The City Council on Saturday June 15 approved a beautiful new residential tower for block 19 in the Eisenhower East area just outside our Carlyle neighborhood near the old ATA building. This will be a LEED certified building that will have 30-32 affordable housing units. This will be the third Paradigm building with Meridian in the name in the Carlyle/Eisenhower East neighborhood.
For more information about the project, visit this link. To see staff’s presentation to the City Council, visit this link (PDF).
Above is a rendition of how the project will look from Carlyle.
Here a diagram looking over head at the project:
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Isn’t this location where they talked about the Hoffman Towers, rising to 33 stories?
Wonder what happened to that one.
Hi Jay – the 33 story complex will be going in eventually in South Carlyle near where Holland Lane and Eisenhower Ave meet.
I guess I’m confused. I talked with Planning and they said the Hoffman Towers are going up in between metro and the Park Meridian. A couple of years ago it got a lot of buzz at the DC Mud blog, saying it would be one of the tallest buildings in the area.
Love your blog by the way!!
Hi Jay – Thanks for reading and thank you for those kind words about the blog. Tell your friends! I covered the 33 story complex on Eisenhower Avenue back in 2008 here at this link. http://redbricktown.com/2008/08/21/33-story-tower-coming-to-carlyle-jm-zell-hopes-so/ Let me see if I can give you a brief history. The City threatened to take property from Charles Hooff (also covered here on this blog – http://redbricktown.com/?s=charles+hooff&submit=Search) through eminent domain for the express purposes of expanding the Sanitation authority (ASA) as the ASA is required to expand to get rid of more pollutants (nitrogen I think) before water is returned to the river… Read more »
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