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Southwest (Washington, D.C.) Coordinates: 38.881228°N 77.01622°W. Color-enhanced USGS satellite image of Washington, D.C., with the crosshairs in the image marking the quadrant divisions of Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol at the center of the dividing lines. To the west of the Capitol is the National Mall, visible as a slight green ...
- Southwest Waterfront
The Southwest Waterfront is a neighborhood in Southwest...
- Quadrants of Washington, D.C
Quadrants of Washington, D.C. Color-enhanced USGS satellite...
- Southwest Waterfront
The circle was built upon an overlook where the African American surveyor, also a self-taught astronomer and mathematician, made calculations to determine Washington, DC’s future boundaries. The historic Municipal Fish Market is still the center of waterfront commerce in the nation’s capital, as it has been since before the Civil War.
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Technical details. Cost. $3.6 Billion. Size. 24 acres (9.7 ha) The District Wharf, commonly known simply as The Wharf, is a multi-billion dollar mixed-use development on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. It contains the city's historic Maine Avenue Fish Market, hotels, residential buildings, restaurants, shops, parks, piers, docks ...
- 2014
- Completed
- 2017 (first phase); 2022 (final phase)
- Washington, D.C.
Southwest’s Buzzard Point area is newly home to a 20,000-seat soccer stadium and PEPCO’s largest substation in the city. The mile-long waterfront is undergoing a $2 billion redevelopment that includes 3 million square feet of residential, retail, office, and hotel space.
At a traumatic time in the history of Southwest DC, approximately 23,000 residents and 1,500 businesses were displaced to make way for the redevelopment. With the large-scale urban renewal redevelopments of the 1970s, Southwest is now known for its distinctive mid-century modern architecture. Image Credit: Myers, D. (1939, July).
