Anyone Know What’s Up With Building at 11th and T Streets, NW
19 March 2010 4:00 PM | By Prince Of Petworth in Buildings, Neighborhoods - Shaw
I don’t think this deserves a horse’s ass award at the moment because I think the building is looking rather nice. However, it has been in this state for a number of months. Do any nearby neighbors happen to know what’s going on?
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19 March 2010 4:34 PM | DG-rad Said:
I’d hate to give a horse’s ass award to a building that looks so great. curious as to the delay, though…
19 March 2010 4:47 PM | Anonymous Said:
I heard the architecture firm Zapata laid everyone off and went belly up. Maybe that’s the problem.
19 March 2010 5:20 PM | jburka Said:
Actually, I walk my dog past this building almost every day, and things are still slowly proceeding. Just this week they, whoever “they” are, have started installing a fence across the front yard and along 11th street. (you can actually see the fence in PoP’s photo above)
19 March 2010 6:36 PM | M Said:
Christian Zapatka Architect LLC – 11th and T Streets Condominiums, Shaw … from their web site
19 March 2010 8:32 PM | Scuttlebutt Said:
I went into this building a few months ago with one of subcontractors, who was working there. He told me that the contractor is either new or bad- the building was fully sheetrocked and then they learned they needed fire sprinklers, so they had to tear down a lot of the ceilings to install the sprinklers. Also, it’s apparently only two units- one unit in each wing- which seems like a very strange use of space.
Also not helping is the orange stop work sticker that went up yesterday, although I saw some work being done today. They might have gotten temporary approval to continue.
21 March 2010 4:51 PM | Anonymous Said:
2 units? say what?
what was there before? this looks gorgeous, but having just two units there seems really bizarre and, in my uneducated opinion, far more trouble than benefit.
22 March 2010 10:59 AM | EdTheRed Said:
It was a vacant lot for many years prior to this construction.
20 March 2010 6:25 AM | crin Said:
Not exact on the numbers, but they filed plans for a 2-unit building but tried to build 3-units, thus violating a bunch of the code and getting stopped.