From today's WBJ print edition (subscribers only): "D.C.-based Akridge closed on Aug. 27 its $46.5 million purchase of the
Metro bus garage site, which rival D.C.-based Monument Realty had intended to include in its opulent
Half Street mixed-use development just north of
Nationals Park." Akridge has hired
HOK (designers of the ballpark and the
Plaza on K),
Esocoff & Associates (
Onyx) and
StreetSense Inc. to design what will be a 700,000-sq-ft mixed use development on the west side of Half Street. WBJ says that Akridge is
hoping to break ground in 2010. (And, one small correction in the piece: the WMATA land that Monument gets the right to buy via the settlement of their lawsuit against Metro is not at the corner of South Capitol and M--which Monument already owns--but the parking lot just to the south, known as Nats lot M.)