WASHINGTON, DC-In advance of its meeting on Thursday before the District's Historic Preservation Office, the latest plan advanced by the developers of the 25-acre McMillan redevelopment project recently garnered some favorable comments from the agency's staff.
“For the first time, it looks like a destination you would want to seek out to experience its distinct sense of place; one that includes equally interesting historic and new features balanced and blended compatibly together,” HPO staff wrote of the latest plan from Vision McMillan Partners, according to the Washington Business Journal.
The proposed McMillan redevelopment calls for a community center and park, the Olmstead Walk, 161 rowhouses to be developed by EYA, a grocery store-anchored mixed-use building from Jair Lynch Development Partners and two medical office buildings from Trammell Crow Co. The decommissioned water treatment plant at the site was designated a historic landmark in the early 1990s.
The Historic Preservation staff in its report also noted that the revised plan is “dramatically improved, reflecting the high level of quality, cohesiveness and distinctiveness that have been sought by the Board.” It goes on to say that it represents an “architecturally cohesive, high-quality and site specific series of projects that relate to the character of the landmark.” See story in the Washington Business Journal.
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