This is excellent news. As noted, this and the redevelopment of the currently-vacant Cotton Annex building, as well as the relocation of the Spy Museum to L'Enfant Plaza will add considerably more activity outside of the normal business hours, when this part of DC is currently mostly vacant. Also, given the excellent access to transit at L'Enfant Plaza, this is exactly where additional residential development should be added.
Reporters Building to be Redeveloped as Residential
SWTLQTC
May 9, 2017
"Back in 2013, the National Capital Revitalization Corporation developed the SW Ecodistrict Initiative for a 110-acre area south of the National Mall and north of the Southwest freeway. One of the goals of the initiative was to create a sustainable mixed-use community by introducing residential and/or hospitality uses in the area, which has been dominated for decades by government agencies and other office users. Since then, Republic Properties has proposed residential uses for one of the planned buildings at The Portals and Douglas Development purchased the Cotton Annex on 12th Street, with plans to redevelop the historic building and adjacent parking lot."
http://www.swtlqtc.com/2017/05/repor...eloped-as.html