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Project: J Linea,
2009 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Architect: Hickok Cole
Interior Designer: RD Jones + Associates
Structural Engineer: Structura
MEP Engineer: Metropolitan Engineering, Inc.
Civil Engineer/Landscape Architect: Bohler Engineering
General Contractor: CBG Building Company

All the Right Angles
All the Right Angles

J Linea Stands Respectfully behind

an Existing Commercial Façade

by Ronald O’Rourke

J Linea apartments, with the restored historic commercial building at right. All photos © Mary Parker Photography, except as noted

At the northern end of Washington’s Shaw neighborhood, Located on 8th Street, NW, between Florida Avenue and
Hickok Cole—the designer of many new apartment and V Street, the project is called J Linea, with the J referring to
condominium buildings in the city—has carefully inserted an Jefferson Apartment Group (the project’s owner and developer),
angular new apartment and retail structure behind the façade and Linea referring to the building’s angular lines. With eight
of a century-old commercial building. The mixed-use residential above-grade floors (including a penthouse level) plus a basement
project showcases the historic façade while articulating and parking and storage level, the project offers 132 apartments
reducing the apparent size of the residential tower that rises and 16,000 square feet of retail space. The apartment building’s
above it. interior spaces were designed by RD Jones + Associates, an

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