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Lounge just off the reception area.

Inside
Inside All photos © Eric Laignel

Madison Marquette’s
Madison Marquette’s

Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone

Developer’s Offices Play Off the Firm’s Expertise

by Celia Carnes

From Madison Marquette’s new offices at the Wharf, it’s easy The space is designed to accommodate visitors and clients,
to get swept up in the view—and that’s just what the firm but also to immerse employees within “a good example of
intended. From the Wharf’s waterfront, one can see boats what we do well,” according to Peter Cole, Madison Marquette
bobbing, gulls diving, and, across the water, the lush green principal and chief development officer, who was responsible
landscape of East Potomac Golf Course and Hains Point for delivering the new headquarters. Madison Marquette has
Park. “There aren’t many opportunities in DC to be right on a built a national reputation for hospitality-driven commercial
waterway like that,” so it was essential for the firm’s workplace real estate projects, and with the Wharf development, the firm
to celebrate its location, explained lead project technical rewrote the story of southwest DC, transforming the area
coordinator David Cordell, ASID, NCIDQ, LEED AP, WELL from a hodgepodge of open-air fish markets and mid-century
AP of Perkins&Will. housing into a hub for entertainment, recreation, and retail. The
Madison Marquette’s new headquarters, located within Wharf has been open less than five years, but its atmosphere,
one of the development’s premier commercial office buildings, walkability, transportation links, and roster of top-tier tenants
capitalizes on the unique setting of the Wharf and offers the have quickly established it as a popular District destination.
firm the opportunity to advertise its experience in placemaking.
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