Alexandria Redevelopment Would Replace 66 Homes With 529-Unit Mixed-Use Project

Courtesy of Torti Gallas & Associates

Rendering for the redevelopment of the Samuel Madden Households web page in Alexandria

Plans filed with Alexandria reveal the city’s intention to incorporate hundreds of new affordable models as component of a blended-use community in north Old Town.

Builders system to redevelop the web page of the Samuel Madden Households to incorporate 529 units and floor-flooring retail and amenity house, in accordance to details shared with Bisnow.

Additional than half of the units would be very affordable and workforce housing. The new progress sits on 3.4 acres involving Henry and Patrick streets and would replace a cluster of 66 very affordable models composed of two- and a few-bed room townhouses.

The Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority is partnering with Fairstead, Mill Creek Household and The Communities Group on the task.

“The Samuel Madden Houses sit at a vital web-site in Northern Virginia,” Fairstead Advancement Director Noah Hale mentioned in a assertion. “It is a gateway to Alexandria, and just minutes absent from Amazon HQ2. It has the prospective to provide as an essential link in the neighborhood with combined-earnings housing, community open up area, and essential childcare and food stuff sources for the full neighborhood.”

A lot more than 50 percent of the units in the new development would be earnings limited, totaling a lot more than 260 residences. A portion would be reserved for those generating 30% to 60% of the place median earnings, and other people would be reserved for workforce housing, or individuals homes generating in between 60% and 80% AMI, according to the designs.

Many of the amenities in the creating will provide its reduced-earnings residents. The development associates have introduced on nonprofit Hopkins Household to function a 13K SF daycare and early understanding center. The strategies also contain a 500 SF foodstuff pantry.

That would leave an further 16K SF for street-degree retail, and a 10K SF general public park is planned for the website.

Mill Creek Household has focused in the latest decades on urban or city-adjacent homes with powerful development possible, Govt Controlling Director Sean Caldwell advised Bisnow in 2019.

Fairstead, a vertically built-in nationwide developer concentrated on sustainability and affordability, has an place of work in Bethesda.