
Still, planning is still embryonic. And given that the project isn’t likely to begin construction until at least 2012 – not to mention the belt-tightening state of the economy – is seems reasonable to wonder where and when the first of Hoffman-Streuver’s cash will be spent. “The next two years will be focused on completing the design of the project, working with the community, and submitting for the PUD,” says Seaman. “We are confident that the capital market will have improved by the time we are ready to put a shovel in the ground.”
Back in September, Elinor Bacon from ER Bacon Development, one of the development partners of the Southwest Waterfront, said at a SWNA meeting that construction would begin on phase one in 2011. From the DCMud post, it sounds like that date has been pushed back to 2012...
(The above photo is the Maine Avenue corridor taken in October 2008.)
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Please see the remarks by At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown on the SW Waterfront disposition resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQP4Eeqxk-k&feature=channel_page
A press release can be found using the following link:
http://www.kwamebrownatlarge.com/Site/SW_Waterfront.html
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