, includes the adaptive reuse of the 132-year-old Grimke School to include about 65,000 square feet of loft-style office and cultural arts space that will house the Museum’s 12,000-square-foot permanent home. Also delivering next fall will be a new six-story condominium building, The Fold, to be constructed in the former school parking lot.
Phase Two of the project, scheduled to break ground in 2021-22, will transform the Grimke School’s 1920s-era gymnasium into an assemblage of 40 modern residences, six of which will be “maker” studios with ground-level storefronts along 9½ Street.
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