Park Triangle Retail
Update
Written by Columbia Heights News
Friday, July 07, 2006
Last week there was an interesting
Washington Post article about the Park Triangle Apartment
development in Columbia Heights, Park Triangle: Urban Bustle
With a View. Of note, the
article mentions the types of tenants that will be coming to
the ground level retail space: "Spaces have been leased
to a vegan bakery, a cellphone store, a chicken restaurant,
a bank and a credit union, as well as an insurance company.
There will also be a dry cleaner with automatic drop off
and pick up."
A few weeks ago, we received an email
from the Vice President of Triangle Ventures, Ernie Marcus. Mr. Marcus confirmed
that the following retailers have signed with Park Triangle:
- Citibank
- Oxxo Cleaners
- Pollo Campero
- T-Mobile
- Allstate
- Lafayette Federal Credit Union
Mr. Marcus also noted that a "bakery/café" was
very probable. This seems to be confirmed by the Post
article. Other retailers in negotiation include a bedding
store, Italian ice shop and a specialty sports and equipment
store.
The Post article also has some interesting
information on the triangular shaped public space in front
of the Park Triangle building.
"The city has just agreed to pay
for $4 million in improvements to the land adjacent to the
apartment building. For now, Triangle Ventures LLC, the company
that built Park Triangle, has installed large trees and stone
in the plaza at the triangle corner of 14th and Kenyon Streets
NW. When all the construction finishes, that will remain
as an open green space," said Ernie L. Marcus, a vice
president at Triangle Ventures. "A farmers market will
eventually make the square its home from June to Thanksgiving." |
