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Robinson Terminal North warehouse at North Union and Pendleton streets in Old Town.
Rooney Properties, which owns Robinson Terminal North in Old Town, has submitted plans to tear down an old warehouse and replace it and the space across the street with mixed-use residential buildings and a park.
AlexRenew demolished the Robinson Terminal North building on the east side of North Union Street as part of its much larger plans to improve Alexandria’s sewer and stormwater infrastructure — RiverRenew. A second warehouse on the west side of the street is still standing — a large, green, corrugated steel building at the corner of North Union and Pendleton streets.
AlexRenew is in the process of constructing a diversion facility on the east side (the river side) of North Union Street, which will "direct millions of gallons of combined sewage into the new tunnel system for conveyance to AlexRenew's water resource recovery facility," AlexRenew explained in 2020.
Rooney Properties is interested in building mixed-use retail, residential and more above the diversion facility and in the surrounding area. (Learn more about the RiverRenew project at the end of Pendleton Street here.)
Rooney Properties (based in Arlington) and CityInterests (based in Washington, D.C.) had approval from Alexandria city officials to construct a mixed-use development there back in 2015, Washington Business Journal reported. Those plans paused and changed multiple times over the ensuing years. Until about 2013, the warehouse space was used in part by The Washington Post.
Now, Rooney Properties — without CityInterests — is proposing a multifamily development with ground-floor retail and at least one restaurant, WBJ reported.
The Rooney Properties website says only that the property will be available in 2025.
