Is the SW Waterfront DC's Harbor East?

Looks great!

I doubt it, but it's going to be a great development when the market picks up. There and at the stadium, we need more people living and more time for businesses to set up, but the potential is there.

It looks like a great development, although not quite as big as Harbor East, especially when you consider that Harbor East is supposedly only one-third built out.

I agree though, this waterfront area of DC has great potential and I'm really impressed by the kind of planning that's going on there and has already taken place.

These renderings seem to have taken more from the Inner Harbor than Harbor East, in my opinion. The first rendering, in particular, with the tall ship is reminiscent of Baltimore's Harbor. I would like to see Baltimore influenced by these project a little bit when we finally undertake the Inner Harbor portion of the Pratt Street redesign.

I know there are plans to develop the waterfront from Navy Yard all the way to Maine Avenue Fish Market. It will truly be awesome IF it all comes to fruition.

How long will it all take is the question. National Harbor took some 20 years just to get started.


Artists renderings sure look great, but I'll believe it when I see it.

indiethinker said:

I know there are plans to develop the waterfront from Navy Yard all the way to Maine Avenue Fish Market. It will truly be awesome IF it all comes to fruition.

How long will it all take is the question. National Harbor took some 20 years just to get started.


Artists renderings sure look great, but I'll believe it when I see it.

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The Baltimore/Washington area is fast becoming the mecca of harbors. lol

PeterSmith said:

These renderings seem to have taken more from the Inner Harbor than Harbor East, in my opinion. The first rendering, in particular, with the tall ship is reminiscent of Baltimore's Harbor.

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That first rendering reminds me of the National Harbor for some reason.

Looks nice.

B'moreOrioles said:

That first rendering reminds me of the National Harbor for some reason.

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Yeah. Replace the image of the Pride of Baltimore II in the National Harbor rendering with the image of the Amerigo Vespucci in the SW DC Harbor rendering, and they're basically clones.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Why is everything in D.C. so boxy? I know they're tring to maximize space but it got old a long time ago. I can't tell the difference anymore. Developers and designers really need to try some different geometric shapes. More curvilnear forms would really do wonders and I'm sure plenty of space left for whatever.

i think the plans look great! definently a mini harbor east for DC!

though i sort of agree with SS, a bit boxy throughout the city.
oh well! Still looks great, as does the rest of the city kay:

^^agreed!kay:

I like it ! I do ! . Isn't the area around it a little, how can I put it, not so nice ?

They can't build high, like in Baltimore, so to get the most sq ft out of the site, they build the biggest rectangle possible.

micrip said:

They can't build high, like in Baltimore, so to get the most sq ft out of the site, they build the biggest rectangle possible.

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They also want to get the most sq ft out of the lot because property values in DC are sky-high (not only because of the height limit, but because it's DC). However, DC will start to see more curvilinear buildings soon, I'm sure. It's only a matter of time.

^^the sooner, the better!kay:

Exrexnotex said:

I like it ! I do ! . Isn't the area around it a little, how can I put it, not so nice ?

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The area around there is perfectly fine. It's not particularly aesthetically pleasing, but there's nothing unsafe or unsound about it. It's just like the area around where the new stadium is. There was very little crime in that area of Southeast and Southwest, but it just wasn't pretty.

I like it too, I wonder if you can make it walking from the National Mall to the SW waterfront area if you come by metro from other places.