The Latest on Jim Abdo’s Catholic U. Development
In May 2008, Catholic University announced that it was partnering with Abdo Development to redevelop a nine acre site near the Brookland/CUA Metro station on Michigan Avenue.
Now the Washington Post is reporting that Abdo's plans will likely sail through the Zoning Commission process.
The development proposal "calls for building 825 residential units and 85,000 square feet of retail on nine acres of university-owned land along Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street," according to the Post. (The development is shown in an older rendering above—I'm trying to get some new ones.)
All told, Abdo says his project will probably take around eight years.
6:21 pm
Please do something forward thinking with the architecture already. Enough boring interpretations of historic motifs. I put a school of architecture at CUA for a reason. Use it, talk to them! So far Mr. Abdo your choices have been pretty bad. Logan Circle is still reeling from that mess you built on the circle. Jesus, Mary and I would have preferred it had been left as a butterfly garden.
Go visit Falling Water, no more cliches! That is a direct order from me, you are on my home turf now!
7:17 pm
@God,
You'd need to smite the Zoning Board, HPRB, and the ANCs, which all add their input into the design process. Design by committee doesn't make for intelligent design. (see what I did there?)
8:47 am
Good luck finding the funding.
9:02 am
When is it supposed to break ground? 2 or 3 years from now?
10:47 am
I don't believe in God, but do generally support and like what Abdo has done around the city. If I could afford to live in an Abdo-redeveloped property, I would! Why does architecture always have to "forward thinking"? I prefer the past, architecturally, and so do a lot of people. The Logan Circle project turned out just fine, and would not be better as a "butterfly garden". That's completely ridiculous!