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Kelvin Apartments/Envy Condos

Residential project with 440 units and up to 70,000 square feet of retail
Monument Realty originally planned large mixed-use project; only 55 M Street completed
Purchased in Sept. 2014 by MacFarlane Partners/Jair Lynch joint venture
First phase, The Kelvin, 1250 Half St. SE, 310 apartments & 55,000 sf retail, could open late '19
Second phase, Envy Condos, 70 N St. SE, 127 units plus ground floor retail, coming in 2020
Announced Retail: Punch Bowl Social

In the Pipeline
25 M
Yards/Parcel I
Chiller Site Condos
Yards/Parcel A
1333 M St.
More Capper Apts.
Yards/DC Water site
New Marine Barracks
Nat'l Community Church
Factory 202/Yards
SC1100
Completed
Thompson Hotel ('20)
West Half ('19)
Novel South Capitol ('19)
Yards/Guild Apts. ('19)
Capper/The Harlow ('19)
New DC Water HQ ('19)
Yards/Bower Condos ('19)
Virginia Ave. Tunnel ('19)
99 M ('18)
Agora ('18)
1221 Van ('18)
District Winery ('17)
Insignia on M ('17)
F1rst/Residence Inn ('17)
One Hill South ('17)
Homewood Suites ('16)
ORE 82 ('16)
The Bixby ('16)
Dock 79 ('16)
Community Center ('16)
The Brig ('16)
Park Chelsea ('16)
Yards/Arris ('16)
Hampton Inn ('15)
Southeast Blvd. ('15)
11th St. Bridges ('15)
Parc Riverside ('14)
Twelve12/Yards ('14)
Lumber Shed ('13)
Boilermaker Shops ('13)
Camden South Cap. ('13)
Canal Park ('12)
Capitol Quarter ('12)
225 Virginia/200 I ('12)
Foundry Lofts ('12)
1015 Half Street ('10)
Yards Park ('10)
Velocity Condos ('09)
Teague Park ('09)
909 New Jersey Ave. ('09)
55 M ('09)
100 M ('08)
Onyx ('08)
70/100 I ('08)
Nationals Park ('08)
Seniors Bldg Demo ('07)
400 M ('07)
Douglass Bridge Fix ('07)
US DOT HQ ('07)
20 M ('07)
Capper Seniors 1 ('06)
Capitol Hill Tower ('06)
Courtyard/Marriott ('06)
Marine Barracks ('04)
 
In early 2015, the new owners submitted for zoning review a revamped plan for the site, offering 440 residential units (both rental and condo) and over 60,000 square feet of retail. Construction began in February 2017. The condo building, now known as Envy (or eNvy), is the darker-shared building running to the right, along N Street.
  Nov. 3, 2019 - By fall 2019, both the Kelvin and Envy are pretty far along. When building the 55 M office building in 2007, Monument Realty excavated the entire block and built the garage and foundation of the northernmost part of the next phase of its development, which never happened. But that previously built foundation allowed the current development to erect the northern/1250 portion of the skeleton at the same time as foundation work continued on the southern/Envy portion.
1250 Half, Sliding from to May 2006 to November 2019
before
after

A similar angle to the above rendering, with work underway on the site wags once called Monument Valley.
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A 2018 rendering of the Envy condo building, looking west on N Street.
  Nov. 3, 2019 - Intentions declared, Pt. 1.
May 19, 2019 - Intentions declared, Pt. 2.
May 19, 2019 - Intentions declared, Pt. 3. (The sales office, in the ground floor of 20 M Street.)
Another rendering of the Envy condo building, seen looking north across N Street.
The same view as the above rendering, back in December 2006.
May 19, 2019 - The same location, with Envy well above ground, and with its structure built across a new opening for Cushing Street. Click to see all available photos of this location.
A drawing from the February 2015 zoning submission showing the frontage along Half Street, looking south toward Nats Park.
Jan. 1, 2005 - What the same frontage looked like a decade ago. These residences on the eastern side of Half Street between M and N were occupied until mid-2005, and were demolished in November of that year. This is the southern end of Half Street north of N; the blue building at far right was demolished as part of construction of Nats Park.
March 29, 2008 - The same location, a bit more than three years later, on the day of the first exhibition game played at Nationals Park.
  Nov. 3, 2019 - What that part of Half Street now looks like.
The view back up Half Street, from N Street, in February 2006. By April 2007, most of the buildings seen here were demolished. (02/06) Click to see all available photos of this location.
November 3, 2019 - The same location, slightly different. Click to see all available photos of this location.
 

Renderings from the original Monument Realty plans for the site as unveiled in 2006, but never built.
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