2111 and 2121 Eisenhower Ave. may be demolished to make room for a large housing development.
Developers are looking at tearing down two low-rise, underused office buildings in a prime location in the Eisenhower neighborhood to build hundreds of new homes.
2121 and 2111 Eisenhower Ave. appear on the May 3 Planning Commission docket and the developer, Mid-Atlantic Realty Partners, is asking for increased density and height on the combined 1.9 acres to build 802 units of multi-family housing with six levels of parking.
The two buildings run the length of the block between Elizabeth Lane and Mill Road on the north side of Eisenhower Avenue. The area has been ripe for development, with Carlyle Crossing (including the new Wegmans store) opening nearby and plans to build on nearby empty lots. (See the development map here.)
City staff is recommending the project be approved with 44 committed, affordable housing units, ground-floor activation and requirements for "stormwater and bio-retention facilities to improve run-off over existing conditions."
The staff report details: "The building design incorporates two “L” shaped towers of varying height connected by a common parking podium. The parking podium will be encapsulated by residential units with individual entrances along Eisenhower Avenue and lobbies and amenity rooms for the multifamily towers on the east and west ends. Several private terraces will satisfy the development’s open space requirement, the largest of which will be located on level six. The project proposes enhanced streetscapes which will include wide sidewalks, a mid-block crossing for the new roadway, street-trees, benches, public lighting and bicycle racks."
