It's been about five weeks since my last update from the redevelopment site once occupied by the venerable Auburn Professional Building at 4915 Auburn Avenue in Bethesda. Work appears to still be in the excavation phase for the underground parking garage. 4909 Auburn Avenue, an 11-story apartment building, will house 167 residential units, ground-level retail/restaurant space, 3 levels of underground parking, and a pass-through that creates a new pedestrian connection between Imagination Stage and Battery Lane Urban Park. Potomac Development Group is the developer, BCT Design Group is the architect, and Donohoe is the construction contractor.
So Shalom Baranes is no longer the architect of record? That DC firm did the design that was approved.
ReplyDeleteDonohoe lists BCT Design Group as the architecture firm, but you are correct that Shalom Baranes did the original design when it was presented. I'm not sure why that has changed.
ReplyDeleteSome projects have both a conceptual design architect (often an out-of-town firm) and an architect of record (which is often a local firm). In this case Shalom Baranes is a local firm out of DC and BCT is out of Baltimore. Sounds like Donohoe shopped the project around to find a lower fee.
ReplyDeleteBoth are certainly high quality design firms.
Two questions, if you know ... Are 4909 Auburn and 4915 Auburn (and 4921 Auburn) all the same development project? And is 4909/15/21 Auburn expected to have rental apartments or condominium units for sale? I see BUP and Buzzbuzzhome describing the project as condos but Potomac Development Group describes it as apartments.
ReplyDeleteThanks!!!