Last night, the Zoning Commission voted 5-0-0 to approve the second phase of the Art Place at Fort Totten planned unit development (Block B). As a reminder, below are the key features of the second phase and the phasing plan for the remainder of the project.
- Family Entertainment Zone (FEZ): Meow Wolf arts collective, children and adult programming
- 24,000 square foot Aldi grocery store
- Food Hall
- Explore! Children’s Museum
- Subsidized ground floor artist studios & maker spaces
- 270 apartments with subsidized artist housing throughout – mix of studios (20%); 1 bedrooms (40%); and 2 bedrooms (40%)
- Ground floor artist studios similar to Brookland Arts Walk
- Other cultural uses
- 35,000 square feet additional ground floor retail
- 4th Street closed to provide shared vehicular/pedestrian walkway
- Green roofs
- Plazas and dog run
Proposed phasing plan
- 1st quarter 2020: Block B construction begins, expected to take 30 months
- 3rd quarter 2022: Block B construction completed
- December 31, 2024: Developer will file PUD application for either Block C or Block D
- December 31, 2030: Developer will file PUD application for final block
Next Stop...Riggs Park 
Great to hear!
Also, I always forget that there is also a future Block C and Block D redevelopment. Great that there is one quality forward-thinking developer for all of these tracts of land…such a contrast to the Aventine.