Regional grocery chain Wegmans has some intense fans, who’ve been thrilled with the store’s forthcoming debut in D.C. at what was once the headquarters of Fannie Mae. Now, there’s a name for the development on 3900 Wisconsin Ave. Northwest where the grocer will call home — City Ridge — and a quickly approaching date for the groundbreaking: Dec. 1.
Roadside Development, which is helming the project, calls City Ridge an “urban village” with a total of eight new buildings alongside the original Fannie Mae headquarters. In addition to the Wegmans, the development will have 652 residential units (including approximately 55 units of affordable housing), 153,000 square feet of retail space, 62,000 square feet of office space, a 150-room hotel, a health club, and a cultural arts venue on the front lawn, according to Roadside Development founding partner Richard Lake.
“The front lawn has been closed off to the neighborhood since 1956,” says Lake. “We’re going to bring it back into the fabric of Wisconsin Ave.”
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