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Rendering of 1336 8th Street, NW.

121-unit residential project consisting of two buildings linked by mixed-use building, to be called the Residences at City Market,
a pedestrian bridge crossing over the alley. One of the buildings that is to include 80 residential units, 1,240 square feet for a local
would be created by restoring and adding to a historic garage, church, and 6,740 square feet for other uses, including a potential
while the other would be entirely new. The apartments are to be space for a restaurant. Excluding six residential units that are to be
fully furnished micro-units of about 400 square feet each. The included in townhouses along 8th Street, 30% of the residences are
project also includes a 940-square-foot retail space. Renderings to be set aside as affordable units. The project is near the large City
of the design concept, which has been undergoing review, show Market at O development for which SBA did the master plan and
buildings clad in brick and metal paneling, with orderly arrays of the designs of several buildings.
crisply punched windows. Several blocks further north, back at the intersection of 7th
For a city-owned site a few blocks north, at 1336 8th Street, and R streets and Rhode Island Avenue, NW, is Parcel 42, a long-
Shalom Baranes Architects is designing a LEED Gold-certified vacant city-owned site for which Dep Designs and R. McGhee

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