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H Street NE is getting a bookstore
A 4,300-square-foot bookstore is coming to the H Street NE corridor courtesy of two longtime Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe employees. According to The Washington Post, Solid State Books will open this fall in The Apollo development, which is already home to H Street’s Whole Foods Market. Jake Cumsky-Whitlock, the former head buyer at Kramerbooks, and…
Read MoreBuchanan Park brings 32 new townhouses (some with elevators) to Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill’s Federal-style row-houses are highly prized, particularly among people who also work on the Hill or in nearby offices, but they also typically require extensive renovation to match the lifestyle of modern families. New townhouses are a rarity in this part of town, so the conversion of the 2.13-acre site surrounding the former Buchanan…
Read MoreCapitol Hill: First New Luxury Townhomes in a Decade Now Showing on Capitol Hill
Federal Capital Partners® (FCP) and Insight Property Group (Insight) are proud to announce the grand opening of Buchanan Park, one of the most luxurious and distinctive new home communities to be created on Capitol Hill in a decade. Buchanan Park townhomes have been crafted to embrace the surrounding community by using enduring materials and by…
Read MoreA Look Inside the Best New Apartments In and Outside of DC
This comes from Washingtonian’s annual Best of Washington list. In DC: The Apollo It’s rare that a rental building is as meticulously designed as this, so it’s hard to know where to look first. Maybe at the glimmering, emerald-green-tiled elevator bank? The Deco-inspired mosaic floor? Or the golden, lightsaber-esque chandelier? The 431 apartments in the…
Read MoreWeWork Opening Build-To-Suit, 32K SF Space On H Street This Summer
WeWork is preparing to open its first Northeast DC location on the H Street corridor. The co-working provider inked a deal with Insight Property Group to open a 32K SF space at 810 7th St. NE, adjacent to The Apollo apartment building. WeWork is already promoting the space on its website and plans to open…
Read MoreBuchanan Park: Creating a new Capitol Hill neighborhood around — and in — an old D.C. school
A team of three developers is nearing completion of the first phase of Buchanan Park, a Hill East project that will install new condos inside a century-old school and townhouses on the property. It represents an important step forward for the 1300 block of D Street SE that was in need of a boost when…
Read MorePopular Philadelphia Vegan Restaurant Opening First DC Location In The Apollo
Shoppers seeking healthy organic food have been flocking to H Street since the opening of the new Whole Foods in Insight Property Group’s apartment building last month, and now the landlord has signed a new tenant sure to appeal to that same market. The chefs who created one of the most popular vegan restaurants in the…
Read MoreThe chefs behind the best vegan food in the country are opening a restaurant in D.C.
The chefs of Philadelphia’s much-lauded vegan restaurant, Vedge, are officially coming to Washington. Husband and wife team Richard Landau and Kate Jacoby are behind the most well-known meatless restaurant in the country and have a half-dozen James Beard Award semifinalist and nominee nods to their names. For years, they’ve talked about opening up shop in the nation’s capital.…
Read MoreWhole Foods is opening along H Street NE next month
The Whole Foods store along the busy H Street NE corridor will open March 15, the Austin-based chain announced Tuesday. The 40,000-square-foot store in the 600 block of H Street NE replaces Murry’s, the neighborhood’s longtime — and cheaper — grocery store. Murry’s closed in 2014 to make way for a new mixed development with high-end…
Read MoreInside The Apollo: H Street’s New 431-Unit Apartment Building
Residents began moving into Insight Property Group’s 431-unit The Apollo apartment building on H Street this month. They still have some time before they can begin shopping at the Whole Foods anchoring the development, but the building’s early birds are already enjoying the unique design and amenities of the latest major apartment project to come to the…
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