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901 H St NE The " Avec on H ," a new multifamily residential building on H Street NE, just hit a major milestone. DC can sometimes seem like a city of cranes. Well, now the Avec (I... I... just can't call it that. I'm calling it 901 H St) has a crane of its own. The excavation isn't quite done, but most major digging is over and some of the concrete basin and lower floors are already starting to take shape. We now have some of the final numbers for the project: 419 apartment units for rent 44,300 square feet of residential space 430 parking spaces 901 H makes three 300+ unit residential buildings between 6th & 10th Streets NE. Anthology (625 H St NE) has 307 rental units and the Apollo (600 H St NE) has a whopping 430 rental units. Further away, 501 H St NE will have 28 rental units and the Constellation on H (1402 H St NE; formerly identified as 1401 Florida) will also come in with 28 condo units. 501 H St NE "Constellation o...

Now closed H Street Connection shopping center, bottom left. The Washington Business Journal recently reported that raze permits have been issued for H Street Connection at 801 H Street NE. The now closed strip mall was two blocks long (8th-10th Street) and housed 37,911 sq ft of retail stores including Bank of America, McDonalds, Rent-a-Center, 7-11, Subway, Rainbow, Sports Zone, Game Stop, and anchor tenant Rite Aid. H Street Connection opened in 1987. It is set to be replaced by a residential building with ground floor retail. Rappaport is the main developer and they are planing to build an eight story, 419 unit building with 469 parking spaces (below grade and surface). The ground floor will be comprised of 44,700 sq ft of retail that renderings indicate could include up to 11 separate businesses. At this time, the development is just known as 901 H Street. Construction should begin soon after razing and the building is scheduled to deliver in 2019. Looking west fr...