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Rendering of 1336 8th Street, NW,
as seen from O Street, NW.

Rendering © Shalom Baranes Associates Rendering © Shalom Baranes Associates

and Associates are now designing a seven-story mixed-use building survey began—PGN Architects is designing a new seven-story
with 118 rental apartments and 8,000 square feet of neighborhood- mixed-use building that at last report is to include 59 to 79
serving retail. Most of the apartments are to be family-sized, and residential units and 7,420 square feet of retail space. The site
30% are to be set aside as affordable units. A rendering of the faces Ellington Plaza, with its lively statue of Duke Ellington,
design concept shows a horizontally oriented rectangular building and is across Wiltberger Street from the Howard Theatre, an
cantilevered over a smaller base, somewhat like the Atlantic important local landmark.
Plumbing buildings a few blocks further north, but with detailing PGN’s project will incorporate four small existing brick buildings
that is less industrial and more sleekly modern. The site will also at 608-618 T Street along its front, creating a challenge of
include a public park. developing a design for the new, taller part of the building that
A bit further north, at the intersection of T and Wiltberger doesn’t overwhelm or humiliate the four existing structures.
streets, NW—not far from the Atlantic Plumbing site where this PGN has responded with a scheme that sets the project’s new

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