The Bike Estate - Providence Place

Rendering of the proposed Providence Place development

The Bike Estate scours local blogs and government websites for information about bike facilities in new, recently opened, or planned residential or commercial buildings. The following is recently-filed development applications with the D.C. Zoning Commission.

Progressive National Baptist Convention is the entity behind a unique and innovative residential development in an area of the District that typically is excluded from such change. Providence Place will be a five-story 100-unit building with one to four-bedroom units for residents making 60 percent of the area median income — or $65,520. Unique for construction in this area, the property will contain elements like bicycle parking and additional pedestrian amenities that help create links to the community. The property is currently an 18-space parking lot.

Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2018 with an anticipated completed date of March 2020.

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The apartment will contain secure indoor bicycle parking, as well as short-term exterior bicycle parking amenities to accommodate and encourage bicycle use. Adjacent to the Marvin Gaye Trail and Watts Branch Creek, the building will have to a partially below-grade parking facility with 34 long-term spaced dedicated to bikes and 48 vehicle parking spaces and associated loading facilities. Six (6) short-term bicycle parking spaces in public space, which meets or exceeds the amount of parking required by District code.

Areas of interest nearby.
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Thirty-five of the units will be replacement units for the Lincoln Heights and Richardson Dwellings properties located immediately north of the site. The building will be comprised of 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, and 4-bedroom units. Eight of the nine 3-bedroom units and all of the 4-bedroom units will be replacement units.

Rendering of Providence Place

The project includes a significant amount of public space improvements, including shade
trees and ground plane planting, decorative planters for seasonal display, street lights, and will be partially powered by solar panels. The All adjacent curb ramps and crosswalks will be improved to current DDOT accessibility standards if they do not currently comply.

Additional amenity spaces include primary and secondary residential lobbies, a business and fitness center, and a community room that will be made available to building residents and the broader community. The roof terrace on the lower northernmost roof level will made available to all of the building residents, and will provide spectacular views of the District’s skyline.