Date Built:  Under Construction

To Begin:   January 2009

Developer:   Public Private Alliances, LLC

Architect:   Davis, Carter Scott Ltd.

Just the Facts

Type of Project

• Mixed use civic building
• Residential Building

Mix use civic building on Main Street Site

• 33 rental apartments
• 6 stories with 3 allocated for community center uses
• 40,000 square-foot community center, including gymnasium
• 3,000 square-feet ground-floor retail
• LEED Silver Certified rating, including a vegetated roof above portions of the gymnasium

Residential building on the Avenue Site

• 159 units in a mix of studio 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units
• 61 units of affordable housing, including 10 units available to the Department of Human Services Supportive Housing Program
• 5 stories
• The main building entry located along Dinwiddie Street
• Additional building entries to individual ground floor units along Dinwiddie Street
• Earthcraft certified rating, an alternative green-building rating system to LEED used by the Virginia Housing Development Authority

Additional Proposed Site Improvements

• A new public plaza with frontage on Columbia
• A new street connection between Dinwiddie Street and Arlington Mill Drive
• An underground parking garage
• Bicycle parking
• Single, shared loading dock/service area

  Parking:

• 3 levels underground with a total of 322 spaces including:
  • 130 visitor spaces
  • 192 reserved residential spaces
• 17 street spaces including: 4 new spaces on Columbia Pike & 13 spaces along Dinwiddie Street

Location

• Bordered by Columbia Pike to the south, South Dinwiddie Street to the west, and Arlington mill Drive to the east

Project Features

• Provides 61 affordable housing rental units
• 192 multi-family units

Community Benefits

• Creates a new and substantially larger Community Center
• Meets the five overall goals established for the project
  • Design
  • Sensitive to Four Mile Run
  • Form Based Code compliant
  • Offers efficient & safe Pedestrian and Vehicular Circulation
  • LEEDs Certified
• Expands County’s housing supply, affordable housing supply
• Revitalizes portion of Columbi
• Provides over 14,000 sq ft, multi-tiered, multi-use public plaza with the ability to expand events directly into the approximate 9,000 sq ft gymnasium and includes a tot-lot play area.