D.C.

's first shipping container apartments coming to

Brookland
By Michael Neibauer
Matthew Grace along with Sean Joiner do their component to save lots of your planet, 1 transport
container apartment with a time.
Brookland Equity group LLC, led by simply Grace as well as Joiner, has been issued a permit Friday
in order to convert any single-family residence in 3305 Seventh St. NE in Brookland in to a three-
story, four-unit delivery container apartment building. The Actual demolition and groundwork permit
for the same project had been issued last month.
Per your D.C. zoning office, 4 feet in the exterior wall with the present house will be retained, as will
the cellar (where one apartment will probably be located). Presently there will be 3 floors associated
with transport container apartments, additionally a shipping container mechanical penthouse. There
are couple of of these, if any, within the District right now.
The designs had been drawn up through D.C.'s Travis Value Architects. in paperwork submitted to
the D.C.'s zoning administrator, the actual project objective had been described as making a "new,
bold, ecological, recyclable kit associated with parts housing module, and also to aid help make use
involving among America's biggest problems: Simply No exports involving items -- 700,000 (and
counting) sea containers left in our sea ports."
Gary Imhoff, one 50 % of the watchdog organization D.C. Watch, is actually none too pleased. He
wrote within the June 25 edition of his biweekly newsletter: "Prefab shipping container houses can
always be made to look wonderful within architect's plans. Thus may trailer parks. However I
suspect that will a couple of decades associated with put on will rapidly turn these people straight
into slums. This specific is the type of housing development, along with micro apartments, which our
area planners hope to stuff us in."
I would reason that shipping container apartments, such as micro units, are a welcome inclusion to
D.C.'s increasingly diverse housing stock. the more diversity within option along with affordability,
the actual stronger the particular community. However that's just me.
Other permits issued Friday.
1050 Connecticut Ave. NW, seventh floor: Interior
alteration involving 49,000 square feet of active
workplace with Washington Square. Lerner
Enterprises and the Tower Cos., co-developers
associated with Washington Square, announced
inside March that Mercer, the global consulting
firm, would lease 56,460 sq ft there, occupying the
actual seventh flooring in the 12-story workplace
property.
7701 Georgia Ave. NW: Rehab of your 46-unit, six-
story apartment building found 3 blocks south in
the Maryland/D.C. line. Perform will consist of
new plumbing fixtures, new HVAC units, upgraded
electrical and also modified layouts in the few
units.
1738 Connecticut Ave. NW, 1835 18th ST. NW:
Bistro Du Coin and also Lauriol Plaza,
respectively, will upgrade their particular present kitchen hood fire suppression techniques to
supply appropriate protection pertaining to cooking equipment. The Actual are employed in each
cases is actually getting completed by Guardian Fire Protection Services.
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