WASHINGTON, DC—LCOR is breaking ground on The Edison at Gateway Market, a development site acquisition it made in the city's Union Market District last summer. In a separate development the company picked up two parcels in the same submarket earlier this month for $14.3 million. It eventually plans to build those out as well, LCOR SVP Harmar Thompson tells GlobeSt.com.

Developable space is scarce in this up-and-coming part of town, he says.

"We were lucky to acquire the sites as most of the land in the Union Market District is spoken for," he says. "That doesn't mean they couldn't be assembled -- but it would be difficult."

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Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.