CityCenterDC
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Site under construction (August 2011)
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| Location | Washington, D.C. |
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| Status | Completed (Phase I) |
| Groundbreaking | 2011 |
| Estimated completion | 2015; hotel opens in 2019 |
| Website | citycenterdc |
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| Developer | Hines Archstone |
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| Cost | US$950,000,000 |
| Buildings | 6 |
| Size | 10.2 acres (4.1 ha) |
| Leasable area | 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) |
CityCenterDC is a mixed-use development consisting of two condominium buildings, two rental apartment buildings, two office buildings, a planned luxury hotel, and public park in downtown Washington, D.C.. It encompasses 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) and covers more than five city blocks. The $950 million development began construction on April 4, 2011, on the site of the former Washington Convention Center—a 10.2-acre (4.1 ha) site bounded by New York Avenue NW, 9th Street NW, H Street NW, and 11th Street NW. Most of the development was completed and open for business by summer 2015; the luxury hotel is under construction and expected to open in 2019.
The development is one of the largest downtown projects in the United States, and the largest urban development on the East Coast of the United States. It has been described as "a modern-day Rockefeller Center" by Hector Falconer at the New York Times.Washington Post architectural critic Steven Pearlstein, writing in 2003, said the project will "reshape" downtown D.C.
The D.C. deputy mayor for economic development characterized the project in 2004 as "the capstone of an effort to move the center of energy from the Mall to downtown".D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said in 2005 it was "the crowning achievement in the rebirth of our downtown". In 2007, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty called the development a "live, work and play environment unlike anywhere else in D.C."
The Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.'s second convention center, opened on December 10, 1982. But just eight years later, the facility's small size and a nationwide boom in the construction of convention centers had caused the 285,000-square-foot (26,500 m2) convention center to see a dramatic drop in business. In May 1990, the city unveiled plans for a new $685 million, 2,300,000-square-foot (210,000 m2) convention center. Ground was broken for the new Walter E. Washington Convention Center on October 2, 1998.
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