Wikipedia

Eisenhower East and Carlyle

Eisenhower East and Carlyle together form one of the most important commercial and high-density residential neighborhoods of Alexandria, Virginia, the location of many mixed-use developments, office buildings, and hotels.[1][2] Carlyle is contiguous with Eisenhower East, and is included in the same Eisenhower East Master Plan.[3]

The Carlyle neighborhood seen under construction in 2009
United States Patent and Trademark Office in Carlyle
National Science Foundation building under construction 2015
Hoffman Town Center in 2015. At left, the former Hoffman Center I, now the Carlyle Tower. At right, the former Hoffman Tower II, now The Foundry

Eisenhower East / Hoffman Center area

edit

The Hoffman Center, with around 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) of office space, was constructed between 1968 and 1972[4][5] Now a much larger complex known as the Hoffman Town Center, it includes:

  • The new home of the U.S. National Science Foundation, opened in 2017,[6] with about 2,100 employees[7]
  • The AMC Hoffman Town Center cinema multiplex. The northern edge of the AMC building was the location of the burial vault of one of the founding families of Alexandria, the West family.[8]
  • The Carlyle Tower, formerly named the Hoffman Tower I, 15 stories, built 2012–4, 348,000 sq ft (32,300 m2) offices[9]
  • The Foundry, formerly renovated and now containing 520 residential units and 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m2) of retail[10] Formerly known as "Hoffman Tower II", a 606,575 sq ft (56,352.7 m2) office tower owned by the U.S. General Services Administration and long occupied by the U.S. Department of Defense[11]
    • The Shops at Carlyle Tower, with several restaurants including Ted's Montana Grill and other businesses which started opening in 2023[7]
  • A multi-story, 2,800-vehicle parking garage[7]

Immediately to the north of Hoffman Town Center is Carlyle Crossing, including 210,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) of retail anchored by an 81,000 sq ft (7,500 m2) Wegmans supermarket.[7]

Other developments in the area are:

  • Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Integrated Command and Communications Center (MICC), opened 2023, 14 stories, 1400 employees. The MICC is the system's technology hub, including the data center, cybersecurity operations, bus and rail video teams, communications, and administrative support.[12]
  • Holiday Inn hotel, SW corner, Eisenhower Avenue and Stovall Street[7]

[13]

  • Parc Meridian at Eisenhower Station apartment building (750 Port Street, 24 stories)
  • Carlyle Place apartments (2251 Eisenhower Avenue, two towers, completed 2007, Collis and Kronstadt, architects)[14]
  • Meridian 2250 apartments (2250 Dock Lane, 26 stories, under construction as of April 2024)

There are plans under discussion as of June 2024 to continue development of the remaining blocks currently serving as surface parking lots.[15][13][16]

Former plans that did not come to fruition include a tower at the southwest corner of Eisenhower and Port which would have become, when completed, the tallest inside the Capital Beltway.[17][18]

Carlyle

edit
 
Map of Carlyle on public signpost, 2024

Carlyle is home to the United States Patent and Trademark Office with about 12,000 employees,[7] the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse,[19]

Eisenhower Statue

edit

At the east end of Carlyle at Eisenhower Avenue at Holland Drive, stood from 2004 to 2020 a statue of the former president in his army uniform by artist Michael Curtis,[20] erected to mark the official starting point of the national expressway system championed by Eisenhower as president.[21] It stood at the center of a traffic circle which has since been changed to a regular T-intersection.[22]

Parks

edit

Alexandria African American Heritage Park

edit

The Alexandria African American Heritage Park, donated to the city by Norfolk Southern in 1995, is located in the Eisenhower Valley, at the foot of the adjacent Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex. The 7.6-acre park is a satellite of the Alexandria Black History Museum, and was designed by landscape architectural firm EDAW. It contains sculptures by Jerome Meadows, a Washington, D.C.-based artist. The focal point of the park is a group of bronze trees titled Truths That Rise From the Roots Remembered, and other sculptures around the site further commemorate Alexandria's black history.[23] Included in the park are the remains of the Black Baptist Cemetery, which had been established in 1885 but was later abandoned;[24] 28 burials on the site are known, and six headstones have been reerected as memorials to those buried there.[25] A wetland area provides a home for a variety of wildlife.[23]

Hooff's Run, a tributary of Great Hunting Creek, runs through the park;[26] a bridge constructed by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in 1856 crosses the Run at the edge of the park, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[27]

Transit

edit

The area is served by the Eisenhower Avenue Washington Metro and the King Street station of the Washington Metro and the adjacent Alexandria station (officially called Alexandria Union Station) with Virginia Railway Express and Amtrak rail service and DASH (routes: OTC, 30, 31, 32, 33, 102) and WMATA Metrobus (routes: 28A, 29K, 29N, NH2, REX) service to the wider Washington metropolitan area.[28]

edit
  • Eisenhower East Plan (PDF). City of Alexandria, Virginia. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2024.

References

edit
  1. ^ "Eisenhower Valley – Alexandria Economic Development Partnership". alexecon.org. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  2. ^ "Eisenhower Avenue: The Vibrancy Might Take a Few Years". UrbanTurf. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  3. ^ Eisenhower East Plan (PDF). City of Alexandria, Virginia. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Eisenhower East Small Area Plan" (PDF). City of Alexandria, Virginia. February 2020.
  5. ^ Lindemon, Meredith (17 March 2023). "Carlyle Crossing to See 7 New Businesses Open". Northern Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  6. ^ Sernovitz, Daniel (24 August 2017). "National Science Foundation is relocating to its new Alexandria HQ. We take you inside". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Restaurants & Shopping Near Carlyle Coworking Workspace Alexandria VA". Cove. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  8. ^ R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc. prepared on behalf of Hoffman Management, Inc. and the City of Alexandria. "Excavations and the West Family Cemetery" (PDF). City of Alexandria, Virginia. Retrieved 23 June 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Building Statistics: Hoffman One Building, 2461 Eisenhower Ave Alexandria, VA" (PDF). PennState. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  10. ^ "The Foundry - 200 Stovall Street". studios.com. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Department of Defense renews lease for 606,575 square feet in Alexandria". Virginia Business. 14 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Metro and Virginia officials celebrate opening of Metro Building at Eisenhower in Alexandria, home of the new Metro Integrated Command and Communications Center". WMATA. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Alexandria considering big plans for properties next to Eisenhower Avenue Metro station". ALX Now. 18 April 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Carlyle Place". Paradigm Companies. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  15. ^ Brendel, Dan (12 January 2024). "Developer laying groundwork to go bigger in Alexandria's Eisenhower corridor". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  16. ^ "Hoffman / Eisenhower East Coordinated Development District (CDD) Planning Commission (PDF Attachment)". City of Alexandria. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  17. ^ "Beltway's tallest building to break ground in October". Washington Business Journal. August 25, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  18. ^ "Pipeline". UrbanTurf. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  19. ^ "Carlyle and Eisenhower – Alexandria VA Neighborhoods". visitalexandriava.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  20. ^ "General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Alexandria, VA". Public Art Archive. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  21. ^ "Ike is a Highway: The Eisenhower Statue in Alexandria, Va – Brady Carlson". bradycarlson.com. November 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  22. ^ "Alexandria, VA – Eisenhower – The Highway President". RoadsideAmerica.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  23. ^ a b alexandriava.gov/historic/blackhistory/default.aspx?id=37348
  24. ^ "GAZ9527". alexandriava.gov. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  25. ^ "Historic Cemeteries of Alexandria". alexandriava.gov. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  26. ^ "GAZ9528(2)". alexandriava.gov. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  27. ^ unknown. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Orange and Alexandria Railroad Hooff's Run Bridge" (PDF).[dead link] and Accompanying two photos
  28. ^ "Virginia Metrobus System Service" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eisenhower_East_and_Carlyle&oldid=1231103568"