Walmart has proposed *6* stores in Washington, DC. It's clear from the variety of plans that they are treating the city as a test site for urban concepts, to see which ones work and which ones don't. Each of the 6 proposed stores is a unique mix of urban/suburban.
This post contains renderings & plans of all 6, in order from most urban to least.
Here's a map of the store locations:
A couple of them were posted on the forum a few months ago (including the first), but there's a lot more info now than there was then.
Downtown location (aka "Gonzaga")
Totally mixed-use. Apartments above, parking underground, small liner shops along the street. Very impressive.
Fort Totten location
Also a very good mixed-use building. Not quite as dense as the first, and in a much more isolated neighborhood. This will be the largest building in the area.
Georgia Avenue location
Located in a rowhouse neighborhood that doesn't have Metro access and is therefore on the poorer end of things. Single-story building with no mixed-use, but oriented mainly to pedestrians. Parking underground.
Skyland Town Center location
Located in a suburbanish "town center" development on the east side of the Anacostia River, in a fairly poor/underserved area. Internally walkable with the rest of the town center, but poorly connected to surrounding neighborhoods. Parking on a deck above the store.
Capitol Gatewal location
A strip mall in a poor neighborhood. Surface parking, but they throw a bone to pedestrians by adding a second entrance along the sidewalk.
New York Avenue location
Totally suburban and car-oriented. No real provisions for pedestrians except those you'd see at any suburban strip mall.
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