{"id":1004129550,"date":"2015-10-16T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004129550"},"modified":"2025-02-24T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:55:21","slug":"skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Skanska&#8217;s Big Plans on Pennsylvania Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.skanska.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skanska USA<\/a> will begin development of a 250,000-square-foot speculative Class A office and retail building at 2112 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., now that it has finalized a ground lease with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/\">George Washington University<\/a> for the $126 million project.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-story building, which will also have 10,000 square feet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004129553\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/2112pennsylvaniaave-exterior\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"775,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg?w=775\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1004129553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg?resize=300,297 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg?resize=768,761 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ground-floor retail, will be erected on a 25,000-square-foot parcel owned by GWU and known as Site 75A. In May 2014, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cities\/washington-dc\/george-washington-university-selects-skanska-usa-to-develop-square-75-a-3\/1004097142.html\">university selected Skanska USA<\/a> from among a group of bidders to construct a new trophy office building at the site. It is located five blocks from the White House and is one block from the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail station. The building, which is being designed by Gensler, is targeted for LEED Gold certification. It will have a glass curtain wall overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue to offer maximum views of the Washington Monument, Washington National Cathedral, and U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition of the existing building on the site will begin soon. The project is expected to be completed by early 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to Skanska\u2019s completion of this project, which will not only enhance the Pennsylvania Avenue edge of our campus, but will generate revenue for GW under our ground lease that we will use to support our academic and research missions,\u201d Lou Katz, GW executive vice president &amp; treasurer, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>Skanska has contracted with Cushman &amp; Wakefield to market the space for leasing, according to the Washington Business Journal. Skanska Executive Vice President Rob Ward told the business publication the speculative building should appeal to a range of smaller tenants. He also noted there is a lack of new office construction in neighborhood and that Pennsylvania Avenue will still attract tenants.<\/p>\n<p>It is Skanska\u2019s fourth development in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Other projects include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cities\/washington-dc\/skanksa-adds-to-d-c-s-office%20burder\/10041234532.html\">99M Street, SE,<\/a> an approximately 220,000-square-foot office building in the Capitol Riverfront submarket. The firm is investing about $116 million in the 11-story, Class A office building that will also have ground-floor retail. Another Class A mixed-use project, 88M at Tyber Place, will have 310,000 square feet of office and retail space at 88 M St., NE, in the NoMA neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Skanska USA Commercial Development also invests in and develops office and multifamily properties in Boston, Houston and Seattle. The firm has invested approximately $1 billion in nearly a dozen projects in its select markets. Skanska self-finances the majority of its projects and serves as construction manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global construction group will be erecting a trophy asset five blocks from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"featured_media":1004129553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21742,21747,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004129550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-latest","category-office","category-washington-dc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Skanska&#039;s Big Plans on Pennsylvania Avenue - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Skanska&#039;s Big Plans on Pennsylvania Avenue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The global construction group will be erecting a trophy asset five blocks from the White House.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-16T14:30:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-25T07:55:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/10\/2112PennsylvaniaAve-exterior.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"775\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gail Kalinoski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/skanskas-big-plans-on-pennsylvania-avenue\/\",\"name\":\"Skanska's Big Plans on Pennsylvania Avenue - 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