The developer of a seven-story, 180-unit apartment building across the street from the Braddock Road Metro station is asking the city for an extension of its development special use permit.
West Street Acquisitions says a number of important steps have been made on the one-acre project at 727 N. West Street, which was denied by the City Council in March 2021 and then approved two months later. After some delays, including a legal battle with a neighbor citing city regulations prohibiting the Council from reviewing a denied application for a year, work on the four-year-old project has been slow, and the development special use permit is about to expire.
The Council denied the application because outreach with neighbors from the nearby Andrew Adkins development was deemed insufficient. Two months later, in May, the Council reversed that decision.
According to West Street Acquisitions:
(The) Applicant has already completed the offsite infrastructure construction including sanitary sewer upgrades and dry utility relocation, as well as the demolition and grading of the site for the proposed development,” West Street Acquisitions said in its application to the city. “Applicant has also applied for building permits associated with the project.
The Planning Commission will review the DSUP extension at its meeting on Wednesday, June 4.
