Officials kicked off the residential conversion of the long-vacant Victory Center yesterday (Wednesday) with a symbolic wall demolition, as the site is expected to welcome hundreds of housing units along Eisenhower Avenue.
The project at 5001 Eisenhower Avenue by property owner Stonebridge, the City of Alexandria and Amazon’s Housing Fund promises to bring 377 housing units to the 9.73-acre Victory Center property, including committed affordable and workforce units.
A long-vacant office property along Eisenhower Avenue is slated for conversion into a 377-unit all-affordable apartment building.
The redevelopment of the 9.73-acre Victory Center at 5001 Eisenhower Avenue site was approved in late 2024. Now property owner Stonebridge, the City of Alexandria and Amazon’s Housing Fund have announced the “unprecedented” full conversion for the 11-story building, with completion estimated by 2027.
Land use attorney Kenneth Wire has seen six proposals for the redevelopment of the Victory Center come through in the last twenty years.
The latest one, which that would see the building converted into affordable housing while a neighboring lot is turned into market-rate housing, could be the one that finally overturns the Victory Center’s two-decade run of bad luck.
At a City Council meeting this week, more details emerged about plans to convert the Eisenhower Valley’s long-beleaguered Victory Center into a new bastion of affordable housing.
The developer, Stonebridge, proposes to convert the long-vacant office building and part of the massive parking lot into 825 mixed-income housing units.
After over two decades of sitting empty at 5001 Eisenhower Avenue, the Victory Center could be converted into housing.
The proposal comes as Alexandria has been seeing an increasing number of office buildings converted to residential use.
The big news this week was some favorite local restaurants and bars going away.
Both Mackie’s Bar and Grill and Elizabeth’s Counter are set to close in the next couple weeks. Owner Rob Krupicka is planning to replace the latter with a new comfort food restaurant called Railbird Kitchen sometime later this year, but the spot’s famed handmade donuts won’t be returning.
Developer Stonebridge has filed for plans to demolish the Victory Center (5001 Eisenhower Avenue) but is facing pushback from city staff that would rather see the existing building converted.
The Stonebridge proposal would see the long-vacant office building replaced with townhouses, similar to the new development just west of the building.
This week in Alexandria, some long-planned changes around town started to take shape.
The biggest is that the Victory Center’s days may well be numbered, with developer Stonebridge and city staff currently in back-and-forth discussions over whether the building should be entirely demolished or not.
After a long, troubled history: a final defeat nears for the Victory Center (5001 Eisenhower Avenue).
Stonebridge has submitted concepts to the city that would entail the demolition of the long-vacant Victory Center office building and converting the site into townhouses.
A new residential neighborhood could soon be replacing the long empty parking lot just east of the Victory Center on Eisenhower avenue.
The plan is to bring 139 new townhomes to 4901 Eisenhower Avenue on a 6.9 acre parcel that is currently a parking lot.
It was a cold and news-filled week in Alexandria.
It all started with the report of two public safety incidents over the weekend — a serious car crash in Old Town and another shooting in the West End.
