Shipping Container Apartments Coming to Brookland
✉️ Want to forward this article? Click here.
A single-family home currently sits on the property.
DC already has a shipping container restaurant. Now it looks like shipping container housing isn’t too far off.
The Washington Business Journal reports that Matthew Grace and Sean Joiner want to build a three-story, four-unit apartment building out of shipping containers. The duo is working with DC-based Travis Price Architects on the project. Joiner didn’t respond to UrbanTurf’s requests for comment.
There’s currently a single-family home at 3305 7th Street NE (map), the address for the proposed project. Some neighbors aren’t happy about the planned apartments, as Michael Neibauer noted in his post. In particular Gary Imhoff, who writes the local DC Watch newsletter, railed against the containers in a post titled “Packed in Containers” at the end of June:
“Prefab shipping container houses can be made to look nice in architect’s plans. So can trailer parks. But I suspect that a few decades of wear will quickly turn them into slums. This is the sort of housing development, along with micro apartments, that our city planners hope to stuff us in.”
Grace and Joiner reportedly hope to make an environmentally-friendly statement with the container homes by using recyclable materials. The plans have not yet been made publicly available by the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
See other articles related to: brookland, shipping container
This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.production.logicbrush.com/articles/blog/shipping_container_apartments_with_environmentally_friendly_focus_coming_to/8732.
Most Popular... This Week • Last 30 Days • Ever
Monument Realty and Mosaic Realty Partners redevelopment plans for a surface parking ... read »
Plans to convert a downtown DC office building into a large apartment project continu... read »
Another missing middle development has been proposed along Brookland's main throughfa... read »
Maybe it was falling interest rates or perhaps more homes hitting the market, but buy... read »
Kite House at The Parks at Walter Reed sold seven residences in September alone. The ... read »
- 235-Unit Development With Public Park Pitched For Downtown Bethesda Looks To Move Forward
- 400-Unit Office-To-Residential Conversion Pitched in DC's West End Heads To BZA
- From One Home to 9 Apartments Along Brookland's Main Drag
- September Surge? Home Sales Pick Up In DC Area, But It May Not Last
- A No Down Payment Assistance Program at Kite House, DC’s Best Selling Condominium
DC Real Estate Guides
Short guides to navigating the DC-area real estate market
We've collected all our helpful guides for buying, selling and renting in and around Washington, DC in one place. Start browsing below!
First-Timer Primers
Intro guides for first-time home buyers
Unique Spaces
Awesome and unusual real estate from across the DC Metro