After
many weeks of
teasing, it's now pretty safe to say that the old trash transfer building at 900 New Jersey Ave. SE is really getting demolished. Click to embiggen:
And some before-and-nows show that the eventual new block of I Street between 2nd and New Jersey is starting to be more than just a dream:
If you haven't been following along, this site spent much of the 1900s as a trash transfer station, before the DC Department of Public Works turned it into an operations area for heavy trucks and plows. The block to the north is going to be developed by William C. Smith, starting with the
Park Chelsea apartment building, once some deep (deep!) utilities running below the site get relocated. The block between I and K is part of the
Capper/Carrollsburg Hope VI redevelopment footprint, and is slated to eventually have a large mixed-income apartment building, though no announcements have been made of when that might actually happen.
If you're already missing the trash transfer station {snort}, here's my galleries from back in June of its
interior and
exterior, as pre-demolition abatement was underway.